Ksiksi in 2014

Jamila Debbech Ksiksi (Arabic: جميلة دبش كسيكسي; 14 August 1968 – 19 December 2022) was a Tunisian politician from Ennahda. In 2014, she was elected to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People becoming the country's first Black woman MP.[1]

On 19 December 2022, she was killed alongside her sister in a traffic collision near Sfax, at the age of 54.[2]

References

  1. "Tunisia racism: 'I lost the will to leave my home'". BBC News. 27 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  2. Tunisie : Décès de l’ex-députée Jamila Ksiksi et de sa sœur dans un accident de la route (in French)


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