Tunisia
The Republic of Tunisia, the smallest of the four countries in the North African Maghrib, borders Algeria on the west and Libya on the southeast. On the east and north it has nearly 1,300 km (800 mi.) of Mediterranean coastline. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, but minerals and tourism are also important sources of revenue. Tunisia became independent in 1956 after more than 70 years as a French protectorate. Tunis is its capital. Tunisia has three distinct physical regions: the northern mountains, the central steppe, and the southern desert.
Tunisia Beaches - A Paradise for Family Beach Holiday Vacations
Plan your family holidays on beautiful sandy beaches of Tunisia. Tunisia beaches offers lots of water sport activities and are very safe for the families and children. Stay in a Tunisia hotel close to the beaches of Tunisia and enjoy you beach holidays.
Explore the Captivating Tunisia
Tunisia welcomes the family, groups and backpackers to enjoy a wonderful vacation in its natural beauty. With a large coastline of Mediterranean sea, travelers can enjoy water sports and other activities.
Tunisia Accused of Using Torture in Name of Anti-terrorism
Amnesty has found evidence of arrest dates being falsified, prisoners held incommunicado, and beatings
The Epitome of Adventure and Pleasure Holidays In Tunisia
Experience the holiday vacations in Tunisia, a North African country. Tunisia offers lots of sports activities and tourist attractions and have some beautiful sandy beaches and exotic landscapes to enjoy with your family.
Golf Holidays in Tunisia - Enjoy A New Experiment
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Sarkozy backtracks on human rights promise
French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, refuses to condemn Tunisia's human rights record during a two-day state visit to the country. Instead he congratulates Zine al Abidine Ben Ali's government for its efforts in the fight against terrorism.
Tunisian test for Sarkozy's human rights policy
French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, begins a two-day state visit to Tunisia. On the agenda will be trade deals and the Mediterranean Union, but a fair amount of attention will also be paid to whether he addresses Tunisia's poor human rights record.
Three Arrested in Denmark Over Plot to Kill Muhammad Cartoonist
Two Tunisians expelled, Dane faces terror charges, while cartoonist defies threat and works on
An Uncriticised Success
The press is heavily controlled and its elections are little more than a facade, but Tunisia continues to be held up by the west as a model Arab state, writes Ian Black.
French Journalist Stabbed in Tunis
The French government has called on Tunisia to open an inquiry into an incident over the weekend in which a reporter from Liberation was attacked in Tunis. By Jason Deans.
64 Feared Dead As Migrants' Boat Sinks
Up to 64 north African migrants were feared dead last night after their boat sank en route from Tunisia to southern Italy, according to Tunisian authorities. Twenty-two bodies had been found and the Tunisian coastguard said it had picked up only 11 survivors from the 75 migrants who...
Egypt Offers to Host Arab League Summit
An Arab summit which Tunisia unilaterally postponed could be held in Cairo within three weeks, the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, said today. The development, reported by Egypt's official Middle East news agency (MENA), comes amid urgent diplomatic moves by Egypt and other members of...
200 presumed dead after overladen refugee boat sinks
Tunisian navy rescue boats were still criss-crossing a choppy Mediterranean yesterday but no one was expecting to find anything but bodies amid the endless miles of white-frothed waves.
Search for 200 after refugee boat sinks
Rescuers plucked 20 bodies from the sea and continued searching for a further 200 last night after a boat loaded with would-be immigrants sank off the Tunisian coast.
Eight Held for Suicide Attack on Synagogue
French intelligence agents have arrested eight people in connection with the suicide attack earlier this year on a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 21 people, the interior ministry said yesterday. The suspects were detained in the Lyon area by agents from the DST counter-intelligence...
Deadly attack keeps world on alert
Djerba attack that left 21 dead provided al-Qaida with its first 'success' outside Asia. April 11 2002. About 10.20am: A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba.
Planes Crash in Tunisia and China
Rescue workers on two sides of the world scrambled to find survivors today after a passenger plane crashed in Tunisia and another went missing in the sea off north-eastern China. The official Xinhua news agency reported that a Chinese airliner with 112 passengers and crew aboard crashed...
Tunisian Synagogue Bomb Tied to Al-qaida
The German government said yesterday it was certain that terrorists were responsible for the blast in Tunisia earlier this month that killed 17 people, most of them German tourists. There is persuasive evidence that the explosion, originally described as an accident, was al-Qaida's first...
Six killed in synagogue blast
Fears of anti-semitic attacks spreading through the Arab world were sparked yesterday after six people, including four German tourists, were killed when a lorry carrying bottled gas exploded by a synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba.
Five Killed in Tunisia Synagogue Blast
Five people died and 20 others were injured today after a truck loaded with natural gas crashed into a wall surrounding a synagogue in Tunisia, the north African country's official news agency reported. The explosion on the Tunisian island of Djerba was an "accident", TAP news agency said...


