Tunisia’s Firas Katoussi won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s taekwondo welterweight (-80kg) division in Paris on Friday, beating Iran’s Mehran Barkhordari who claimed silver. It is Tunisia’s first gold medal at the Olympics
Katoussi defeated Barkhordari in two rounds, scoring 4-2 5-1.
Italy’s Simone Alessio and Denmark’s Edi Hrnic won the bronze medals.
Libyan writer and politician Samir Shegwara has been arrested on national security charges after publishing documents that allegedly link Libya’
Drastic funding cuts at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), triggered by the Trump administration, have halted critical health programs
Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a Tunisian opposition figure arrested in February 2023 on state conspiracy charges, has begun a hunger strike,
According to reporting by Africa Intelligence, while France's army in Senegal is due to leave the country by
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