Global Sumud Flotilla activists say they were beaten by Tunisian police after being blocked from Sidi Bou Said port.
Nigeria handed nervy ending by Tunisia but hold on to become second team to reach 2025 Africa Cup of Nations knockouts.
Saturday’s AFCON showdown between Nigeria and Tunisia could potentially decide who finishes top of Group C.
Decades after the passing of the UN convention on the elimination of discrimination, systemic racism is still rampant.
The uprisings did not collapse into irrelevance. They transformed how millions understood citizenship and dignity.
Fifteen years on, repression is deeper, dissent is criminalised, but democracy is still the public demand.
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia 15 years ago, after Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself triggering unrest.
Fifteen years after revolution took hold, little remains of the hopes that ignited a region.
On December 17, 2010, Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, triggering protests across the Arab world.
Dozens of opposition figures being targeted in nation once seen as beacon for democracy after sparking the Arab Spring.
![Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/108473126.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
