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Ksar of Medenine, Tunisia

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1916 to Constantine, Algeria

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The Allied Victory in North Africa

The Allied victory in North Africa was achieved in May 1943 after three years of indecisive battles across the region. Outnumbered and with its supply lines compromised, the Axis German-Italian army lost the Battle of Medenine before being overwhelmed at the Mareth Line of defences around Tunis. The massive Allied land, air, and sea presence combined US, British, British Empire, and Free French troops, who worked together to bring victory in the Tunisia Campaign. With control of North Africa, the Allies could proceed with the next stage of the war: the invasion of southern Europe.

Allied Victory Parade, Tunis, 1943

Sergeant Palmer - Imperial War Museums (CC BY-NC-SA)

The Importance of North Africa

Right from the start of WWII, North Africa was recognised by both sides as having crucial strategic value. Whoever controlled North Africa could also control vital Mediterranean shipping routes, while the Suez Canal was the lifeline between Britain and its eastern empire. In addition, Egypt remained a bulwark of defence for the British-controlled oil fields of the Middle East. For the Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), North Africa presented a tantalising vision of an Italian Empire that could finally rival that of France and Britain on the continent.

The Western Desert Campaigns had gone back and forth between 1940 and 1942 as Axis and Allied forces shared victories and losses. The tide began to turn definitively following the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein (October-November 1942). Here the British Eighth Army led by General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) crushed the Axis army led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944). This was followed a few days later by Operation Torch, the amphibious landing of three Allied armies in French Morocco and Algeria. The Axis armies were pushed back into holding a small pocket in Tunisia around the port of Tunis. The Allied objective now was to take total control of North Africa, which would permit an invasion of Axis-occupied Europe starting with Sicily and then mainland Italy, as had long been promised to Britain's and the United States' ally Russia, then fighting alone on the Eastern Front.

The Axis powers had been cornered in Tunisia, but they still had some bite, as was shown in Rommel's victory against mostly inexperienced US troops at the battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943. In the long term, though, the Allies were now shipping in so many men and material to North Africa that the Axis days were numbered there, especially as their own supply lines became increasingly imperilled by Allied bombing and naval attacks. The Allies could field 19 well-equipped divisions against the depleted 13 Axis divisions left in Tunisia. "Nearly 1,200 Allied tanks were concentrated against 130 belonging to the Axis; in artillery 1,500 guns were opposed by just under 500; and in the air over 3,000 aircraft dominated 500" (Liddell Hart, 278).

WWII North Africa Campaign, 1940-1943

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

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RAF Kittyhawks.

Medenine Airfield.

Tunisia, 1943.

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A British 17-pdr anti-tank gun in action on the Medenine front in Tunisia, 11 March 1943

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French court to investigate murder of Djerba pilgrim

Following the shooting attack on the Tunisian synagogue of La Ghriba during the Lag Ba’Omer pilgrimage, a French court dealing with terrorist incidents (PNAT) has launched an investigation into the death of  Benjamin Hadad, 42, who had French nationality, according to i-24 News. The other victim, Aviel Hadad, had joint Tunisian-Israeli nationality

Benjamin Hadad (left) and Aviel Hadad, the murder victims

The court  opened on Wednesday “an investigation of the head of the assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise”. The investigations were entrusted to the General Directorate of Internal Security ( DGSI).

The attack, which took place as hundreds of worshippers were completing the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba Synagogue, the oldest in Africa, left five dead: three security guards and the two aforementioned Jewish worshippers. The five victims were shot in front of the synagogue by the assailant.

“The attack on the Ghriba synagogue upsets us. We are thinking with pain of the victims, of the Tunisian people, our friends. We stand alongside the family of our murdered compatriot”,  President Emmanuel Macron responded in a message published on Twitter. The Central Consistory of France on Wednesday condemned the attack “as cowardly as it is odious”.

In Tunisia, “a preliminary criminal investigation has been opened,” said Fethi Bakkouche, spokesperson for the court in Medenine (southeast Tunisia), whose jurisdiction covers the island of Djerba.

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Details emerge of the murder of five at Tunisian synagogue

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Medenine: Partial opening of Ras Jedir border post to diplomats and emergency cases

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Municipal Solid Waste Segregation Management Machinery in Tunisia

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Events 3.6 (after 1940)

1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. 1943 – World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town. 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins. 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 1951 – Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British. 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. 1964 – Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. 1967 – Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. 1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193. 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. 2003 – Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board. 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. 2018 – Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth. 2020 – Thirty-two people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.

