Habib Bourguiba
This picture shows people lighting candles arranged to read 'Tunisia' in the Habib Bourguiba avenue after submerging into darkness as part of the Earth Hour switch-off in Tunis on March 23, 2013. Organisers expect hundreds of millions of people across more than 150 countries to turn off their lights for 60 minutes on Saturday night -- at 8:30 pm local time -- in a symbolic show of support for the planet. While more than 150 countries joined in last year's event, the movement has spread even further afield this year, with Palestine, Tunisia, Suriname and Rwanda among a host of newcomers pledging to take part.
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Vendor's suicide reflects despair of Mideast youth
after his 27th birthday, Adel left the dirty room he shared with his older brother in a Tunis slum for the tree-lined Avenue Habib Bourguiba, once the stage for the first of the Arab Spring uprisings.He stopped in front of the art deco Municipal Theater. He Read more »
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The global and local re-packaging and marketing of a “moderate” Islamist leader
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Tunisia: Citizens Denounce Price Hikes As Larayedh Visits Point of Sale
Tunis — Citizens approached on Sunday Interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh as he was visiting a "producer to the consumer" point of sale at the Habib Bourguiba Avenue and decried the increase in agricultural product prices. They also requested that the Go from AllAfrica.com Read more »
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Vendor's suicide reflects despair of Mideast youth
SOUK AL-JUMMA, Tunisia (AP) — On the day he chose to die, Adel Khedri woke up at 6:30 a.m., took his black backpack and headed down to the busy boulevard where he worked as a cigarette peddler. It was the last in a series of odd jobs that had defined his from KGW.com Read more »
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Vendor's suicide reflects despair of Mideast youth
Customers are served coffee in the "Cafe de la Justice", next to the cigarette stand once run by Adel Khedri in Tunis, Tunisia on Monday, April 15, 2013. On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Adel drank his usual espresso with milk at the cafe. Later in the mornin from Beaumont Enterprise Read more »
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Tunisia: Celebration in Tunis of Labour Day
Tunis — National colours as well as other standards of workers' unions were waved on Wednesday morning in Habib Bourguiba Avenue, downtown Tunis, on the celebration of Labour Day. Groups of young people, delegates of trade unions and other political acti from AllAfrica.com Read more »
