Day: March 14, 2017

Stone Age tools and animal bones in Tunisia provide new clues on a 72,000-year-old ‘early human corridor’ across Africa

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Lying at the ‘crossroads’ for north-south movements between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, Tunisia is one of the world’s key regions for under early human travels. Researchers have now discovered animal bones and stone tools in the land that once formed a giant lake in Tunisia. They say their findings suggest that there may have been human activity in the area as early as 72,000 years ago. EARLY HUMANS IN TUNISIA The researchers believe the findings suggest that the Chotts megalake may have formed an early corridor for the dispersal…

Saudi Embassy hosts ceremony for Stars Stadium marketing

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The Sports Marketing and Investment Company in Africa will organize the first championship  of ”Arab brotherhood diplomacy” through a soccer mini-tournament among Arab embassies accredited to Tunisia, under the auspices of ambassador of the Custodian of the two holy Mosques his Excellency Mohamed Bin Mahmoud  Al Ali, on March 18 to 26. At the inauguration of this  sports event, a ceremony was organized at the Saudi Embassy to Tunisia on Tuesday, 14 march, with attendance of heads of the diplomatic missions, a representative of Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a…

Tunisian student tackles power and energy in Durango

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Exchange student hopes to apply her studies in electricity at home Rihab Ammar saw snow for the first time this winter. She took a 63-hour bus ride from Durango to the East Coast. And she went camping with friends in Utah. The Fort Lewis College exchange student is doing a lot of things for the first time, including learning electrical engineering with plans of applying her knowledge in her hometown of Gassa, Tunisia, a relatively small country at the northern tip of Africa. “I want to try and transfer the…

Tunisia: household food waste reaches average of 17 dinars per month (INC)

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The average food waste of each Tunisian family reaches 17 dinars per month, i.e. 5% of total food expenditure (356 dinars per month), revealed the director of studies and research at the National Consumer Institute (INC), Jalel Rabeh. Speaking at a regional conference on food waste in Tunisia held recently by the institute, Rabeh added that this rate was obtained thanks to a study carried out for the first time by INC In 2016 and which covered a representative sample of 2000 families in different governorates of Tunisia. He pointed…