It is already midnight, here is the summary of the most important information that marked the day of March 5, 2025.
Phosphate: the government reveals its 2025-2030 plan
The head of government, Kamel Madouri, chaired today on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at the government palace at the Kasbah, a limited ministerial council devoted to the examination of the program to develop the production, transport and transformation of phosphate for the period 2025-2030, as well as to the current situation of the Tunisian chemical group and to his action plan for the same period.
Rejection of Mourad Zeghidi’s release request
In a Facebook publication of March 5, 2025, activist and activist Khaled Zeghidi announced that Tunisian justice had rejected the request for the release of his cousin, journalist Mourad Zeghidi. As a reminder, Mourad Zeghidi was arrested on May 11, 2024 and prosecuted under the liberticide decree n ° 54.
The SNJT publishes an orientation document on the media coverage of the trials
The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) published, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, an orientation document on the media coverage of the trials, in order to guide journalists in monitoring the conspiracy case and other potential trials in Tunisia. This document recalls the fundamental principles underlying the profession and the social function of journalists, as expressed in the union charter. Among these principles, we find:
Research of the truth: the journalist undertakes to seek the truth and to transmit it to the public, in compliance with the right to information.
Freedom of the press: The journalist defends the freedom of the press and rejects any mission incompatible with the ethical rules of the profession.
Migrants blocked on a platform off Gabès: associations call on the authorities to intervene
Since March 1, 2025, the “Alarm Phone Mediterranean” network has launched an alert concerning a serious emergency situation: reports indicate the presence of 32 people on the Tunisian gas platform “Miskar”, located in the Gulf of Gabès, in international waters and in the Maltese research and rescue area. These people have informed the “Alarm Phone Mediterranean” network that they have been without food for several days and that their condition is extremely critical. They also reported the death of a person.
2.2 billion dinars in revenue from TRE and tourism
Revenues for cumulative diaspora transfers recorded an increase of 6.70%, reaching 1.26 billion dinars on February 28, 2025, compared to 1.18 billion dinars a year earlier, according to monetary and financial indicators of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) published Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Going from 887.9 million dinars to 938.7 million dinars for this same period of 2025 in comparison with a year earlier.
