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TUNIS (Reuters) - For Tunis resident Amel, her country's January revolution brought her personal freedom after two decades living in a repressive police state. But as a woman, she is fearful Tunisia's ...

The Tunisian Rugby Union has set up a long-term strategy to boost rugby women's sport. In fact, the union has given it utmost priority to the rugby seven's by providing all the possibilities to ...

From movies and jewellery to the cartoon Willis from Tunis, Tunisia’s women are using modern IP tools to protect ancient skills and challenge old inequalities, says Vera Albino of Inventa Each year, ...

Extracting oils from plants at the "Al Baraka" laboratory in Tbainia — FETHI BELAID On a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on ...

A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced four women to jail after they were convicted of buying endorsement signatures for a potential rival to President Kais Saied in the upcoming presidential elections.

Tunisian fisherwoman Sara Souissi, 43, defied men who believed she had no place at sea — Mohamed KHALIL Off a quiet Tunisian island, Sara Souissi readies her small fishing boat. As a woman in the male ...

A 19-year-old Tunisian girl was committed to a mental hospital by her parents after posting topless photos of herself in on a website for the Ukraine-based topless radical protest group FEMEN. Amina ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - When hundreds of Tunisians drove through the capital sounding their horns and waving scarves this week to celebrate the election victory of an Islamist party, there was little ...

Tunisia, the largely moderate North African country, has struggled to stymie the flow of hundreds of young men leaving to fight alongside rebels in Syria’s more than two-year-long, bloody civil war.

To mark Tunisia’s National Women’s Day, women wearing the traditional sefsari tunic paraded through the streets of the capital, Tunis, on Wednesday. Organised by the Turathna Association, the 10th ...

On a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on for their livelihoods, but droughts and rising temperatures are making it ever ...