Flights ban on security grounds

Tunisia has suspended all flights by Emirates to and from Tunis after the Dubaibased airline barred Tunisian women from boarding its flights last week.

The Tunisian presidency said yesterday the United Arab Emirates’ authorities explained that they made the decision following “serious security information” about alleged plans for attacks by Tunisian women, or women with Tunisian passports, from “tense hotbeds” in Syria and Iraq.

UAE’S minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash wrote on Twitter that the ban was temporary and due to security reasons.