The Tunisian Human Rights League said prosecutors have issued detention warrants against several people arrested after a 19 September march demanding the release of detained Soumoud flotilla organisers. Those held include students, civil society activists, a doctor and a minor, according to their defence committee. Rights groups say the case has widened well beyond the flotilla detainees it began with.
The opposition leader's lawyers say a court has scheduled a hearing before the legal deadline for her to appeal a separate ruling has even expired, calling it a procedural violation. Moussi began an open-ended hunger strike on 23 September over what her party calls the accumulation of such violations during more than two years in detention.
Meeting the head of government and the central bank governor at Carthage Palace, President Kaïs Saïed called for a stronger role for banks in backing the economy, easier access to credit, and tighter action against corruption. He also urged cuts to imports to curb what he called an excessive rise in prices, and said justice in how wealth is shared must come before wealth is created.
Spain's four largest agricultural organisations, ASAJA, COAG, UPA and Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias, jointly called on Madrid to tighten traceability controls on olive oil imports, targeting a customs regime that let Tunisian oil enter and be re-exported duty-free. The share of Tunisian oil imported under that regime rose from 61.6 percent of 2025's total to 76.3 percent between January and April this year, according to Spanish press figures. Andalusia has already asked Madrid to seek an EU suspension of the mechanism.
The central bank (BCT) published circular 2026-10 on 25 September, replacing rules that had been unchanged since 2018 for mobile payment operators. Each payment institution must now have an annual cybersecurity audit carried out by a firm certified by the national cybersecurity agency, and set up its own audit and risk committee. The new rules also widen what payment accounts can do, adding direct debits and remote payments. They take effect three months after publication.
At a Saturday workshop on Tunisia's social security system, organised by the UGTT labour union, social security specialist and CNSS board member Hedi Dahmane said the three main funds' cumulative deficit is nearing 7 billion dinars. He said the ratio of active contributors to each retiree has fallen from 8.3 to 2.3, and is projected to reach 1.1 by 2031. About 2.5 million informal-economy workers remain outside the system. Dahmane traced the funds' troubles back to 1993, saying only ad-hoc fixes have followed since, not structural reform.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi outlined a proposal at the UN General Assembly under which Iran would reopen the strait on day six if the US lifts its naval blockade and oil sanctions and backs a ceasefire, with talks on a final deal starting on day seven. The offer closely mirrors a June memorandum of understanding but on a faster timetable. Washington has not confirmed acceptance, calling talks with Tehran "positive and constructive".
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US and China agreed to extend their trade truce, due to expire in November, to 10 January. Tariffs, Chinese purchases of US goods, rare-earth supplies and technology restrictions remain unresolved. Xi urged Washington to handle Taiwan cautiously and reiterated Beijing's opposition to independence for the island; no change in the US position was announced.
President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed the 28 November legislative vote will go ahead despite serious doubts inside his own Fatah movement, which has not faced an election since Hamas won in 2006 and took control of Gaza. Israel has refused to let ballot boxes, papers and ink into Gaza, nearly two million Palestinians there remain displaced, and Palestinians in East Jerusalem would need Israeli permission to take part. Candidate registration was due to open on 26 September.
EU governments agreed to release the €6.6 billion from the European Peace Facility that Hungary had vetoed since spring 2023. Of the total, 900 million euros goes to the EU's military training mission for Ukraine, 1 billion euros funds joint equipment purchases, and 4.7 billion euros reimburses member states that already sent their own military aid.
Brussels confirmed that Prime Minister Péter Magyar's government, in office since April, will take only 5.4 billion euros of the 16.4 billion euros originally allocated to Hungary under the EU's SAFE defence loan programme. Magyar had asked to reassess the deal over alleged corruption risks linked to the previous Orbán government.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine's $27 billion defence funding gap is mostly for drones and missiles, with about a third needed specifically for drones for January to March. He said Ukraine must place and pay for those orders in October and November or face serious shortages this winter, and that talks with the EU, the IMF and private financial groups have had a positive response.
A drone struck a 16-storey apartment block in Kyiv's Pecherskyi district overnight, killing a 14-year-old boy and eventually wounding 20 people as the barrage continued into the morning. Russia launched nearly 300 drones at Ukraine overnight, with buildings also damaged in three other districts of the capital.