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- Mr. Doss awards UN medals to the departing Tunisian contingent
MONUC Press Release 12 may. 08 - 18.23h On 9 May 2008, on their departure from MONUC, the Tunisian military contingent, as well as their military observers and staff officers, were decorated in Kinshasa with United Nations medals for good and faithful
- Fifty illegal immigrants die off Tunisia
Fifty illegal immigrants have died in an attempt to reach Europe from North Africa, the Tunisian Arab-language daily Assabah-Ousbouii reported on Monday. The victims, all of them African, died of hunger or thirst or froze to death after the small boat in
- 47 migrants die off Tunisia coast
Forty-seven illegal migrants died of starvation and cold after the engine of rickety boat transporting them from Libya to Italy broke down, a Tunisian newspaper reported today. Sixteeen other migrants, who survived the tragedy, dumped the 47 bodies on
- Forty-seven migrants die off Tunisia coast - paper
TUNIS (Reuters) - Forty-seven illegal migrants died of starvation and cold after the engine of rickety boat transporting them from Libya to Italy broke down, a Tunisian newspaper reported on Monday. Sixteen other migrants, who survived the tragedy,
- Cheetahs' African Hunt
ZIMBABWE's sevens rugby team faces a defining season on the continent this year, starting with a Moroccan tour at the weekend and culminating in the World Cup qualifiers in Tunisia in August. The Cheetahs' African safari kick-starts with the Tangier
- AMU: 10th session of health ministers council in Tunis
TUNIS (Tunisia)- Bolstering Maghreb health cooperation, still considered below expectations, was in the heart of the 10th session of AMU health ministers council underway in Thursday in Tunis. The meeting, attended by Nouara Sadia Djaffar, Algerian
- Arab Tunisian Bank to increase capital - bourse
(Reuters) - Tunisia's private Arab Tunisian Bank ATB.TN plans to launch a two-stage capital increase worth 40 million dinars ($33.57 million), the Tunis bourse said on Friday. The first tranche is due to open this year to raise 20 million dinars and
- Tunisia's April inflation at 6 pct yr/yr
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia inflation rate rose to 6 percent year-on-year in April from 5.9 percent in March, the highest level in three years because of transport costs surge, official data showed on Friday. Food prices, the main component of Tunisia's
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Rivalry between French and Italian interests in Tunisia culminated in a French invasion in 1881 and the creation of a protectorate. Agitation for independence in the decades following World War I was finally successful in getting the French to recognize Tunisia as an independent state in 1956. The country's first president, Habib BOURGUIBA, established a strict one-party state. He dominated the country for 31 years, repressing Islamic fundamentalism and establishing rights for women unmatched by any other Arab nation. Tunisia has long taken a moderate, non-aligned stance in its foreign relations. Domestically, it has sought to defuse rising pressure for a more open political society.
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