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Tunisian President Kais Saied (R) receives Prime Minister-Designate Hichem Mechichi at the Carthage Palace on July 30. (Tunisian Presidency)

Tunisia’s PM-designate steers away from partisan cabinet formation

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A file picture Tunisian Prime Minister-Designate Hichem Mechichi. (AFP)

Tunisia’s prime minister-designate gives few clues about next cabinet

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Migrants from Tunisia and Lybia arrive onboard of an Italian Guardia Costiera (Coast Guard) boat in the Italian island of Lampedusa on August 1. (AFP)

Migrant boats deepen Tunisia’s political crisis

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Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi speaks at a press conference following the parliament’s plenary session in Tunis, July 30. (AFP)

Ghannouchi survives no-confidence vote but standing is shaken

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Tunisian president Kais Saied (R) appoints Interior Minister Hichem Mechichi as the country’s new prime minister, at the Carthage Palace, July 25. (AFP)

Saied picks interior minister as next PM, consolidates own power

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A file picture of Tunisian Foreign Minister Noureddine Erray, earlier this month, in Tunis. (AFP)

Tunisian foreign minister fired after short tenure

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A December 2019 file picture shows President Kais Saied speaking to a crowd in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid where he already warned of “plots” facing the country. (AFP)

Kais Saied’s cryptic messages highlight mounting tensions

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A file picture shows the leader of the Free Destourian Party (PDL) Abir Moussi (C) challenging the parliamentary speaker. (AFP)

Saied hints at dissolving Tunisian parliament as tensions escalate

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European tourists walk at the beach at a hotel on the Tunisian island of Djerba on July 18, 2020, a day after the arrival of the first charter flights to the country since the COVID-19 crisis erupted. (AFP)

Tunisia welcomes back tourists after pandemic, national carrier lags