By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on La Presse de Tunisie
Two new appointments were decided at Tunisia's Presidency of the Government by the head of government on 5 November 2026. The decision was published in the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic No. 108, issued on 6 November, according to La Presse de Tunisie.
Price cuts agreed with Tunisia’s Ministry of Trade have attracted customers to hypermarkets, where chicken was sold for 8.450 dinars and farmed fish for 18 dinars per kilogram. Further reductions are expected for other products, La Presse de Tunisie reports, noting increased footfall in the sections concerned.
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Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed says a kilogram of dates is sold by some farmers for no more than one dinar, compared with more than ten dinars in some markets. At a meeting on 6 November, he also denounced speculation and obstacles to access to fertilisers and seeds, according to the Tunisian Presidency.
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France supports revising the association agreement between Tunisia and the European Union, signed in 1995 and in force since 1998, to make it a more balanced partnership suited to current economic realities. French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed this to his Tunisian counterpart Mohamed Ali Nafti in a telephone call on 4 November 2026, according to La Presse de Tunisie.
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A magnitude-3 earthquake was recorded offshore on 4 November 2026 at 1.11pm, 23 kilometres south of Mahres, in Tunisia's Sfax Governorate. The epicentre was in the Gulf of Gabes, according to the National Institute of Meteorology.
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Offshore drilling targets 6,000 barrels a day in TunisiaOcean Oilfield has secured a contract from Tende Energy to mobilise its Ocean MVM rig on the Maâmoura permit, in the Gulf of Hammamet. The deviated well will target the Abiod reservoir, with potential production above 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to Ocean Oilfield and ATOG.
Morocco wants Moudawana reform voted through within two monthsThe Moroccan government plans to have the reform of the Family Code, known as the Moudawana, adopted within two months. Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi answered parliamentarians on the project this week, according to RFI.The week in Africa
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