February 22, 2012, 5:05 AM EST By Salma El Wardany Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — A Sudanese student activist entered the 11th day of a hunger strike to protest his arrest without charge after he participated in a protest at the University of Khartoum, his lawyer and a family member said. Taj Alsir Jaafar, 25, a [...]
Esperance star Oussama Darragi is set to move to Swiss club FC Sion. The Tunisian international, who played a key role in his club’s African Champions League success, will join on a four-year contract, Sion say. Darragi helped Tunisia win the CHAN, the African tournament for locally-based players, and reach the quarter-finals of the Africa [...]
Petrodar is a consortium of oil firms operating in South Sudan that includes the national oil corporations of China and Malaysia. Petrodar did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Liu’s ouster comes in the midst of the company’s relocation of its headquarters from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to Juba, the capital of South [...]
(AFP) – 4 hours ago TUNIS — Tunisia’s court of cassation on Wednesday threw out a ruling banning pornographic websites, a judicial source and a press freedom watchdog said. “The court quashed the first instance and appeals ruling that ordered the censorship of pornographic websites,” the judicial source told AFP on condition of anonymity. The [...]
Real Madrid’s Germany midfielder Sami Khedira has spoken out against the arrests of three Tunisian journalists who republished pictures of the footballer and his girlfriend in semi-naked poses. The Real Madrid star, whose father is Tunisian, posed for the erotic pictures with his model girlfriend, Lena Gercke, in GQ magazine, but three journalists from Tunisian [...]
(MENAFN – Arab News) A high-level Tunisian delegation currently visiting the Kingdom and led by its Prime Minster Hamadi Jebali met with Saudi businessmen at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) on Saturday. Jebali is on his first visit to the Kingdom after becoming prime minister in the post-revolution government in Tunisia. The [...]
This weeks arrest of three Tunisian journalists for publishing a revealing picture of a Tunisian soccer player with his girlfriend has deepened secular distrust of Tunisias Islamist-led post-revolt government and fueled debate in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond about the true intentions of Sunni Muslim Islamist parties that are emerging as victors [...]
Eritrea opposition figure feared abducted in Sudan Eastern Sudan is home to tens of thousands of ethnic Eritreans An Eritrean opposition party official has been missing for two days in eastern Sudan and there are fears he may have been kidnapped by Asmara’s security agents, the party alleged on Thursday. Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, a member [...]
TUNIS, Feb 16, 2012 (IPS) – A month after the first anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, the North African country is being rocked by labour protests supported by the Union General Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), the main labour union in the country. The protests are centered in the impoverished western regions. The west of the [...]
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Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]