Tunisia extends state of emergency for another two months
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Channel: CGTN Africa · 2015 · News & Politics
Tunisia has extended the ongoing state of emergency for another two months until February 21st 2016. The state of emergency imposed in November, following a suicide attack that killed 12 people, was set to expire today. In addition to the state of emergency, the authorities also imposed a curfew on Tunis and closed the border with Libya, where investigators believe the attack was planned.Tunisia has been plagued by Islamist violence since the 2011 overthrow of longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, with three IS-claimed attacks this year. The earlier attacks - at the capital's National Bardo Museum and on a hotel near the Mediterranean resort of Sousse - killed a total of 60 people, all but one of them were foreign tourists
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