BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - - Almost 50 people have been killed in the past 10 days in fighting between Libyan pro-government forces and Islamist groups in the second-largest city, Benghazi, medical personnel said on Wednesday. That brings...
TUNIS(AFP)- Moncef Marzouki and Beji Caid Essebsi will face off on Dec. 21 in Tunisia's second round of presidential voting to decide who leads the nation that sparked the Arab Spring. "Voting will take place on December 21," the head of the ISIE electoral organizing body, Chafik Sarsar, told...
Tunisia's Free Patriotic Union party – which has the third largest bloc in parliament – has said it would throw its weight behind presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party in a runoff vote slated for late December. "We call on supporters to vote for...
Tunis (AFP)- Tunisia’s first parliament since the 2011 revolution on Thursday elected veteran politician Mohamed Ennaceur, 80, of anti-Islamist party Nidaa Tounes as house speaker. Ennaceur, the sole candidate, won 174 votes from the 214 MPs in attendance. In a brief...
