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History-making Kano Pillars Basketball team added another feather to its cap when it emerged winners of the FIBA Africa Zone 3 Club Championship qualifier, having defeated Union Bank of Lagos 87-76 inside the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos.
A telephone call between President Bush and a world leader is a common enough event to not merit much attention, but when the president called Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi November 17, it represented a remarkable turnaround in U.S.-Libyan relations.
Twenty-five Liberians have departed the country for Cairo, Egypt, to undergo a two-week training program in diplomacy.
Nigeria's Super Falcons' unconvincing and wobbly play at the ongoing African Women's Champion-ship in Equatorial Guinea, assumed a dangerous and scary turn yesterday when they played out a goalless draw with Tunisia in Bata.
The Egyptian club Al-Ahly of Cairo have won the African Champions League trophy for the sixth time, winning 4-2 on aggegrate over Coton Sport of Cameroon. They concluded their victory with a 2-2 away draw following a 2-0 home win. Al-Ahly has now won more soccer titles than any other club in Africa.
After escaping defeat against Ghana's Black Queens over the weekend, Nigeria's Super Falcons were given a second shock after being held 0-0 by Tunisia in the on-going African Women Championships.
Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac has rated the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia as a good test for his team for the second round of the qualifying rounds of the 2010 World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations.
Nigeria's Super Falcons will this afternoon in far away Malabo, try to redeem their hope of reaching the last four of the ongoing 6th African Women Championship in Equitorial Guinea when they take on Tunisia today, after playing 1-1 draw with perennial rivals, Black Queens of Ghana in their first group match on Sunday.
Ghana striker Junior Agogo has been handed a three-match ban and a $4 000 dollar fine for an obscene gesture he insist he did not make.
During a press conference held at the head office of the Tunisian Central Bank, the Director General of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr Dominique Strauss Kahn said that Tunisia will witness "a strong economic growth, in spite of the world financial crisis which will affect in different degrees all countries". He also added that Maghrebi countries which are not oil producers are capable ...
From December 2 to March 31, 2009, Kairouan will host a cultural exhibit dubbed "Mediterranean civilizational innovation: exchange and communication". The exhibit which is hosted by the Rekada Museum of Islamic Arts and Civilization, is organized by the Ministry of culture and heritage preservation.
The Tunisian national handball team which has recently won the Qatar International Handball Tournament which was held from October 30 to November 2, in Doha, is actively preparing for the 2009 World Championship scheduled to take place from January 16 to February 1, 2009, in Croatia.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the two-month prison sentence which an appeal court in Saida (440 km southwest of Algiers) imposed on journalist Hassan Bourras on 28 October 2008 in addition to the fine of 40,000 dinars (460 euros) to which he was originally sentenced.
Tunisia has decided to significantly increase its electricity production by building three new power plants.
ANHRI's Legal Aid Unit for Freedom of Expression utterly rejects the decision issued by the president of the criminal court in south Cairo at a trial session held on 16 November 2008. This ruling upheld a previous decision to ban the media and the publication of any information from the trial of the individuals accused of murdering Lebanese artist Susan Tamim. All note-taking is prohibited, except ...
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali received on Tuesday Mr Dominique Strauss Kahn, the Director General of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The meeting focused on the situation of the Tunisian economy and the Maghrebi economic integration.
A welcome ceremony was organized on Tuesday morning in honor of Mrs Kristina Fernandez De Kirchner, President of the Republic of Argentina who arrived in Tunis on Monday night for a work and friendship visit from November 17 to 19.
The two Nigerian sides to the FIBA Africa Champions Qualifiers which took place inside the Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Surulere Lagos throughout last week gave such a scintillating account of themselves that by the time the group stage of the tournament had ended, they had secured their ticket to the final tournament expected to take place in Tunisia.
Transport Ministers of Western Mediterranean countries (GTMO 5+5), gathering in Tunisia have decided at the close of their conference, to work towards simplifying and harmonizing the legislation governing international transportation.
The fourth edition of Tunisia's pedestrian rally, also known as the "oases marathon", was launched on Sunday in Tozeur.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali planted on Sunday an olive tree, in the garden of the centre for burns and trauma which he had previously inaugurated in the governorate of Ben Arous.
Al Ahly coach Manuel Jose believes the Egyptian giant's experience tipped the scale in their favour as they won a record-breaking sixth Champions League title.
A plane carrying Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has landed on Sunday night at the Libyan capital airport as the president was due to hold emergency meeting with MPs officials said.
Tunisia's coach Umberto Coelho has picked the 22 men squad in preparation for the friendly game against Ghana on November 19 in Accra. The game is in preparation for the FIFA 2010 World Cup/ African Nations Cup.
One of Germany's leading suppliers for the electric and automotive industry, will soon start a car cable production plant in the industrial area of El Kef, in Western Tunisia.
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