Tunis, Jan 18, 2020 – A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12. An attack at the capital’s Bardo museum that March killed 21 foreign tourists and a security guard. In June 2015, 38 foreign tourists were killed in a shooting rampage at the coastal resort of Sousse. In February 2019, a Tunisian court sentenced seven to life imprisonment for the attacks on Bardo and Sousse. While the security situation has significantly improved since the 2015 attacks, Tunisia has maintained a state of emergency for the last four years.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 19, 2020 18:00 UTC