Over the next couple weeks, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - A woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Monday, wounding 15 people including 10 police officers in an explosion that breaks a period of calm after dozens ...

The 6th High-Level Africa Forum on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), held under the theme “25 Years of UNSCR 1325: Leveraging ...

TUNIS, Tunisia – A woman in Tunisia is hoping to become the first ever female mayor of the capital Tunis in Sunday's local elections. Souad Abderrahim, 54, was fielded as a candidate by Islamist party ...

Souad Abderrahim won over 26 municipal councillors against 22 for her rival. She had come in first in May’s municipal election with 33.8 per cent of the vote. The mayor of the capital also gets the ...

BREAST CASE: Amina Tyler fights oppression of women in the Arab world. “My body belongs to me,” the words say. Although she lives in a democracy, you’d hardly know it by the backlash Amina Tyler got ...

Outraged Tunisians took to the streets by the hundreds Tuesday, angrily protesting the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police officers – and then charged with public indecency when she ...

Ministers, diplomats, and activists from across Africa opened a two-day forum in Tunis on Tuesday to push a continent-wide strategy for putting women at the center of peace and security efforts. The ...

A Tunisian woman in traditional costumes is pictured during the celebration of the annual National Women's Day in Tunis, Tunisia, on Aug. 13, 2025. (Photo by Adel Ezzine/Xinhua) A Tunisian woman in ...

In the year since Tunisia touched off the Arab Spring, women have assumed a number of high-profile positions. As part of his Revolutionary Road... Tunisian Women Turn Revolution Into Opportunity Over ...