Tunisian mayor detained after fruit seller suicide
Tunisia's interior ministry said Dridi, the fruit seller, had faced "serious family problems", claims his brother rejected in an interview on local radio on Monday. The protests come amid brewing social discontent in the North African country of 12 million people, the torchbearer of the pro-democracy Arab Spring uprisings that...
Tunisia ex-PM Hamadi Jebali arrested: lawyer
Tunisian police on Thursday arrested former prime minister Hamadi Jebali, an ex-senior figure in the Ennahdha party which is the nemesis of current President Kais Saied, Jebali's lawyer said. He could not say why Jebali was detained. For more than a month, Jebali has been under investigation over activities at...


