[CAF] Burkina Faso, playing at the Total Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations for the fourth time will take on North Africans Tunisia in the Group B opening match at the Stade Cheikha Ould Boidiya in Nouakchott on Monday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The exploitation of groundwater, including those of illegal wells, whose number exceeds 24 thousand, has increased by 126%, due to the lack of a forward-looking strategy to cope with the rising demand for irrig...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Saturday, February 13, 2021 will be the first day of the month of Rajab of the Hijri year 1442.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- TAP News Agency, on Thursday, signed a partnership agreement with the Tunisian Union of Community Media (French: UTMA), aimed at increasing cooperation between TAP, as a public news agency, and community media.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A ship carrying 8,700 tonnes of Ammonium nitrate is expected Friday in Tunisia. A national committee made up of various stakeholders will monitor the distribution of imported fertilisers, says Minister of Trade...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Fourteen banks have contributed to a syndicated foreign currency loan of $465 million, said the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Investment Support.In a statement issued Wednesday in Tunis, the ministry added t...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Central Bank of Tunisia sustained losses of nearly 170 million dinars. This amount represents the penalties that have not been imposed on banks, according to the annual report published Wednesday by the Cou...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Tunisian League of Human Rights (French: LTDH) said Wednesday it filed a complaint against the National Union of Internal Security Forces in Sfax.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The crisis caused by the cabinet reshuffle must be solved in accordance with the constitution rather than searching for «an impossible legal outcome or interpretations and Fatwas that transgress the provisions...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- "The Scientific Committee to Combat the Coronavirus proposed, during its meeting held on Tuesday, to extend the targeted lockdown till March 15," said Wednesday, Committee member Habib Ghedira.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Office in Zarzis Naoufel Tounsi said Wednesday that a request had been sent to the health ministry last January to ensure the vaccination of...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President of the Republic Kais Saied will hold a meeting Wednesday afternoon with MPs from various parliamentary opposition groups as well as those from the government, said Democratic Bloc MP Zouhaier Maghzaou...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Three COVID-19 fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours in Gabes governorate, pushing the death toll in the region to 255 since the outbreak of the pandemic.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Riyadh/Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi-led military coalition engaged in Yemen said on Sunday it had intercepted and destroyed two armed drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards southern Saudi Arabia.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- All forms of protests in the heath sector have been suspended, it was decided, following an agreement concluded on Tuesday at the end of a working session held between the government and the Tunisian General La...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania's "The Man Who Sold His Skin" has been selected in the Oscars' International Feature Film shortlist as announced Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Health Ministry on Tuesday reported 811 more infections with coronavirus recorded February 08 until 11 pm out of a total of 3,646 tests carried out.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Sixteen more COVID-19 cases were recorded in Sidi Bouzid on Monday, bringing to 4751 the total number of cases detected in the region since the spread of the pandemic, local health director Mohamed Zaher Ahmadi...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Secretary of State for Youth and Sports Sihem Ayadi said low female sports participation in Tunisia accounts for top women athletes seldom taking part in continental and international competitions.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The governorate of Ariana has just recorded 6 coronavirus-related deaths during the period from February 5 to 9.This takes the overall fatality numbers from the virus to 294 in the governorate, according to the...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Members of the House of People's Representatives (HPR), Tuesday, voted to extend the mission to deploy a military aviation unit in Mali and to send a helicopter unit to the Central African Republic (CAR) under ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Secretary of State for Youth and Sports Sihem Ayadi said 62 to 65 athletes will represent Tunisia at Tokyo Olympic Games set for next summer.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Othman Jerandi had a telephone conversation with Abdul Hamid Dbeibah who has just been elected Libyan Prime Minister, wishing him success in his new ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Government decree on the creation of the national agency for development and social integration was drafted, said Social Affairs Minister Mohamed Trabelsi. It is awaiting the approval of social partners and the...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- An agreement aimed at putting an end to the polluting discharges of the Tunisian Lubricants Company (SOTULUB) was signed Tuesday in Tunis between managing director of this company, Hamdi Guezguez and that of th...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Two more COVID-19 fatalities were reported on Monday in Jendouba governorate, taking the death toll in the region to 160, according to the latest figures released by the Jendouba Local Health Directorate.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisian and Moroccan startups will present, on February 10, innovative projects dealing with the environment and new technologies, to facilitate the management of municipalities, improve the daily life of citi...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- MPs at the House of People's Representatives (HPR) criticized, Tuesday, "the poor communication strategy adopted by the Health Ministry in its efforts to persuade Tunisians register for the vaccination campaign...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 423 thousand 101 persons have registered on the electronic platform dedicated to the national vaccination campaign against the coronavirus , on Tuesday, stated to TAP Head of the Steering Committee for the Nati...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Organisations, associations, trade unions and personalities from all over the world - especially from the Arab Maghreb and Europe - consider that it is now more necessary than ever to cancel Tunisia's debt to E...