Tunisia

The conference provided an opportunity to engage some of the continent’s brightest legal minds in conversations organised across PALU’s three sections – Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL), Section on Business Law (SBL) and Section on Legal Practice (SLP).

Demonstrations and fighting broke out across Tunisia for about ten days in January 2018 in the most important flare-up of popular anger since the toppling of the Ben Ali regime seven years ago.

Kerkennah is a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès, around 20km away from the mainland city of Sfax. The two main islands are Chergui and Gharbi (Eastern and Western in Arabic).

Recent events have called into question Tunisia’s status as the “model” Arab uprising state in contrast to the “failed states” and/or “persistent authoritarianism” elsewhere in the region.[1] Most analyses still begin with reference to the country’s two largely successful rounds of elections, the

The 8th Pan African Congress held in Accra Ghana from 4 – 7 March, 2015, was a wakeup call to Africans interested in sustaining a wave of people-based Pan Africanism. A Pan Africanism of the people.

Thousands of young Tunisians drown trying to make their way to Europe, hoping that the West can offer a life that their own country cannot.

(Tunis, May 13, 2015) — Tunisian legislators should drop problematic provisions from a new security bill, 13 nongovernmental organizations said in a joint statement today.

Attacks on March 18 at the Bardo Museum in Tunis resulting in the deaths of 24 people have been credited to Islamic State.

QUESTION: What is your assessment of developments in Tunisia after nearly three years since the fall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali?