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Erin Clare Brown

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Elderly people wait to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at El Menzah sports hall in Tunisia's capital of Tunis. AFP
Tunisians to celebrate Eid under lockdown from Sunday

Prime minister says health system in danger of collapse as case numbers mount

MENAMay 07, 2021
Medical staff work inside an intensive care department for patients suffering from the coronavirus disease at a hospital in Ariana, Tunisia, April 26, 2021. Reuters
Could Tunisia make its own Covid-19 vaccines?

Fewer than 1% of Tunisians have had a single dose of coronavirus vaccine

MENAMay 04, 2021
A Tunisian prank show is making waves with a vaccine skit.
Tunisia’s Angelina Jolie-lookalike Covid-19 vaccine prank show angers WHO

World Health Organisation says programme will spread vaccine scepticism

MENAApril 29, 2021
Worshippers pray at Great Uqba Mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia, which draws the faithful from across the Middle East and North Africa during Ramadan. AFP
Tunisia's holy city of Kairouan waits anxiously for Ramadan visitors

Usual stream of visitors to historical Great Uqba Mosque was cut off by the pandemic last year

MENAApril 18, 2021
A man prays at a mosque on the first day of Ramadan in Tunis, Tunisia, May 17, 2018. Reuters.
Ramadan 2021 in Tunisia: Everything you need to know

What is it, what will be different this year and all the latest on the holy month in Tunisia

MENAApril 13, 2021
Haifa Triki, 27, is a payload specialist on the Challenge-1 satellite team. Erin Clare Brown / The National
Meet the young minds behind Tunisia's satellite success story

Pioneering space mission proves potential of country's young people amid youth unemployment crisis

MENAApril 07, 2021
Demonstrators stage a protest in the Tunisian capital Tunis, on February 6, 2021. Reuters
65 years after independence, Tunisians divided about their future

While some yearn for a return to the days of autocratic leaders, others push for more change towards democracy

MENAMarch 19, 2021
Artists Rym Hayouni performs her piece using e-waste she found along the beaches and streets of Tunis. The audience is encouraged to pile on scraps as Hayouni lies serenely under the rubble of our collective obsession with short-lived electronics.. Photo by Erin Clare Brown
How one Tunisian art exhibition explores the looming e-waste crisis

This site-specific project by four artists can be seen in the historic Dar Lasram, in the medina of Tunis

ArtMarch 18, 2021
A nurse holds a dose of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine in Tunisia's capital Tunis, at the start of the country's Covid-19 vaccination programme. AFP
'A message of hope': Tunisia begins Covid-19 vaccination campaign

Medical officials hope that president and prime minister trying to out-do each other will boost vaccine supplies

MENAMarch 13, 2021
Officials inspect boxes of Sputnik V vaccines at Tunis-Carthage airport on Tuesday. EPA / Mohamed Messara
First batch of Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Tunisia

The shipment comes as Tunisia eases lockdown restrictions, lifting a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine for all incoming travellers

MENAMarch 09, 2021
A mural in downtown Tunis in support of the #enazeda, or #metoo movement.
Facebook fostered Tunisia's #MeToo movement. Then the trolling started

A recent surge of online harassment has made Facebook increasingly dangerous for women

MENAMarch 08, 2021
Moutia, 21, said the violent protests were a way for him and his peers to have a voice and "to get out our anger," but that the harsh prison sentences handed down to youth are yet another way that those in power "rob us and murder our dreams." Erin Clare Brown / The National
Neglected neighbourhood fuels Tunisia's protest

On the fringes of the capital, there’s little hope for many when even education can’t guarantee a ticket to flee the dangerous streets, writes Erin Clare Brown from Tunis

MENAJanuary 28, 2021
Dozens of boys and young men joined the protests in Ettadhaman on Tuesday. Several protesters brought loaves of bread as a symbol of the poverty and hunger faced by many in Tunisia. Erin Clare Brown for The National
Tunisia Cabinet meets to confirm reshuffle as anger flares over protester death

Trade unions, political parties and activists are planning mass rallies on Tuesday as politicians meet to debate reshuffle amid a political crisis

January 26, 2021
Protesters and police square off on Avenue Habib Bourguiba on Tuesday. Erin Clare Brown / The National
Youths rage in Tunis against ‘broken’ political system

Hundreds of young Tunisians took to the streets for the sixth day in a row to protest a lack of economic opportunity

January 19, 2021
Overnight clashes between members of the Tunisian security forces and rioters following a protest in the working-class Ettadhamen neighbourhood on the edge of the capital Tunis. AFP
Revolution of the hungry: Tunisia protests reignite after Covid lockdown

A decade after transition to democracy, Tunisia's young population describe growing despair

MENAJanuary 18, 2021
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