2021 in Tunisia
Incumbents
- President: Kais Saied
- Prime Minister: Hichem Mechichi
- President of the Assembly of the Representatives by the People: Rached Ghannouchi
Cabinet
This is an incomplete list of the Cabinet announced January 16, 2021.[1]
- Ministry of the Interior: Walid Dhabi
- Ministry of Health: Hedi Khairi
- Ministry of Justice: Youssef Zouaghi
- Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines: Sofien Ben Touns
- Ministry of Agriculture: Oussama Kheriji
- Ministry of the Environment (Tunisia): Chiheb Ben Ahmed
- Ministry of Culture (Tunisia): Youssef bin Ibrahim
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia
- January 16 – Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi appointes 12 new ministers.[1]
- January 17 – 2021 Tunisian protests: Thousands take to the streets of Tunis and Sousse as protests turn violent because of economic hardship on the 10th anniversay of the Arab Spring.[2] Protesters shut down oil production in Tataouine.[3]
- January 20 – Young people clash with police for the fifth straight night. “Your voice is heard, and your anger is legitimate, and it is my role and the role of the government to work to realize your demands and to make the dream of Tunisia to become true,” Prime Minister Mechichi said in a fruitless attempt to calm things down.[4]
- February 6 – Hundreds of protesters backed by the million-member UGTT union defy government orders to rally in Tunis on the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Chokri Belaid.[5]
Deaths
- 5 January – Moncer Rouissi, politician (b. 1940).[6]
- 22 January – Meherzia Labidi Maïza, 57, politician and translator, member of the Constituent Assembly (2011–2014) and Deputy (since 2014), COVID-19.[7]
- 28 January – Chedly Ayari, 87, economist and politician, President of the Central Bank of Tunisia (2012–2018), Minister of Finance (1972–1974) and Education (1970–1971), COVID-19.[8]
- 29 January – Ahmed Achour, 75, composer and conductor.[9]
- 3 February – Abdelkader Jerbi, film director.[10]
References
- "Tunisian PM appoints new ministers in cabinet reshuffle". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- "Protests erupt in Tunisian cities amid anger over poor economy". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. January 17, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
- "Tunisia protesters shut down main oil production site in south". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. January 17, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
- "Outreach by Tunisian leaders fails to quell youth unrest". AP NEWS. 20 January 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- "Tunisia demonstrators defy lockdown to protest police brutality". msn.com. Al Jazeera English. Reuters. February 6, 2021. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
- Yerhamou, Allah (5 January 2021). "Le sociologue et ancien ministre Moncer Rouissi est décédé" [The sociologist and former minister Moncer Rouissi is deceased]. Leaders (in French). Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- Meherzia Laâbidi décédée après une longue lutte contre le Covid-19 (in French)
- Décès de l’ancien ministre et gouverneur de la BCT Chedly Ayari (in French)
- Le chef d’orchestre et compositeur Ahmed Achour est décédé à l’âge de 75 ans (in French)
- Tunisie : Décès du réalisateur Abdelkader Jerbi (in French)
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