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The threads we keep following, each one gathering every story and every debate we have published on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Europe 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.
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.
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 Security Council has told its peacekeeping force in Lebanon to stop operating on 31 December 2026. By mid-July 2026, beyond informal contacts among some members, it had still not discussed the three options its own Secretary-General put before it. 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.