From May 4 to 8, 2008, the city of Sfax will host a major international biotechnology symposium which is jointly organized by the International Biotechnology Engineering center (ICGEB), the University of Sfax and the Tunisian Union of Industry, commerce and
The 12 th edition of the "Comar d'or" which concluded on April 25, 2008 with the award giving ceremony enhanced by the presence of the Tunisian singer and musician Zied Gharsa, has revealed a fine crop of writers whose novels
More than three years after the January 2005 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), health needs in southern Sudan remain critical and simmering tensions create a precarious security situation, a medical charity says.
Mr Kuol Athain, South Sudan's Minister of Finance and Economic Planning swivels in a leather chair behind a shiny mahogany desk, in an air-conditioned office that has taken the government three years to renovate, and answers why the Government of
Voicing her deep concern about the reported attacks on villages in North Darfur, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan has called for immediate access to the affected areas to provide assistance and medical evacuation for the injured.
The days are hot and long in Sudan's arid Northern Kordofan State, between North Darfur and Khartoum, where the farmers say droughts have become more intense and frequent in the past few decades as they sip hot chai in Gereigikh
The international community needs to refocus on South Sudan and to increase support for recovery and development there, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General said today.
Sudanese officials and representatives of donor nations opened a major conference in Norway on 5 May, amid warnings that the provisions of a three-year-old peace accord had fallen dangerously behind schedule.
Days after the UN and African Union condemned as unacceptable the bombings of villages and markets in Darfur by Sudanese government planes, at least 13 people were reported killed in an attack on a primary school and market in North
African Development Bank (AfDB) said in Tunis, weekend, that it was committing an additional $1 billion to fight the current food crisis in Africa and member countries.
In an address to the Tunisian- French economic Forum in Gammarth, North of Tunis, President Nicolas Sarkozy said that France was willing to work with Tunisia "at all levels, political, economic, cultural and academic to build together a common future,
From May 1 to May 8, 2008, Tunis will play host to the 7 th edition of the "Carthage choreographic encounters" which are scheduled this year around the theme "Dance Africa, Dance".
Tunisian and French archeologists resumed clearing works that have recently uncovered two Christian basilicas symmetrically positioned at each end of the small ancient city of 'Aradi', located in Sidi Jdidi, in Tunisia 's Cap Bon area.
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the degrading manner in which journalist Slim Boukhdir is being treated in Sfax prison (230 km south of Tunis), where he has decided to go on hunger strike again after catching scabies.
Blanko Tucak has dropped the pair of Mbuyu Twite and Kalisa Kase from his squad that traveled to Khartoum for the African Championship first round clash with Sudan scheduled for Sunday.
The United Nations-African Union hybrid peacekeeping operation has evacuated North Darfur villagers wounded in recent attacks by Sudanese forces that have left three dead and at least eight injured.
The senior United Nations official in Sudan has offered his condolences to the Government of Southern Sudan after learning of the death today of one of its ministers and other military officials in a plane crash.
Sudanese refugees returning home from Uganda hit the 50,000 mark recently, a report from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said on the same day.
