Reporting on queer issues is always tough. But Tunisia was something else
The Tunisian Rugby Union expressed regret regarding the incident
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/ 26 February 2012
There was another shock outcome to a CAF competition when Moroccan club Moghreb Fes lifted the African Super Cup this weekend.
Tunisia has decided to lift an international arrest warrant for alleged corruption issued against Suha Arafat, widow of the former Palestinian leader.
Islamist supporters descended on Tunis on Saturday to confront liberal demonstrators rallying against extremism as a new constitution is drafted.
Flanked by the flags of Tunisia and his Islamist party, Rachid Ghannouchi, known by followers as "the Sheikh", is avuncular and professorial.
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/ 10 October 2011
Police have used teargas to disperse hundreds of Tunisians protesting against a niqab ban and the screening of a film they said denigrated Islam.
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/ 17 February 2011
Ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is "in a coma" in a Saudi hospital following a stroke, a family friend said on Thursday.
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/ 26 January 2011
Tunisia has asked Interpol to help find and arrest ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family.
Tunisia’s army chief on Monday warned that a "power vacuum" in the country could lead to dictatorship, as the government prepared a Cabinet reshuffle.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Tunis on Monday as pressure grew for the removal of ministers linked to the ousted president.
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/ 24 January 2011
Hundreds of defiant Tunisians camped in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi’s office to force the government to quit.
Tunisian police fired shots into the air on Thursday to try to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers leave the new government.
Tunisia’s interim president on Wednesday promised a "total break" with the past and hailed "a revolution of dignity and liberty".
Tunisia’s caretaker prime minister aims to gather his national unity Cabinet for a first meeting on Wednesday, but he already faces revolt.
Three opposition ministers quit Tunisia’s new coalition government on Tuesday.
Tunisia’s prime minister has appointed a new unity government, but his decision to retain many ministers from the old guard may upset ordinary people.
Tunisian soldiers fought loyalists of ousted strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali near the presidential palace, police say.
Tunisia’s new leadership moved to form a coalition government to gain the upper hand over violent looters and quell arson and shooting.
Hundreds of soldiers patrolled the streets of the Tunisian capital on Saturday where the prime minister was due to meet opposition parties.
Gunshots rang out and police fired tear gas to disperse protesters demanding the resignation of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on Friday.
Gunshots were heard in Tunis on Thursday, a Reuters reporter said, after one man was killed in clashes with police in the city overnight.
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/ 13 January 2011
Sporadic sounds of clashes and rounds of gunfire echoed in the suburbs of Tunisia’s capital as youths defied curfew.
At least one man has been killed in clashes with police in a Tunisian provincial town, a hospital source and witnesses said.
Tunisia will challenge all your preconceived notions about travelling in North Africa, writes Maya Fisher-French.
Tunisia routinely uses torture, illegal detention and unfair trials in the name of fighting terrorism and should be held to accepted standards.
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 which they were travelling apparently ran out of petrol.
The African Development Bank (AfDB), the only multilateral development body specifically devoted to Africa, will add -billion to its portfolio of agricultural loans to help address the food crisis in African countries, the bank said on Saturday.
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/ 24 January 2008
Africa could attract more than -billion in investment to plug big infrastructure gaps provided individual states cede more sovereignty to strengthen regional economies, an African Development Bank (ADB) expert said on Wednesday. ”The money is there,” ADB development economist Samuel Onwona said.
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/ 22 January 2008
The World Bank and African Development Bank, acting over the turmoil in Kenya, said on Tuesday they may have to adjust lending programmes if unrest persists following a disputed poll. ”We wish to continue working with the people of Kenya … but it is difficult to do so effectively in an environment of instability,” they said.
Esperance of Tunisia dropped two precious African Champions League points when held 0-0 by Asec Mimosas of Côte d’Ivoire this weekend. Al-Ahly of Egypt, seeking a record third consecutive title, are favoured to top Group B, leaving Esperance and Asec to fight for the other semifinal slot with Al-Hilal of Sudan.
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/ 13 February 2007
Africa struggles to turn natural resource exports into lasting wealth because it fails to manage the revenues openly enough, World Bank experts said on Monday. ”We don’t know how governments and the elites receive their money,” said World Bank petroleum economist Eleodoro Mayorga Alba.