Health of hospitalised Tunisian president begins to improve -adviser

The condition of 92-year-old Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has begun to improve, a presidential adviser told Reuters on Thursday, hours after his office said he was hospitalised for a "severe health crisis".

An aide to Essebsi, a major player in the North African country's transition to democracy since 2011, had said earlier that he was in a "very critical" condition.