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President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali delivered, on Monday, an address during the World Summit on Food Security and World Food Situation, held in Rome on November 16-18.
Organized by the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries under the aegis of President of the Republic, Tunisia will host from November 18 to 22, 2009 the 10th International Exhibition of Agriculture, Farming Machinery and Fisheries.
Tunisia now has its own electron accelerator. The First of its kind and in the country and in North Africa, the accelerator is located at the Nuclear Technologies Centre in Sidi Thabet, near Tunis.
Mr. Abderrazak Daaloul, Secretary of state in charge of fisheries and Mr. Chokri Mamoghli, Secretary of State in charge of External Trade conferred on Saturday with Mr. Wieslaw Woda, President of Poland-Tunisia Friendship Group currently in Tunisia on a working visit at the head of the Polish delegation.
Mr. Mondher Zenaidi, Minister of Health and Mr. Afif Chelbi, Minister of Industry, Energy and Small and Medium Enterprises, chaired on Saturday in Tunis, a signing ceremony of a spin-off contract between between both ministries and the Tunis Pasteur Institute.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took part in the World Summit on Food Security and World Food Situation whose works started on Monday morning at the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organization's headquarters.
Tunisia won two gold medals, 4 silver and one bronze at the African Nations tennis Cup (CAN-2009) which ended on Sunday in Cairo.
MOROCCANS showed that there is a huge gulf between them and the rest of the pack after posting a top four finish on Day one of the Tour of Rwanda.
ONE of Ferwafa's technical officials Aloys Kanamugire is attending a pilot course for new coaching licensing system organised by the Confederation of African Football in Cairo, Egypt.
There's only one slot left to be filled in Africa's line-up at the 2010 Fifa World Cup, to be played in South Africa next June, and it will be taken after what has the makings of an epic playoff between Algeria and Egypt in Sudan on Wednesday.
Aminatou Haidar, one of the most prominent human rights activists in the liberation of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, was detained, then deported, by the Moroccan authorities on her arrival in the territory last Friday. Some weeks earlier, she visited Washington, DC to receive the Civil Courage Prize, sponsored by the U.S.-based Train Foundation. AllAfrica interviewed her there.
The Paris magazine "Madame Figaro" published an article under the title: " Mrs. Leila Ben Ali and the Causes of Arab Women" in which it highlights the strong will driving the First Lady and Chairwoman of the Arab Women Organisation to enhance women's position in the family and in different areas of economic activity.
First Lady Leila Ben Ali, Chairwoman of the Arab Women Organisation (AWO), made a statement upon her arrival Saturday in Rome, Italy, on the occasion of her participation in works of the Second Summit of First Ladies of member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement on Food Security and Women's Access to Resources.
A workshop was held on Friday by Tunisia's National Sanitation Office (ONAS) on "South-South cooperation in the water sanitation sectors" on the fringes of the second environmental investment and employment forum, "Green Ifriqya 2009-'.
A meeting was held on Friday at "La Maison des Exportateurs", by Centre for the Promotion of Exports (CEPEX) on ways to "export opportunities in the Hungarian market".
Mr. Mohamed Ghannouchi, Prime Minister inaugurated on Friday in Hammamet, the First International Exhibition of Food-Processing Industry and Services (SIIAS 2009), which will run until November 15, 2009.
The 2nd edition of environmental forum "Green Ifriqiya 2009" closed on Saturday at the El Kram Exhibitions Hall.
Last week "Objection!" submitted that Uganda ought to be wary of increased Chinese and Arabian investments in the region if we are interested in moving towards democracy, good governance, impeccable observance of human rights and overall freedoms. The reason is simple and straightforward: if you are looking for any of the four issues above, China and the Arab world are precisely the places you ...
Cape Town and the World Cup draw await, but there are those who still haven't earned the right to join the party. The tragic death of German goalkeeper Robert Enke, who had been a sure bet to be in South Africa next June, has yet again brought forth the bitter irony that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death, a quite sobering perspective for me and you.
Remarks made by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at a "Forum for the Future" in Marrakech, Morocco on November 3, 2009.
Remarks made by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Taieb Fassi-Fihri, in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 2, 2009.
The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) Director, Retired Major Adamu Argungu, over the weekend warned motorists in the FCT to drive with much caution and avoid damaging street lightening infrastructures, particularly the solar infrastructure places along the Outer Northern Expressway by Onnex.
Egyptian football authorities are leaving no stone unturned as they pamper their players with the hope of sailing through the 2010 World Cup qualifying match against Algeria's Desert Foxes. The Egyptian federation has promised each player some US$ 300,000 if they win today's crucial match.
The simmering rivalry for continental pre-eminence between Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is bringing them both into company they would not normally be associated with, confirming the maxim that "politics makes for strange bedfellows."
The curtain fell today on the 6th and final day of group B qualifiers for the combined 2010 World Cup/African Cup of Nations as Tunisia lost 1-0 against Mozambique in Maputo. On its part Nigeria beat Kenya 3-2 in a cliff hanger.
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