Tunisia's trade deficit reached 14,957.6 million dinars over the first seven months of the year, against 12.57 billion at the end of June, on figures the statistics institute INS published on 11 August. Cumulatively the deficit is 25.7 percent wider than the 11.90 billion recorded for the same period of 2025. Exports rose 9.9 percent to 40,638.4 million dinars while imports rose faster, 13.7 percent to 55,596 million, and the cover ratio fell to 73.1 percent from 75.6 a year earlier.
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Webdo · Thursday, 13 August 2026
A restricted ministerial council chaired by head of government Sarra Zaâfrani Zenzri decided on Wednesday 12 August to sign two new concession contracts with the state company Tunisie Autoroutes: one for the Hammam Lif to Sousse stretch of the A1, whose current concession expires at the end of 2028, and one for the new A2 between Tunis and Jelma. The government justifies the choice by continuity of a service it calls strategic and by keeping the infrastructure under state control. The A2 runs 186 kilometres through Ben Arous, Zaghouan, Kairouan and Sidi Bouzid, is due for delivery in 2027 and costs around 1.7 billion dinars.
The association Aswat Nissa says 30 women were killed in Tunisia during 2025, one more than the year before, on a curve that runs from six cases in 2018 to 25 in 2023 and 29 in 2024. The association writes that the killings have continued into 2026 and speaks of the state's silence and its slowness in protecting women from violence. The figures land in the week the country marked seventy years since the Code of Personal Status was adopted on 13 August 1956.
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Babnet · Wednesday, 12 August 2026
The official gazette of Friday 14 August, issue 82, carries three presidential decrees dated 12 August. The first names seven members to the high authority of the Higher Council for Education and Teaching. The second makes Mohamed Ali Boughdiri the council's secretary general. The third convenes the council for its inaugural session on Monday 17 August. Boughdiri ran the education ministry from January 2023 until 1 April 2024, when Kais Saied ended his duties in an order that gave no reason. Before he entered government he was deputy secretary general of the UGTT with responsibility for the private sector. The council was organised by a decree-law of 16 September 2024.
