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The July 2026 heatwave brought rotating power cuts to Tunisia, and water rationing with them, because SONEDE's pumping stations run on the grid. The argument since is whether the heat created the electricity shortage or only exposed one that was already there.
The agriculture ministry put Tunisia's dams at 60 per cent in late June 2026 and called the level very reassuring. The taps stopped anyway: of the 608 citizen alerts the Tunisian Water Observatory logged in July, 549 were unannounced cuts.
Three years after the EU and Tunisia signed their migration memorandum, 105 million euros of European money has been mobilised for Tunisian border control, arrivals to Italy are down 97 percent on the European Commission's own measure, and 46 rights organisations say what that bought is violent interceptions, arbitrary detention, torture and collective expulsions.
Tunisia's health ministry counted 633 consultations and treatments linked to the heat wave between 1 July and 29 August 2026, and published no death toll. The Tunisian Organisation of Young Doctors estimated 150 to 200 deaths in public hospitals from the heat and the power cuts in a communiqué of 22 July, and says the number has risen since. The two sides are not counting the same thing, and neither has said how it counted.
In a first estimate, the National Institute of Statistics put Tunisia's growth at 2.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 against the same quarter of 2025, and services and agriculture carried most of it: industry as a whole managed 0.3 per cent and mining fell 9.6.
Article 15 of the 2026 finance law leaves the pay rise for 2026 to 2028 to a decree, in the private sector as well as the public one, and the general strike the UGTT called against it was never held.
Five years after Kais Saied invoked emergency powers and suspended parliament, Tunisia has a new constitution, and no national vote since has drawn a third of the electorate. Through the summer of 2026 the state could not keep the water and the electricity running.
Eight Tunisian prisons give a detainee no more than 2 square metres, the state is answering the overcrowding with new buildings and pardons, and the Tunisian League for Human Rights, which published that figure, says it is no longer let in.
Without an IMF programme, Tunisia repaid on 15 July 2026 what Kapitalis called its last big international eurobond, and now covers its budget from domestic banks and regional lenders, with remittances and tourism holding up the reserves: a model the government calls self-reliance and its critics call a debt that has only changed address.
Tunisia is borrowing 110 million euros abroad to re-equip a phosphate industry that produces well under half its installed capacity. Parliament approved the state guarantee on 28 July 2026, after a bonus dispute had stopped work at four mining towns in May and residents of Metlaoui had closed the roads over water cuts in July.
The public argument in Tunisia is about Decree-Law 54, but the two journalists sentenced to prison in 2026 were convicted under an older text, article 86 of the Telecommunications Code, and the promised amendment of 54 still has not reached a vote.
JDID Europe's rearmamentEurope has given itself until 2030 to be able to defend itself. The EU's credit line is open and paying out, and the military associations say their armies cannot recruit or keep enough people.
The Security Council has told its peacekeeping force in Lebanon to stop operating on 31 December 2026. By mid-July 2026, on Security Council Report's account, it had still not discussed the three options its own Secretary-General put before it, beyond informal contacts among some members. What replaces UNIFIL turns on two questions nobody has settled: whether Israeli troops leave the ground they hold, and whether Hizbullah gives up its weapons.
Israeli settlers and soldiers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023, and on B'Tselem's count one Israeli has been charged over such a killing in that time.
What decree 148 obliges Tunisian banks to do, who pays for it, and why nobody has been able to borrow yet.