 And to other parts of Africa, now Tunisia's judiciary has ordered the release of opposition leader Nabil Karoui six months after his arrest on financial corruption and tax evasion charges. Karoui has been on hunger strikes since June the 5th to protest his prolonged incarceration. The court appears to have considered that Karoui, who is 57, a leader of the Kaleeb Torrance Party, a member of the government coalition, had spent more time in pre-trial detention than the maximum allowed by law. Now founder of Tunisia's main private channel, Nesmar TV, which is partly owned by Silvio Belisconi, Karoui has been persecuted since 2017 in the case of money laundering and tax fraud. Arrested in 2019, he had then spent more than a month in prison in the middle of the election campaign, which had led to fears of crackdown. After his release, he was arrested again last December. Karoui, whose campaign for the presidential election was focused on anti-Islamism and the fight against poverty, was largely defeated by Qaiz Said and academic and new tier politics against the backdrop of rejection of the elites in power since the 2011 revolution.