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Hedi Jellab, Director General of Tunisia's National Archives, told Radio Nationale on April 22 that the institution has digitized 3.6 million documents from a holding of 5.2 million boxes, with a dedicated film restoration and cinematographic digitization laboratory in development. Ecofin Agency reported the announcement on April 24, 2026.
Half a million boxes have been digitized to date, including roughly 400,000 documents and files from the beylical period preceding French occupation (roughly 1700–1900). A national inventory has identified more than 2.3 million audiovisual documents, 2 million photographs, and 43,000 sound recordings. Rare pieces date to the 16th century.
