[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A health emergency bill will be submitted soon to the House of People's Representatives (French: ARP), Minister in charge of Civil Service and Acting Justice Minister Hasna Ben Slimane said Sunday in Sfax.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The local disaster control committee in Mahdia, on Saturday, decided to decree a targeted lockdown from July 5 to 14.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The civil protection has recorded 132 fires that hit 465 hectares of farmland between June 1 and July 1, 2021, against 118 fires damaging 157 hectares of farmland during the same period last year, said its spok...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia, on Saturday, took delivery of 25,000 COVID-19 rapid tests and 30,000 RT-PCR test kits donated by Germany and South Korea, said Director of Public Facilities at the Health Ministry Naceur Somrani.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Transport and Logistics Moez Chakchouk said he will submit a detailed report to the Prime Minister about the epidemiological situation in Mahdia.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- El Kef logged three more COVID-19 deaths, the local health directorate said in its latest report.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Eight migrants preparing to cross land borders with Algeria were arrested on Friday by a joint patrol of the border intelligence brigade and the land border brigade of the National Guard of Bouchebka, governora...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A targeted lockdown was decreed Saturday in Nabeul by the local committee to fight natural disasters, Governor Mohamed Ridha Mlika told TAP.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Members of the Local Committee to Combat Disasters and Relief Organisation in the governorate of Bizerte called on the government and the Health Ministry to increase the number of medics and paramedics in the r...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Eighty-four irregular migrants of various nationalities whose boat capsized 28 km northeast of Zarzis, had been rescued by a national coast guard unit, spokesman for the National Defence Ministry Mohamed Zekri ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- COVID-19 claimed the lives of two people in the last 24 hours in the governorate of Sfax, bringing the death toll to 1,233.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Nineteen irregular migrants of various African nationalities whose boat capsized off Louata in the governorate of Sfax, had been rescued by a coast guard unit, the National Defence Ministry announced Saturday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The governorate of Sousse reported 5 COVID-related deaths and 617 additional infections in the past 24 hours from 1,418 conducted tests.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Health Ministry announced that the vaccination rollout rate with the first dose among those registered on the "Evax" platform stood at 45% on July 1.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A subsidy contract of over 1.6 million dinars aimed at financing the joint project "Artichoke" value chain in Bizerte, was signed on July 2, between the General Authority for Regional Development (CGDR) and the...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The International Finance Corporation will provide up to ?22 million in financing to the CHO Group (Groupe Oléicole Tunisien), an important IFC partner in Tunisia since 2015. The company will use the funds as ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia had logged 114 more COVID-19 fatalities on July 1st, pushing the death toll to 15,179, the Health Ministry said Friday evening.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The governorate of Sfax has recorded 2 cases of infection by the Delta Variant, Regional Director of Health, Jawher Mokni, told TAP on Friday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisian judoka Nihel Landolsi has secured her qualification for the Tokyo Olympics through her ranking at the World Ranking List (WRL).

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The health situation in Manouba is alarming, Minister of Women, Family and Elderly Affairs Imen Zahouani Houimel said at visit to hospitals and COVID-19 wards in the governorate Friday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Ministry of Trade and Export Development said Friday it is closely monitoring in coordination with the Ministry of Health data published on the non-compliance of Tunisian salt with health standards.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The incidence rate of COVID-19 in the governorate of Nabeul has recorded a sharp increase in the last 14 days with 403 infection cases per 100,000 inhabitants, director of preventive health Omar Sellimi told TA...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- (TAP) President of the Republic Kaïs Saïed received, on Friday at Carthage Palace, Argentine Minister of Foreign Relations, International Trade and Worship, Felipe Carlos Solá.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President of the Republic Kais Saied, on Friday, met with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi in Carthage.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Five people died of the coronavirus in Siliana in the last 24 hours, while 209 other people tested positive for the virus, among 475 tested.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Sidi Bouzid administered 27,183 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from March 13 to July 1, Local Coordinator of the vaccination campaign Rafik Nsibi told TAP. The number of second doses reached so far 11,072...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Commercial phosphate production by the Gafsa Phosphate Company (CPG) reached 1.27 million tonnes in the first half of 2021 against an initial forecast of 2.1 million tonnes, acting central sales director Lotfi ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Ministry of Health has pledged to simplify customs procedures relating to donations and in-kind support for the fight against COVID-19.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A donation of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses will be made shortly by the United States, the Presidency of the Republic announced Friday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Speaker of the House of People's Representatives (French: ARP) Rached Ghannouchi filed a complaint with the public prosecutor at the Tunis court of first instance against the Free Destourian Party ( PDL) bloc o...