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Tunisian president and candidate for re-election Kais Saied joins his supporters after the announcement of the provisional results for the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Anis Mili)

Tunisia’s President Saied is poised to win a second term after cracking down on the opposition

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Annie Risemberg - Associated Press

A Tunisian voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Anis Mili)

Tunisia votes Sunday in its third presidential election since the Arab Spring

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Migrants rest during a gathering in Sfax, Tunisia's eastern coast, Friday, July 7, 2023. Tensions spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city this week after three migrants were detained in the death of a local man, and there were reports of retaliation against Black foreigners and accounts of mass expulsions and alleged assaults by security forces. (AP Photo)

At least 15 migrants died this week off Tunisia’s coast and at a desert border amid tensions

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Protesters face Tunisian police officers during a demonstration in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, July 25, 2021. Violent demonstrations broke out on Sunday in several Tunisian cities as protesters expressed anger at the deterioration of the country's health, economic and social situation. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

Tensions in Tunisia after president suspends parliament

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan.18, 2021 file photo, demonstrators face police officers during clashes in Ibn Khaldoun City near Tunis. A growing groundswell of youth unrest, tapping into a well of economic frustration, is sweeping Tunisia and worrying its leadership all the way to the top. It is, after all, the country that triggered 2011's Arab Spring revolutions. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

AP Explainer: Why are youth protests sweeping Tunisia?

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Children wave Tunisian flags as supporters of independent Tunisian Presidential candidate Kais Saied attend a rally on the last day of campaigning before the second round of the presidential elections, in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Tunisia polls suggest conservative professor wins election

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press

Tunisian police officers stands guard near an explosion site in Tunis, Thursday June 27, 2019. The Tunisian Interior ministry said one police officer has died in the suicide bombing targeting a police patrol in a busy commercial street in central Tunis. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi)

The Latest: Police officer dies in Tunisia suicide attack

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Security forces stand guard outside the conference center where Arab leaders will hold the 30th Arab League Summit which opens Sunday, in Tunis, Tunisia, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Tunisia spruces up, hopes for boost from Arab League summit

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press

Tunisian forensic experts work on the scene of an attack after a 30-year-old woman blew herself on the Habib Bourguiba avenue in Tunis, Tunisia, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. A suicide bomber blew herself up on a busy Tunis avenue on Monday afternoon, killing herself and wounding many others, Tunisia's TAP news agency reported. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi)

Female suicide bomber wounds 9 in Tunisia’s capital

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

People shelter from the gun fire outside a house, in El Aouija, outside Ben Guerdane, 650 km away from Tunis, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Tunisian security forces killed five heavily armed men in an hours-long firefight Wednesday after they crossed into the country from Libya with a larger group. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Tunisia: At least 45 dead in clashes near Libyan border

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid speaks with The Associated Press during an interview ahead of a two-day conference in Madrid on combating the type of terrorism targeting foreign tourists that has hit his country twice over the last year, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) ** FILE **

Explosion in Tunisia: Bus carrying presidential guards hit

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

Injured people are treated on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, Friday June 26, 2015. A young man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed at least 28 people at a Tunisian beach resort — one of three deadly attacks from Europe to the Middle East on Friday that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists. (Jawhara FM via AP)

Dozens killed in attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France

By Ben Wiacek and Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid, center, conforts a passenger injured in a train crash at Zaghwan hospital, northern Tunisia, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Habib Aissa) ** FILE **

Gunmen kill 27 in attack on Tunisian resort, officials say

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A man places a Tunisian flag onto a police car as a policeman stands guard during a demonstration two days after gunmen attacked the museum and killed scores of people in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) ** FILE **

Tunisian train hits truck blocking tracks, 17 dead

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Tunisian police officers gather at the entrance of the morgue of the Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. The radical Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack on a famed Tunis museum that left 23 people dead. (AP Photo / Michel Euler)

Tunisian official: 2 gunmen trained in Libya before attack

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

People walk by as as a police officer guards the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. Tunisian security forces arrested nine people linked to the deadly attack on the National Bardo Museum that left scores dead and wounded and threatened the country's fledgling democracy and struggling tourism industry, the president's office said Thursday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Terror attack in Tunisia a fresh blow to tourism industry

By Beth J. Harpaz - Associated Press

Star Wars fans wearing stormtrooper costumes parade along Tunis’ stately, tree-lined Bourguiba Avenue, in Tunisia, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. The empire was not striking back against the poster child for Arab democracy — just an innovative campaign to encourage tourists to return to this sunny desert-and-beach nation in North Africa. &quot;We came here to Tunis to help save the Star Wars sites in Matmata and Tozeur and convince people to return to Tunisia,&quot; said Ingo Kaiser, head of a Star Wars fan club in Europe, referring to the movie sets that are slowly being covered up by sand in the Tunisian desert. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine)

Tunisia turns to Star Wars to boost tourism

By PAUL SCHEMM and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press