Presidential polls will be held in Tunisia on September 15, the North African country’s electoral body has said, rejecting calls to postpone the vote after the death of ailing leader Beji Caid Essebsi. “The office of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections has set the date of September 15 for ...
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader, died Thursday at the age of 92, his office said. The veteran politician, the oldest head of state after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, came to power in 2014, three years after the uprising which toppled longtime despot ...