Tunisia News

“Tradition is needed to go forward with Italian youngsters, not foreigners”

ROME : Last month, Gambero Rosso, the prestigious reviewer of restaurants and wine, sought out Rome's best carbonara, a dish of pasta, eggs, pecorino cheese and guanciale that defines tradition here. via International Herald Tribune

Bahrain: 52 minutes ago Bahrain-based International Investment Bank has acquired an equity stake in ARTES, an automotive distributor company based in Tunis, Tunisia for more than $200m. ARTES exclusively ... via AME Info

After the jump is a press release by Tunisian rights activist Sihem Bensedrine on the release of comic Hedi Ouled Baballah, who recently spent two months in prison for cannabis possession. via The Arabist

“I am happy to participate in this cultural exchange.”

Tunisian singer Amel Mathlouthi visited Yemen at the behest of the French Cultural Institute last week to hold a workshop with Yemeni singers and perform a concert with a group of renowned Yemeni musicians. via Yemen Times

A senior official of the Communist Party of China met with Hedi M'enni, general secretary of the Democratic Constitutional Rally of Tunisia, in Tunis Saturday. via Huliq.com

“Unfortunately, this did not occur.”

By SALAH NASRAWI and LEE KEATH - Associated Press Writers -- Adel Hana Front, from left, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Syrian President Bashar Assad, Tunisian President Zine ... via Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Winstar Resources Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on its Tunisian, Hungarian and Canadian operations conducted during the first quarter of 2008. via Canada NewsWire

“You can predict what the man is going to say, without having to continue to listen. We have heard him say that over and over again, and nothing has changed. Things are getting worse in the Arab world day after day.”

Posted on 03/24/2008 5:01:22 PM PDT by forkinsocket Moroccans and Tunisians have rejected fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's call to violence in two audio recordings aired last week. via Free Republic

Holders Etoile Sahel made an emphatic start to the defence of their African Champions League title with a 5-0 defeat of Senegal's AS Douanes in their second round, first leg tie in Sousse on Saturday. via ESPN

In 2009, cruise travelers on Costa cruise ships will visit 250 ports on more than 100 different itineraries and in 78 countries. via About.com

“The favorable conditions of the region plus its immediate vicinity to Europe were the decisive factors for choosing Tunisia for a location. Start of production for the technological area of inductive components is planned to be in May 2008”

Electronic manufacturing services company Zollner Elektronik AG has said it is opening its 13th factory in Beja, Tunisia. via My ESM

“I have just learnt that Libya was able, via intermediaries, to establish a contact with the abductors of the two hostages”

Libya has established contact with the kidnappers of two Austrian tourists kidnapped in Tunisia by a North African offshoot of Al-Qaeda, a diplomat in the Malian capital said today. via Sunday Times

“My country has been solicited by Austria to participate in the release of the two hostages and we shall do all we can to see that the hostages recover their freedom”

Austria sought Libyan help Monday to free two of its nationals seized three weeks ago in Tunisia after the kidnappers, a group linked to Al-Qaeda, extended their deadline for a proposed prisoner swap. via Raw Story

“We've received notice whereby we now have more time -- beyond the original deadline that would have expired at midnight on Sunday -- for our efforts to secure the release of Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber”

The kidnappers of two Austrians seized in Tunisia and currently thought to be in Mali have extended a Sunday midnight deadline for their demands to be met, the Austrian foreign ministry said. via Raw Story

This Travel Alert updates U.S. citizens about security concerns in Tunisia. In light of the reported kidnapping of two Western tourists in the Tunisian-Algerian southern desert region, the Department of State ... via Kansas City InfoZine

“You are interested in the safety of your citizens”

Al-Qaeda's branch for North Africa posted a new Internet statement Thursday, setting conditions and giving a three-day deadline for the release of two Austrian tourists it claimed to have kidnapped in Tunisia ... via USA Today

“The kidnappers of the two Austrian tourists have managed to get into the Sahel, crossing Algeria and Libya to get back to their rear base in Mali”

An al Qaeda-linked gang that kidnapped two Austrian tourists in Tunisia has taken them across the Sahara to northern Mali, the Arabic daily Annahar reported on its internet site on Tuesday. via News24.com

Austrian authorities said Tuesday they were doing all they could to search for two tourists missing in Tunisia after al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed it had kidnapped them. via PR-inside.com

“We (would like to) stress that there is no reason to be concerned about the security and physical integrity of the millions of European tourists who visit Tunisia each year”

An Austrian couple touring the north African desert who have gone missing have not been abducted, the Tunisian authorities said Tuesday. via Earth Times

Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for kidnapping two Austrian tourists last month in Tunisia in an audio recording aired Monday on Al-Jazeera television. via Guardian Unlimited