CAIRO:  Tunisia's president issued a decree on Saturday to establish a provisional Supreme Judiciary Council, effectively replacing the present council, the Tunisian presidency announced on Facebook.

Late last week President Kais Saied said he would issue a decree effectively dissolving the Supreme Judiciary Council, one of the last remaining institutions in the country able to work independently of him.

(Reporting by Moataz Mohamed; Editing by Sandra Maler) ((moataz.mohamed@thomsonreuters.com;))