Germany’s need for foreign healthcare workers has led many Tunisians nurses to seek a future there, often facing a tangle of bureaucracy and unregulated recruitment agencies. Despite recent reforms to make things easier, the process remains complex and leaves many vulnerable to exploitation. 

Exams, committees, precarious status: those wishing to practice medicine in France must go through a tortuous path. This tedious and sometimes humiliating process is widely used by French medicine to offset its shortcomings.

 In recent months, environmental activists have been prosecuted and silenced, and grassroots movements have suffered the most. Amid a broader attack on civil rights and liberties, inkyfada takes stock of the obstacles facing environmental activists. Against the backdrop of the worsening climate crisis, they are urgently needed. Yet, increasingly, they are under threat.

After 10 years in the making, the official list of martyrs and wounded of the Revolution was finally published in the State Journal on March 19, 2021. In it, the State recognised 129 martyrs and 634 wounded. Who was responsible for creating this list? How was it conceived? What does it include? In the first episode of this series, Inkyfada aims to clarify these questions and uncover the background of this list that strikes the very heart of the Tunisian collective memory.