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Tunisians protest against price hike
afrol News, 11 April - Tunisians have joined other African countries to launch protest against the soaring cost of living and unemployment. Protests are not common in the North African country, irrespective of its huge middle class citizens. Read more
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Media stimulates development
afrol News, 1 April - African media has a very important role in stimulating the continent's development process, concurred the President of African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka.
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Tunisian doctors due in SA
afrol News, 4 February - At least 100 Tunisian doctors are expected to work in South Africa's rural health facilities, the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) reveals.
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Journalist on hunger strike
afrol News, 19 December - Slim Boukhdir, a jailed Tunisian journalist has again gone on a hunger strike in protest against deplorable prison conditions. Boukhdir, who is serving a year's prison sentence at Sfax, 231 km South of the capital Tunis, started the strike on 13 December. Read more
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Tunisia journalists cry foul
afrol News, 6 December - Tunisian journalists are crying foul over the conviction of their colleague, Slim Boukhdhir, who was found guilty of multiple counts by a district court of Sakiet Ezzit. Read more
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Human rights | Media
Tunisia's only independent media under fire
afrol News, 6 June - Between 30 and 60 plain-clothed policemen have over the past two weeks surrounded the offices of 'Kalima', an online newspaper that is the only independent media based in Tunisia. 'Kalima' journalists have thus been prevented from working and updating their news site, which for years has been inaccessible for Tunisian readers.
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Society | Human rights | Media
Tunisia blocks video-sharing web
afrol News, 11 April - Tunisian authorities have followed the example of China and Thailand, blocking access to a website sharing videos for national residents. The 'Dailymotion' site had posted some political videos and its editor now risks three years in prison.
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Human rights | Media
Tunisia journalist sentenced for "belonging to opposition"
afrol News, 13 March - A Tunisian court has sentenced a national journalist in absentia to 14 months in prison for articles he wrote four years ago and have been published on several websites. The judge found it proven that the journalist "belonged to an opposition group," which was reason enough for the jail sentence.
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Politics
Tunisian extremists aim to bomb embassies
afrol News, 12 January - The Interior Minister of Tunisia, Rafik Haj Kacem, has disclosed that suspected Islamist extremists might have been planning to attack foreign missions in the country, as the police found plans of embassies and explosives after they engaged them on a recent gun fire. The diplomatic corps in Tunis is on high alert.
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Islamists arrested in Egypt "face torture" in Tunisia
afrol News / IRIN, 8 January - An Amnesty International statement claims that the Egyptian authorities were preparing to forcibly return four Tunisian nationals – Ayman Hkiri, Ahamed Lahbib, Mhamed Almadiri and another whose name was unknown. If returned to Tunisia they would be in grave danger of torture, Amnesty added.
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Economy - Development
Tunisia finally increasing oil production
afrol News, 19 December - After more than two decades of a declining oil production, Tunisia finally sees a quick growth in its hydrocarbon sector. With the recently connected offshore Oudna field now already producing half of its forecasted target, national oil production could soon be reaching the peak of the early 1980s.
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Politics
Germany deepens ties with Maghreb
afrol News, 16 November - During a current North African roundtrip, German Foreign Minister Frank Steinmeier is aiming at deepening and broadening ties with Maghreb countries before Germany's presidency of the European Union (EU) in the first half of 2007. Mr Steinmeier is touring Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania.
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Politics | Human rights
"Escalation of hysterical repression" in Tunisia
afrol News, 24 May - A grouping of 24 international human rights groups has denounced the "escalation of hysterical repression" in Tunisia, following several government attacks on human rights activists and lawyers this month. While Tunisian authorities never have tolerated human rights works and the freedom of expression, activists hold that recent government action go even further than before.
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Tunisia still holds some 200 political prisoners
afrol News, 1 March - Although Dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali this weekend freed a total of 1600 prisoners to mark Tunisia's upcoming 50th anniversary of independence, rights activists complain that most political prisoners still remain in jail. Only 80 out of Tunisia's estimated 280 political prisoners were released. Writers, journalists and human rights defenders are withheld.
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Politics | Economy - Development | Travel - Leisure
North Africa travel cancellations after cartoons
afrol News, 6 February - All holiday flights from Denmark to Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco during the next few weeks have been cancelled after the Danish government warned that the violent protests against the Mohammed cartoons "may spread to other countries." Denmark is still the only country warning its citizens from going to North Africa, but in several other countries, tour operators and airliners have offered nervous travellers free cancellation opportunities. Many have made use of them.
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» 16.11.2005 - UN finally signals discontent with Tunisia
» 09.09.2005 - Deterioration of rights situation in Tunisia
» 04.05.2005 - Tunisia lawyer to prison over "false news"
» 24.02.2005 - Criticism of Tunisia not allowed at UN meeting
» 02.02.2005 - Total censorship remains in place in Tunisia
» 31.01.2005 - Increased pressure for Tunisia democratisation
» 11.01.2005 - Canada-Tunisia biopharma alliance established
» 14.12.2004 - Tunisia police stop human rights gathering
» 23.11.2004 - Tunisia committed to wetland protection
» 08.11.2004 - "Economic outlook for Tunisia favourable"
» 04.11.2004 - Scores of political prisoners released in Tunisia
» 25.10.2004 - Incumbent wins Tunisia "elections"
» 27.09.2004 - Wake-up call for Tunisia's press ahead of polls
» 10.08.2004 - Surge in tourism to Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco
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