Tunisia
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- Ute Junker
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I got lost in this ancient medina. It was magnificent
The alleyway hits a dead end. So does the next. And the next. Wandering deep into Tunis’ 7th-century medina and its souqs, I am lost. Blissfully lost.
- Belinda Jackson
The spectacular movie-star country that few Australians visit
It has played a starring role in some of the biggest movies of the past 30 years, but this fascinating country still flies under the radar.
- Belinda Jackson
This vibrant capital has some dazzling sights
With a rich and turbulent history, Tunis is flush with incredible protected ruins, bustling souks and beautiful coastal villages.
- Anthony Dennis
Dodging machetes and crossing sandstorms, ‘Hardest Geezer’ runs length of Africa
Russ Cook crossed 16 countries over the equivalent of 385 marathons – more than 16,300 kilometres – surviving machete-wielding villagers, desert sandstorms and crippling bouts of food poisoning.
- Max Stephens
Migrants doubled the Lampedusa population in one day. Now Italy is striking back
“We will decide who comes to the European Union, and under what circumstances,” the European Commission’s president has declared.
- Nicole Winfield, Lorne Cook and Angela Charlton
‘There is no other way’: Judges on hunger strike in fight for Tunisian democracy
Experts are not aware of judges in any other country having ever participated in such a hunger strike.
- Siobhán O'Grady and Mohamed Bliwa
Tunisia’s youth being paid to illegally migrate to Europe to harm ties: president
“There are people who hurt Tunisia. I ask myself how they could make 1500 youths leave,” President Kais Saied was heard saying in a video released by his office.
- Bouazza ben Bouazza
Tunisian president denies he staged a coup: ‘review your constitutional lessons’
Saied called on Tunisians to remain calm and not to respond to any provocations. He also urged people not to take to the streets.
- Alaa Swilam
'No party': Tunisia is preparing to have a non-political government
The country has struggled to revive its collapsed economy since a 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring.
- Tarek Amara