by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Aug 10, 2024 | Diplomacy, Political, Tunisia
Tunisia: Election Authority Approves Three Presidential Candidates Summary: On 10 August 2024, the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) announced that three of 17 candidates that submitted their candidacy for presidency were approved to continue their bids...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | May 1, 2024 | Political, Social, Tunisia
Tunisia: Opposition Bloc to Boycott Elections Unless “Conditions” Met Summary: On 30 April 2024, the head of the National Salvation Front (NSF) Ahmed Nejib Chebbi announced that the opposition bloc would boycott the upcoming presidential elections unless certain...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Apr 12, 2024 | Political, Security, Social, Tunisia
Tunisia: Self-Immolations Point to Growing Economic and Social Strain Summary: On 9 April 2024, a 22-year-old man in the village of Bouhajla in the governorate of Kairouan died after self-immolating near a police station following a dispute with local police...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Mar 27, 2024 | Legal, Political, Tunisia
Tunisia: Sentences in Chokri Belaid Case Leave Some Unsatisfied Summary: On 27 March 2024, a Tunisian prosecutor confirmed that six people had been charged in the 2013 assassination of political opposition leader Chokri Belaid, with four receiving the death penalty....
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Mar 9, 2024 | Economic, Political, Social, Tunisia
Tunisia: UGTT Makes Political Presence Felt with Election on Horizon Summary: On 2 March 2024, Tunisia’s public sector labor union (the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT)) held a large rally at the Kasbah in Tunis in an attempt to send a message regarding...
