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Tunisia’s Five year old state of emergency has been extended by six-month, the Tunisian presidency announced on Friday.
The state of emergency was initially imposed in 2015 when an attack claimed by the Islamic State group occurred on a presidential guard bus.
President Kais Saied “decided on the six-month extension of the nationwide state of emergency, from December 26, 2020, to June 23, 2021,” a statement said.
This measure which has continuously been extended since late 2015 grants exceptional powers to the country’s security forces.
It also allows measures to “ensure the control of the press” and for strikes and meetings that “create disorder” to be banned.
In recent weeks, Tunisia has been experiencing political and social instability, along with protests in several regions.
The country faced an increase in jihadist activity after its 2011 revolution, with attacks killing dozens of security personnel, civilians and foreign tourists.
The 2015 attack in the capital Tunis killed 12 presidential guards and came after two other deadly attacks claimed by IS that year: one at the capital’s Bardo museum and another at the coastal resort of Sousse.
The interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday that a man of “extremist appearance” attempted to attack a police officer with a knife in the capital Tunis while yelling “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest in Arabic),
Last Sunday, officials said the decapitated body of a 20-year-old man had been found in the country’s central Kasserine region in a probable “terrorist” attack.
The mountainous central region is also a hideout for the Tunisian branch of jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), known as Okba Ibn Nafaa.
Alongside the state of emergency is a night-time curfew which is in place in Tunisia to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 126,000 people and killed over 4,300 in the country, according to health ministry figures.
Fraternity is a watchword for these unusually troubled times aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said in his Christmas message Friday. “At this moment in history, marked by the […]
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