The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

Tunisia’s interior minister has conceded that small groups of sub-Saharan migrants trying to enter the country are pushed back into the desert border areas

Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Prime Minister Najla Bouden without explanation this week. He immediately replaced her with former central bank executive Ahmed Hachani who is tasked with overcoming the "colossal" economic challenges the country faces.

With irregular migration to Europe at a seven-year high, exacerbating a problem that is destabilising the bloc, Brussels is renewing its efforts to close off the sea route from North Africa, said Vivian Yee in The New York Times.

Tunisia and Algeria are the latest countries struggling with intense wildfires amid soaring temperatures.

Farmers in northern Tunisia say conditions are getting much worse despite government efforts to combat climate change.

Opposition has kept up its demonstrations against what it calls a ‘coup’ against Tunisia’s democracy.

As blistering heatwave hits Tunisia, migrants from sub-Saharan African countries are enduring unbearable conditions.

Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism amid the fears of European leaders who are trying to stanch the numbers of people arriving at their shores

The EU has promised Tunisia $280m in aid. But on the country’s frontiers, refugees and migrants are still stranded.