2021 in Tunisia

2021 in Tunisia
Events in the year 2021 in Tunisia.
Incumbents
President: Kais Saied
Prime Minister: Hichem Mechichi, Najla Bouden
President of the Assembly of the Representatives by the People: Rached Ghannouchi
Government: Mechichi Cabinet, Bouden Cabinet
Cabinet
This is an incomplete list of the Cabinet announced January 16, 2021.
Ministry of the Interior: Walid Dhabi :-Mechichi on Saturday named Walid Dhabi as the new interior minister replacing Taoufik Charfeddine, who is seen as close to President Kais said.
Ministry of Health: Hedi Khairi:-Hedi Khairi was named health minister following criticism over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with the official date .
Ministry of Justice: Youssef Zouaghi:-Mechichi appointed Youssef Zouaghi as justice minister, Sofien Ben Touns as energy minister and Oussama Kheriji as agriculture minister.
Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines: Sofien Ben Touns:-Coordinating ministry. Ministry of Regional Develope- ment and Planing. Team Members. Rached Ben Saleh. Team Leader, Director, MDRP. Sofiene Gaaloul.
Ministry of Agriculture: Oussama Kheriji:-Osama Kheriji has just been introduced for the post of Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries during the reshuffle announced
Ministry of the Environment (Tunisia): Chiheb Ben Ahmed:-Humoral and Cellular Immunogenicity of Six Different Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in Adults: A Comparative Study in Tunisia (North Africa). by. Melika Ben Ahmed.
Ministry of Culture (Tunisia): Youssef bin Ibrahim:-Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa. ... Today, Tunisia's culture and identity are rooted in this centuries-long
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia
January to April
January 16 – Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi appoints 12 new ministers.
January 17 – 2021 Tunisian protests: Thousands take to the streets of Tunis and Sousse as protests turn violent in response to economic hardship on the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring. Protesters shut down oil production in Tataouine.
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.
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.
March 9 – At least 39 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned when their boat capsizes off the Tunisian coast; 165 are rescued.
April 2 – A female suicide bomber kills herself and her baby during counter-terrorism operations in Kasserine Governorate. Two other Islamic extremists were killed in a separate operation.
May to August
July 25 – 2021 Tunisian political crisis
October
October 11 – Najla Bouden becomes Prime Minister of Tunisia, making her the first female prime minister both in Tunisia and the Arab world.
Sports
Deaths
5 January – Moncer Rouissi, politician (b. 1940).
22 January – Meherzia Labidi Maïza, 57, politician and translator, member of the Constituent Assembly (2011–2014) and Deputy (since 2014), COVID-19.
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.
29 January – Ahmed Achour, 75, composer and conductor.
3 February – Abdelkader Jerbi, film director.
7 February – Moufida Tlatli, 73, film director (The Silences of the Palace, The Season of Men), Minister of Culture (2011).
26 March – Saâdeddine Zmerli, 91, urologist and politician.
References
External links
Tunisian border traders, smugglers struggle to survive amid COVID (Al Jazeera, 24 January 2021)
2020s in Tunisia
Years of the 21st century in Tunisia
Tunisia
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