The country faces both security and financial challenges but the more urgent question is whether it can repay its debt while still paying government employees, funding subsidies, and buying missiles
1.5 billion tourists over five continents raked $11tn into the global economy in 2024, surpassing pre-COVID levels. Meanwhile, North Africa broke records as a new hot-spot destination.
Hundreds are now stuck in Syria's Al-Hol camp. If they are allowed to return home, they will surely face stigmatization, but they could also be a useful intel resource for the state.
Serenaded in Beijing, whose yuan he wants, the Tunisian president has upended half a century of foreign policy to boost a flagging economy and avert unrest ahead of his re-election… But at what price?
Film director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative and unconventional docudrama is part-real, part-fiction. The Tunisian family it depicts is real, as is their pain, and it is scooping up many awards.
The countries of the Arab Maghreb Union have ambitious plans for 2024 as they try to return to the kind of robust expansion seen before inflation and global geopolitical turbulence hit.
A high-profile businessman seeking billions of dollars after a botched deal over the famous BFT bank was awarded a tiny fraction by an international panel, in a case with consequences for the country
With one of its best-known and most well-connected businessmen in prison after President Saied toughed up his crackdown on corruption, Tunisia is waiting to see what happens next
The Yemeni militant group is proving to be a stubborn adversary, and Trump doesn't want anything to detract from his visit to the Gulf next week, where he plans to make a 'big' announcement
China has been quietly working to rewrite the rules of global trade and finds itself in a strong position in the current trade war launched by Washington. A look around the world shows why.
Israel wants the total dismantlement and scrapping of all Iranian nuclear facilities, just like in Libya two decades ago. That is unrealistic for several reasons.
If history is any judge, Trump's tariffs and damaging actions towards US allies could speed up the emergence of a multipolar world, much like George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq