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Tunisia

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When a beloved football club from Chebba, Tunisia was suspended from the country’s Premier League in October 2020, protests broke out around the city and its port.

TUNISIA/IMMIGRATION

Thousands of Tunisian football fans say they will migrate to Italy after their beloved club’s suspension

In northern Tunis, two police officers harassed a woman and tried to force her into an unmarked car. The image (right) shows passersby, who intervened, moving the woman away from the car. This is one of three recently reported cases of police brutality.

Tunis-based rights groups sound alarm over police violence against women

Large numbers of Tunisians aren’t respecting the measures put in place to try to curb the spread of coronavirus. (Photos and screengrabs from social media)

Coronavirus continues to spread in Tunisia, despite mosque and café closures

Screengrab of a video filmed on August 3, 2019 by an Ivorian migrant who says that he and his group were abandoned in the desert, near the Libyan border.

Final communication with Ivorian migrants trapped at the Tunisia-Libya border

Photos du nouveau cimetière des migrants à Zarzis, transmises à notre rédaction par Chaâla Madji.

Red Crescent volunteers in Tunisia work to bury migrants drowned at sea

Doctor Fatma M'rad spoke to the FRANCE 24 Observers about conditions in Tunisia's public hospitals.

Video: Tunisian doctors launch #ReportYourHospital campaign after 15 babies die

Photos of run-down Tunisian hospitals posted in the #BalanceTonHôpital Facebook group.

Tunisians denounce their failing hospitals on social media

The Soli & Green collective began replanting trees in the Kesra Forest in March 2019. (Photo: Soli & Green)

The tree-planting campaign in a Tunisian forest devastated by wildfires

Mourners surround the coffin of Falikou Coulibaly during a vigil at his home Dec. 26, 2018. (Photo: Ange Serisoka)

Ivorian man who spoke out against racist violence in Tunisia is murdered

Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, where a suicide attack took place on October 29, 2018. Photo published on Twiter by Matthew Cassel (@matthewcassel).

Suicide attack in Tunis: ‘The police were in a state of panic’

With his organization Tunisie Recyclage, Houssem Hamdi has swapped 21 tonnes of waste for school supplies. (Credit: Tunisie recyclage / Houssem Hamdi).

Tunisian NGO monetizes rubbish to buy kids’ backpacks

The “crazy train” finally came to a stop when the electricity was cut. (Screengrab from video)

'Crazy train' without conductor narrowly skirts disaster in Tunis

This video, which was posted on Facebook, shows a fisherman in Sousse letting a sea turtle free. (Screengrab)

Video: Tunisian fisherman saves a sea turtle from poachers

The Zimbabwean men’s rugby team slept outside on July 2 in Béja, Tunisia. (Photos: Twitter, Screengrabs)

Zimbabwean men’s rugby team slept in the street on tour

These screengrabs were taken from a video showing children being mistreated in a centre for autistic children in Ariana, a town north of Tunis. (Video posted on February 18, 2018 by the Tunisian website Essada.)

Video showing abuse of autistic children horrifies Tunisia

Reporter's notebook: Seven years after revolution, young Tunisians still want to leave

Employees at the Belvédère zoo in Tunis cut up a dead zebu in front of horrified visitors in this photo taken by our Observer, Mohamed Oussama, on January 3.

Tunis zookeepers kill and cut up a zebu, in front of visitors

Photos from stories on The Observers website between 2008 and 2012.

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Our Observer in Tunisia, Lina ben M'henni.

Observer profiles: Meet Lina Ben M’henni

Young people from Maâmoura pose with the boat that they made out of recycled plastic bottles. (Photo posted on Facebook)

Tunisia holds the world’s first race with boats made out of recycled materials

Screenshot of a video showing the protest on Sunday, June 11, in Tunis. Video: Fater Facebook page.

Tunisians protest for the right to eat, drink in public during Ramadan

The photo on the left shows Atef Jebali taking a break in October 2014. The photo on the right shows the plaque marking his grave in Italy. It reads, simply, “unknown male.”

ITALY - TUNISIA

The families of migrants lost at sea struggle to find and repatriate their bodies

Screengrab of a televised debate between two young people trained by Munathara.

The programme teaching Arabic speakers to debate

Protesters gather at Tunisian zoo after crocodile stoned to death

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