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06.07.2021 / 12:19

Hospitals in Tunisia struggle with Covid 'tsunami'

Tunisian hospitals are battling to keep operating as the number of people dying with Covid-19 spikes and bodies are left in rooms because mortuaries are running at full capacity.

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Tunisia to reopen economy despite hospital strain

TUNIS – Tunisian authorities plan to reopen the economy next week amid public pushback against virus restrictions, even as the country's hospitals are struggling for enough oxygen to treat a persistently high number of COVID-19 patients.

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Tunisia receives first batch of coronavirus vaccines

TUNIS – Tunisia received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines on Tuesday — 30,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V — and will start inoculations on Saturday.

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Poverty and hopelessness beget violence in Tunisia's suburbs

TUNIS – Protests have swept towns and cities throughout Tunisia for a week, often turning to violence as demonstrators denounce what they say are broken promises from the government, which hasn’t been able to turn around an economy on the verge of bankruptcy. Many protesters are disenfranchised young people, a third of whom are unemployed, taking their voices to the street after being left behind by the country’s leadership.

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Outreach by Tunisian leaders fails to quell youth unrest

TUNIS – Tunisian youth clashed with police overnight, maintaining their protests and riots over economic difficulties despite efforts by the president and the prime minister to calm tensions. "Your voice is heard, and your anger is legitimate, and it is my role and the role of the government to work to realize your demands and to make the dream of Tunisia to become true,” Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi appealed to the protesters on national television Tuesday night.

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Swiss to lift freeze on millions linked to ex-Tunisia leader

GENEVA – Swiss authorities are preparing to lift a freeze on tens of millions of dollars’ worth of assets linked to former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a decade after the longtime autocrat was driven from power in an uprising that set off the so-called “Arab Spring” movement.The release that could benefit relatives of Ben Ali, who fled with his family to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and died in 2019, has drawn the fury of advocacy groups in Tunisia who say the stash in Swiss banks should go to the Tunisian people.The assets, totaling 60 million Swiss francs at the time (about $67 million today), were frozen for a maximum of 10 years as part of a Swiss government order that targeted the funds of Ben Ali and nearly 50 of his relatives.

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Somber Tunisia marks 10 years since revolution in lockdown

TUNIS – Tunisia on Thursday commemorates the 10th anniversary since the flight into exile of iron-fisted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, pushed from power in a popular revolt that foreshadowed strife and civil war in the region, known as the Arab Spring. But there will be no festive celebrations marking the revolution in this North African nation, which was ordered into lockdown to contain the coronavirus.The tree-lined Avenue Bourguiba, the main artery in the capital city of Tunis, which became a center of the uprising, may well be deserted if citizens respect orders to stay home.

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AP PHOTOS: Tunisian revolution's victims plea for help

TUNIS – Some lost a leg, some gaze out from permanently scarred faces, others live forever bound to a wheelchair. All these men were damaged in Tunisia’s democratic uprising 10 years ago, and they are begging the government to recognize them as official victims of the revolution.As Tunisia this week marks the 10th anniversary of the revolt that unleashed the Arab Spring, those injured in the tumult feel disappointed and marginalized.Since mid-December, they have been holding a sit-in at the office of the Agency for the Revolutionary Martyrs and Wounded, demanding recognition.

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Nostalgia for old era challenges Tunisia’s democratic gains

MONASTIR – Flanked by columns of private security, Tunisian lawmaker Abir Moussi recently swept onto a stage to address an adoring crowd at a rally filled with symbols evoking the North African country’s past.Since winning a parliamentary seat in 2019, Moussi has become one of the country’s most popular — and most controversial — politicians, riding a wave of nostalgia for a more stable and prosperous time, just as Tunisia marks 10 years since protesters overthrew autocratic former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.Moussi, a lawyer and former official in Ben Ali’s ruling party, freely stokes that yearning and purports to offer a way back, telling the crowd in the coastal town of Monastir on a recent afternoon that "Tunisia is bleeding, that

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4 pregnant women among 20 migrants dead in Tunisia sinking

TUNIS – Four pregnant women were among 20 migrants whose bodies were found off Tunisia's coast after their smuggling boat sank, Tunisian authorities said Friday, as search efforts continued for 13 others believed missing.Nineteen of the 20 migrants who died in Thursday’s sinking were women, according to Mourad Torki, the court spokesman for the Sfax region in central Tunisia.Coast guard officials and local fishermen retrieved the bodies and brought them to shore, and transferred them in white body bags to a nearby hospital where autopsies were carried out.Four migrants were rescued, Torki said: One remained under medical supervision Friday and another fled the hospital.The boat, overloaded and in poor condition, was carrying 37 people —

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20 migrants dead off Tunisia after boat sinks, more missing

TUNIS – About 20 African migrants were found dead Thursday after their smuggling boat, which was trying to reach Europe, sank in the Mediterranean Sea, Tunisian authorities said.

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Tunisia region at heart of revolution waits to reap rewards

TUNIS – Tunisia on Thursday marked 10 years since a local fruit and vegetable seller set himself ablaze in protest after police took his cart, an act that enraged the country and snowballed into the revolution that toppled the North African nation's autocratic leader months later and triggered the Arab Spring.The economically troubled region of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia where the self-immolation took place is still waiting — a decade later — to reap rewards from the uprisingThe gesture of despair on Dec. 17, 2010 by Mohamed Bouazizi, who later died of his burns, triggered riots across the country that ended with the downfall the following January of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

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Self-immolation persists as grim form of protest in Tunisia

KASSERINE – In his old life, Hosni Kalaia remembers strolling the streets of his hometown of Kasserine in central Tunisia with confidence. He flashed his heavy gold bracelets and rings, and puffed out his chest, broad and sculptured from regular workouts.Today, Kalaia hides his face from the world behind dark sunglasses and beneath a woolen hat.

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Tunisia terror massacre survivors 'forgotten about' and still live with daily trauma

Survivors of the Tunisia terror attack say they were forgotten about “as soon as they stepped off the plane”.

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Granny, 62, weds Tunisian toyboy, 26, after first mistaking him for someone else

A granny has married a man 37 years her junior despite first mistaking him for someone else.

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UN Security Council seeks to get past US-China spat on coronavirus

Tunisia circulated a resolution among the 10 rotating members of the Security Council that expresses concern about the outbreak, supports UN chief's appeal for a global cease-fire, and calls the pandemic 'a threat to humanity and to international peace and security'

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