BREAKING NEWS: Tunisia Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali Resigns

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has announced his resignation in a live television address to the nation.

Mr Jebali had been trying to form a new coalition in response to the political crisis sparked by the killing of opposition leader Chokri Belaid.

He had said he would quit if his Islamist Ennahda party did not back his plan for a cabinet of technocrats.

Mr Belaid's assassination on 6 February provoked mass protests and resignations from Tunisia's coalition government.