The Seven Files
Ongoing, source-verified investigative documentation of systemic failure, public utility decline, and state accountability across Tunisia.
The 7 Core Investigative Dossiers
Every dossier contains verified baseline indicators, institutional responsibility mappings, state responses, primary gazette documents, and documented data gaps.
Investigative documentation of Tunisia’s hydraulic deficit, reservoir storage levels, SONEDE rationing schedules, and regional supply disparities.
Investigation into STEG generation capacity, distribution breakdowns, maintenance deficits, and seasonal load shedding across governorates.
Field evidence, ecological audits, and environmental health data from industrial hotspots across Gabès, Sfax, and Gafsa.
Analysis of official labor statistics, graduate joblessness, brain drain, wage erosion, and systemic labor market exclusion.
Investigating irregular sea departures, security operations, human rights conditions, transit camps, and bilateral European border accords.
Documenting everyday institutional decay across state hospitals, suburban rail and bus transport fleets, and municipal waste management.
Tracking the restructuring of state institutions, Decree-Law 54 cybercrime prosecutions, judicial autonomy, and the concentration of executive authority.
Gabès: Industrial Pollution & State Inaction
404TN’s deep-dive flagship investigation into the Groupe Chimique Tunisien (GCT) industrial complex at Chatt Essalam. Featuring satellite verification, environmental baseline comparisons, timeline of unfulfilled government relocation decrees, and documented atmospheric data deficits.