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Tunisia Tunisia
Region: Northern Africa
Borders:
Capital: Tunis
Official language: Arabic
Area: 163,610 km2 (92nd)
Population: 10,732,900 (2012 estimate)
Currency: Tunisian dinar (TND)
Internet TLD: .tn | Calling code: +216
Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic
- President - Moncef Marzouki
- Prime Minister - Hamadi Jebali
History
- Independence: March 20, 1956
- Colonial Power: France
Links
- Friday 8 February 2013
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, has cautioned against Islamist movements saying they represent a threat to African diversity and called for the (...)
- Friday 16 November 2012
November 15, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Sudan’s Islamist opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP), Hassan Al-Turabi, issued a letter on Thursday distancing his party from the Islamic Movement (IM) conference being held in Khartoum, (...)
- Thursday 21 March 2013
ST ANTONY’S COLLEGE 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF, UK
The Sudanese Programme
Conference on
“The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and the Two Sudans”
Friday 7th June and Saturday 8th June 2013
The (...)
- Thursday 21 February 2013
February 20, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – Egypt intends to soon ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and utilise a loophole that allows it to avoid apprehending Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, an (...)
- Saturday 29 January 2011
January 29, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese youth have called for a mass demonstration on Sunday, inspired by the thousands of protesters who have defied authorities in Tunisia and Egypt by calling for their leaders to step down.
Emails, (...)
- Friday 11 March 2011
March 10, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir met on Thursday with the head Tunisia’s Ennahda Islamist movement, Rachid Ghannouchi, according to state media. Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia’s (...)
- Saturday 28 May 2011
May 27, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Ten African nationals, including two Sudanese citizens from the country’s western region of Darfur, were killed in clashes this week between Tunisian police and locals with the residents of a camp for refugees (...)
- Saturday 29 January 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
January 28, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) - African Union Commission Chairperson, Jean Ping addressing the 18th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union on Thursday said despite the significant economic (...)
- Wednesday 25 July 2012
July 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s main Islamist opposition, the Popular Congress Party (PCP), denied on Sunday that its leader, Hassan Al-Turabi, has received any initiative from Arab Spring countries to reunite the PCP with the ruling (...)
- Monday 28 March 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 25, 2011 (ADDS ABABA) – The Ethiopian government has evacuated a total of 93 citizens to Tunisia after they have been trapped in weeks of rebellion against the forty-two year rule of Libya’s leader Colonel (...)
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