Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew.

A short-lived martial law decree by South Korea's leader last week raised worries about budding authoritarianism around the world.

A French student detained for weeks in Tunisia has returned to Paris after weeks of top-level diplomatic discussions.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won re-election in a landslide victory after a campaign season that saw his opponents jailed alongside journalists, activists and attorneys.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won reelection in a landslide victory after a campaign that saw opponents jailed alongside journalists, activists and attorneys.

Tunisia's President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning another term in the country's presidential election Sunday.

Tunisia’s parliament has amended a law to strip power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied.

The presidential campaign season in Tunisia is officially underway a day after protesters took their anger to the streets of their capital.

Election officials in Tunisia have doubled down on their decision to deny accreditation to certain election observer groups.

A summit of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations has opened in Italy.

Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as authorities continued a wave of arrests targeting perceived critics of President Kais Saied's government.

Tensions in Tunisia have ratcheted up as demonstrators seeking better rights for migrants staged a sit-in before European Union headquarters, capping a week in which Tunisian authorities targeted migrant communities from the coast to the capital with arrests and the demolition of tent camps.

A court in Tunisia has sentenced former president Moncef Marzouki to eight years in prison in absentia as part of the country’s crackdown on opponents of President Kais Saied.

Tunisians head to vote in local elections on Sunday to populate a new second legislative chamber focused on economic development.

Family members of imprisoned dissidents in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations in their country.

Tunisia has announced it would reject an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the debt-ridden country patrol the Mediterranean Sea as migrant boat crossings spike to levels not seen in several years.

Tunisian President Kais Saied’s remarks that have been denounced as antisemitic have prompted an uproar on social media across the world.

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week.

European leaders and Tunisia’s president have announced progress in the building of hoped-for closer economic and trade relations and on measures to combat the often lethal smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea.

Tensions have spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city after three migrants were detained in the death of a local man.

Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea.

European leaders are holding out the promise of more than 1 billion euros in financial aid for Tunisia as well as investments in undersea data cables and renewable energy.

A court has sentenced moderate Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi to a year in prison for allegedly referring to police officers as tyrants in what his party said early Tuesday amounted to a sham trial.

Tunisia’s interior minister says a national guardsman behind an attack that killed five people intentionally targeted an ancient synagogue in a premeditated act.

The party of influential Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi says a Tunisian investigative judge has ordered him held in custody following his arrest on Monday.

Tunisia’s president has rejected accusations that he is stoking anti-Black racism.

Tunisia’s government is seeking to allay growing international concerns about a surge of discrimination against people from sub-Saharan Africa.

Hundreds of protesters in Tunisia's capital have taken to the streets to denounce racism and express solidarity towards migrants.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has accused Europe's top trade union official of interfering with the North African country's “internal affairs” and ordered her to leave the country within 24 hours.

Lawyers say Tunisian authorities have arrested the leader of the Ennahda opposition Islamist movement in a crackdown on rival politicians and critics of the North African country’s increasingly authoritarian president Kais Saied.

Voters in Tunisia have shunned parliamentary elections seen as an important test for their president and the country's troubled democracy.

Tunisia was once the Arab world’s hope for a new era of democracy.

Thousands of protesters angry at Tunisia’s economic crisis and the president’s increasingly authoritarian drift have marched through the capital.

Tunisia’s political crisis has brought the already struggling economy closer to collapse.

Supporters of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahda have demonstrated in front of the Justice Ministry in Tunis to denounce the arrest of one of its senior leaders.

Tunisian opposition figures have called for the president’s resignation after disastrous parliamentary elections in which less than 9% of voters cast ballots.

Tunisians voted for a new parliament to the backdrop of a dire economic crisis and concerns of democracy backsliding in the North African country — the cradle of Arab Spring protests a decade ago.

To the outside world, Saturday’s elections in Tunisia raise several red flags: Many opposition parties are boycotting them, foreign media are banned from talking to candidates and critics say it will be harder for women to compete.

Leaders of French-speaking countries are gathering on the Tunisian island off the Mediterranean coast for a summit amid a soaring cost-of-living crisis across Africa, Europe and the Middle East due to the war in Ukraine.

African heads of state, representatives of international organizations and private business leaders are in Tunisia for the eighth iteration of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

Tunisians have overwhelmingly approved a referendum on a new constitution that gives more powers to the country’s president.

Official preliminary results in Tunisia indicate 94.6% of voters cast in a referendum favor the new constitution proposed by Tunisian President Kais Saied.

Tunisians are heading to the polls to vote on a new constitution.

The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party has been freed after being questioned by the country’s counterterrorism unit on suspicion of money laundering and terrorism financing through an association charity.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has unveiled a new draft constitution that would bestow broad powers on the president and limit the powers of the prime minister and parliament.

A nationwide public sector strike in Tunisia is poised to paralyze land and air transportation and other vital activities with the North African nation already in the midst of a deteriorating economic crisis.

Tunisia's president has announced a plan to dissolve the country's main judiciary body due to suspicions of corruption and the mishandling of sensitive cases.

COVID-19 vaccination passes have become obligatory for Tunisians, who will now be asked for proof they have received both vaccine doses to enter public spaces or keep working at state institutions, universities and certain private businesses.

A 40-year-old Tunisian computer engineer turned corruption fighter will stand trial again in a military court Monday.

Tunisia has a new government after more than two months without one.

Thousands of Tunisians protested in Tunis and other cities this weekend in a show of support for President Kais Saied’s consolidation of power.

Tunisian President Kaïs Saied has issued presidential decrees bolstering the already near-total power he granted himself two months ago.

Protesters angry at the Tunisian president’s seizure of broad powers have faced off against his supporters in competing demonstrations in the North African nation's capital of Tunis.

Tunisia’s president has prolonged the special powers he granted himself a month ago when he began ruling by decree after firing the prime minister and freezing parliament.

The demand for life-saving medical oxygen has outstripped the supply in Tunisia as the North African country faces a surge of COVID-19 cases.

Tunisia remains in limbo one week after President Kais Saied fired the prime minister, froze parliament and took on executive powers.

Tunisia's leader is claiming that some desperate youths are being paid to try to leave Tunisia illegally for Europe, saying the goal is to damage the country from within and hurt its ties with European nations.

Tunisian authorities jailed an opposition lawmaker and charged four members of the powerful Islamist movement Ennahdha, according to local media.

Tunisia’s president is proposing that hundreds of tycoons suspected of embezzlement reach a deal with the state to finance public hospitals, schools and development projects in poor regions to avoid convictions.

Tunisian local media say prosecutors have opened investigations into alleged foreign campaign funding and anonymous donations to Islamist movement Ennahdha and two other political parties.

The leader of Tunisia’s Islamist party and speaker of parliament said Tuesday that his party is working to form a “national front.”.

Troops surrounded Tunisia’s parliament and blocked its speaker from entering after the president suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister and other top members of government.

Tunisia's president has fired the prime minister and frozen parliament's activities after violent demonstrations over the country's pandemic and economic situation.

Tunisian President Kais Saied, left, is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron for bilateral talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, June 22, 2020. Tunisian President Kais Saied is for a two-day visit in France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that Turkey's attitude in Libya is unacceptable" as France sees Ankara as an obstacle to securing a cease-fire in the conflict-torn country. Macron spoke at an evening news conference with Tunisian President Kais Saied in Paris. Macron urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to end his countrys actions in Libya.