The flaws in the health systems of some MENA countries such as Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, which were struggling with sinking economies and other challenges, were exposed by the pandemic.

The country's economy is witnessing deterioration as sources of income decline, unemployment rises to 18 percent and rising debt necessitates a loan from the IMF.

Jon Finer, the deputy national security advisor, and the top US diplomat for the Middle East, Joey Hood, traveled to Tunis and met both Saied and civil society leaders

The supplies that included respirators and oxygen cylinders were sent by two cargo planes.

Maher Zid and Mohamed Affes of Al-Karama have been placed in provisional detention in connection with a military investigation.

Tensions in Tunisia are set to boil over as the leader of Ennahda has warned that “if there is no agreement on the return of parliament, the Tunisian street will undoubtedly mobilize.”

Earlier, president Kais Saied has suspended parliament and sacked the prime minister in what opponents have labelled a coup.

French foreign minister Le Drian said it was "necessary to preserve calm, and the rule of law, and to allow a rapid return to a normal functioning of Tunisia's democratic institutions".

Saied, who under the constitution controls the armed forces, warned his opponents against taking up arms, threatening that if anyone "fires a single bullet, our forces will respond with a rain of bullets."

The president on Sunday evening announced that he had fired Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and that he was suspending parliament for 30 days

The country's ruling party, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha, slams the President Kais Saied’s decision to suspend the parliament as unconstitutional and a "state coup against the revolution".

Mohammed Khalil Jendoubi reached the final of the men’s Taekwondo 58kg category where he lost to the Italy’s Vito Dell’Aquila, who won the gold medal, and Tunisian won the silver medal.

With 1.4 daily deaths per 100,000 population, Tunisia is second-worst globally on this metric after Namibia

The North African country struggles to cope with the surge as hospitals fill up and vaccination can't keep up pace

The country has seen its economy contract by more than 8 percent last year, and its pile of debt has made it more worse

Tourists are flocking to Tunisia despite the country seeing its biggest surge in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths

They were stranded at sea for nearly a week after their boat broke down off Tunisia

When Covid-19 hit Tunisia hard last September, the germ of an idea was born. Too many patients were overwhelming the system, so why not take medical care directly to them?

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French Prime Minister Jean Castex calls reforms in Tunisia important for relations between two countries

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