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Sample & Partial Listing of Tunisian Governmental Agencies & Companies

The Press and Radio/TV in Tunisia:

La Presse has a daily news service with good coverage of sports. Versions in Arab and French.

Le Renoveau is a daily newspaper with general information from Tunisia. French.

Réalités is a weekly magazine with politics, economy and society news and debates. In French.

Tunisia National Radio

Tunisia National Television

International Press:

Le Monde, the leading French newspaper, has an ample international coverage (all in French).

The Africa and Middle East site of the BBC World Services offers updated news, articles and other media services on Africa.

The Financial Times is one of the world's leading business newspapers with a global outlook. You can also go directly to their Middle East and Africa page.

The International Herald Tribune is a daily newspaper edited in Paris with a focus on news from all over the world. Published with The New York Times & The Washington Post.

The New York Times is one of the most important US newspapers, having a relatively good international coverage, including an Africa page. Most international articles, however, are by AP or Reuters.

The Washington Post is a prestigious US newspaper with an ample international coverage.

Times Internet Edition (UK) is the internet edition of the world's oldest daily newspaper. The sister paper, the Sunday Times Internet Edition has its own website. Relatively good international coverage.

Press reporting about Tunisia:

Africa Confidential is a biweekly journal on Africa. They let you enter their database on Tunisia of past headlines, which has some basic facts and news about Tunisia.

Africa News Online is an electronic network handling the distribution of reporting from more than 40 African news organizations and provides a showcase for journalism from across the African continent. You can also go directly to their Tunisia page, listing the latest news stories.

Tunisia Globe is powered by WorldNews.com. This news site brings you daily news about Tunisia, provided by the world's leading newspapers and press agencies. It's not really a newspaper itself, more a very efficient search engine, giving you headlines made all over the world. In English.

Telecom/Internet Services:

Network Startup Resource Center Tunisia Page contains information about telecommunications, internet services and networking in Tunisia.

Government Offices:

The Tunisian Government is the official site with a list of all ministries.

The Central Bank of Tunisia has a website, in English and French, which informs on statistics, reports, exchange, annual publications, etc.

The Tunisian Official Tourism Office offers the most updated information about all tourism activities in the country.

Embassies and Representations in Foreign Countries:

The Permanent Mission of Tunisia to the United Nations in New York

Culture:

The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families and countries.

Women & Gender:

Tunisia.com offers a special page about the women's right in the country, with information about laws and some more. In French.

Economy:

Global Center For Trade: PowerPoint presentations and articles written on the Maghreb: http://glocentra.com or click on these Doing Business in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

Mbendi Consultants' country profile on Tunisia concentrates on economical issues. Statistics on communications and information technology, etc.

http://www.tunisiaonline.com/ offers interesting data of the country's economic situation for importers, exporters, distributors and traders.

WTO-search - In the database of the World Trade Organization you'll find quit a few country-specific documents about trade, subsidies, development, etc. in Tunisia. Write "Tunisia" in the "Document Title" bar.

FAO-search - (UN-org.) Their database gives you lots of articles and reports about livestock and agriculture in Tunisia. Tons of free information!

ILO-search - (UN-org.) Their database might find you some reports about working conditions in Tunisia, although there is little African country-specific information.

UNDP-search - (UN-org.) You will find a solid amount of documents and reports about development in Tunisia in their database.

UNESCO-search - (UN-org.) Their database contains loads of document related to education, science and culture and related items in Tunisia.

WHO-search - (UN-org.) You'll find quit a few documents and reports about health issues in Tunisia and the region doing a search in their database.

UNIONS is the United Nations International Organizations Network Search. Here you can search within all the UN-system, including sub-organizations. Expect to find too much documents, reports, articles, etc. about Tunisia.

IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Network) is a UN humanitarian information unit, covering news from all Africa. You can also go directly into their Tunisia archive, where articles from the last months about Tunisia figure.

ECA-search - (UN.org.) In the database of the Economic Commission for Africa you might find some country-specific information about development. They also are quite good on gender issues.

Environment/Nature:

Friends of the Earth (FoEI) is the world's largest federation of environmental groups, uniting close to one million activists worldwide. FoEI's member organizations in 61 countries. Its local office in Tunisia has a web page with some basic information.

NewAfrica-Environment offers interesting information about the environment in Africa, among other subjects, and sometimes news about the environment in Tunisia.

General Information/Read about Tunisia:

Infonation is a UN statistics service. Choose country specific data from their huge and updated database. All countries are represented with data from the fields geography, economy, population and social indicators. You can compare data from up to seven countries.

The Spanish spoken website of the Basque publishing house Ikuska has pages on all African countries with relatively good statistical data and links to some Spanish spoken sites.

L'Afrique sur Internet is the website in French about everything what's happening on Internet in francophone Africa. List of links, forums, etc.

The U.S. government has several informative, though subjective, pages about most countries in the world, including Tunisia, being regularly updated.

Another informative site is the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Released by the U.S. State Department. Yet another, the travel warnings to each country of the world, by the same department.

The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families.

Infoplease.com contains a page about Tunisia with basic data of the country: history, geography, etc.

NewAfrica Tunisia offers interesting information about Tunisian infrastructure, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc.

AdmiNet's Tunisia Page offers an ample, well organized list of links.

Africa dot com's Tunisia page with a general presentation, basic data and general travel information.

In Afrique francophone, only in French, you'll find links to some sites in francophone countries and francophone Africa in general.

Travel:

Africaguide.com is a website with complete travel information on 51 African countries. In its pages about Tunisia you'll find data about region and towns, accommodation, tours and more.

Atevo travel destinations offers practical data about Tunisia, besides some travel guides.

Excite Travel has a site-page on Tunisia with some useful information and maps.

The INFOHUB travel guide to Tunisia has useful travel information, including links on accommodation and transportation.

Lonely Planet, the famous publisher of budget travel guides, has pages on each African country. On their

Tunisia Page you'll find country background information and facts (overviews) for the traveler (money & costs, when to go, attractions, activities, getting there, getting around, etc.), if there's not a travel warning. Detailed facts only in the guide books.

The Tunisian Official Tourism Office offers the most updated information about all tourism activities in the country.

The U.S. State Department files travel information and warnings for all countries, world wide. Their annually updated pages contain a short description of the country and useful information about safety, crime rate, health services and insurance. Aimed at U.S. citizens, but useful for anybody. Go directly to their Tunisia Page.

World Online Travel Agency for airlines, hotels, car hires, adventures in Africa has a page on Tunisia. You won't find too much information, but they have detailed maps of the country.

World Travel Guide's entry to Tunisia: This is a good, informative and well organized site. Lists all kind of practical information (passport, visa, etc.) and has an introduction to Tunisian tourist sites. Guides exist to all countries. You might want to go to their Africa Page. Also a German entry.

Editor: Said Cherkaoui, Ph.D.