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From Matmataover berber country to Djerba

Early getting up, no shower cold water, good breakfast. On a tour with guys from night before and korean women and finnish man, 60 €. We saw few berber villages, few spits from Star wars, had lunch. They left me at Medenine and I took loage to Djerba, 8TDN. From station to Radison Blue hotel 75 € I took taxi 6 TDN. Shower and to spa, pool and sauna.

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Tunisia, 4 morti e più di 40 intossicati per alcol adulterato

Quattro persone sono morte e più di 40 altre sono rimaste intossicate dopo aver ingerito alcol adulterato nel sud della Tunisia. È stata aperta un’indagine per accertare le circostanze dei fatti e la persona che ha fornito la bevanda è stata arrestata, ha detto il portavoce del tribunale di Medenine. Sono in corso le analisi per determinare l’esatta composizione della sostanza che ha causato…

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Tunisia, Libya agree to share responsibility for providing shelter for migrants stranded on border

Humanitarian officials have reported at least 25 deaths of migrants abandoned in the Tunisian-Libyan border area since last month.

TUNIS: Tunisia and Libya announced on Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded in a border area, many of them for a month.

A spokesman for Tunisia’s interior ministry, Faker Bouzghaya, said during a joint meeting with Libyan authorities in Tunis that “we have agreed to share the groups of migrants who are at the border”.

The migrants, primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, had been taken to the desert area of Ras Jedir by Tunisian authorities, according to witnesses, rights groups and UN agencies.

Aid groups said three groups of about 300 migrants in total remain stranded there.

“Tunisia will take charge of a group of 76 men, 42 women and eight children,” Bouzghaya told AFP.

He said the groups were transferred on Wednesday to reception centres in the cities of Tatouine and Medenine and provided with health and psychological care, with the help of the Tunisian Red Crescent.

Under the agreement, Libya will take charge of the remaining 150 migrants, humanitarian sources said.

The Libyan interior ministry earlier on Thursday announced the bilateral agreement to “put an end to the crisis of irregular migrants stranded in the border area”.

Racial tensions had flared in Tunisia’s second city of Sfax after the July 3 killing of a Tunisian man following an altercation with migrants.

Up to 1,200 black Africans were “expelled, or forcibly transferred by Tunisian security forces” to desert border regions with Libya and Algeria, Human Rights Watch said.

Crossing attempts have multiplied in March and April following a incendiary speech by President Kais Saied who had alleged that “hordes” of irregular migrants were causing crime and posing a demographic threat to the mainly Arab country.

Humanitarian officials have reported at least 25 deaths of migrants abandoned in the Tunisian-Libyan border area since last month.

Xenophobic attacks targeting black African migrants and students have increased across the country since Saied’s February remarks, and many migrants have lost jobs and housing.

The two countries are major gateways for migrants and asylum seekers primarily from other parts of Africa, attempting perilous voyages in often rickety boats in the hopes of a better life.

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Honeycomb-like aboveground granaries (ghorfas) of the Ouerghemma tribe in Medenine, Tunisia

French vintage postcard

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Wochenende im Gouvernorat Medenine Medenine ist ein Gouvernorat im Südosten Tunesiens und bietet zahlreiche Sehenswürdigkeiten und Möglichkeiten für Abenteuerlustige und Naturliebhaber. Hier sind einige Aktivitäten, die man an einem Wochenende in Medenine unternehmen kann: Tag 1: Entdeckung der alten Höhlenwohnungen von Matmata Matmata ist eine kleine Stadt, die bekannt ist für ihre einzigartigen Höhlenwohnungen. Man […]

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Kittyhawk Mk.III, 1943. by Etienne du Plessis Via Flickr: Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No 112 Squadron, preparing to depart from Medenine, Tunisia, on a sortie. The pilot of FR440 `GA-V', is waiting for the section leader in the farthest aircraft to move out. May 1943

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Scots Guards Sgt Vic Mutch MM & Sgt Joe Stephenson MM inspect a knocked-out German Panzer IV after the Battle of Medenine, 6 March 1943

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Povprečna cena za zamenjavo kuhinjske pipe

Običajno je povprečni strošek zamenjave kuhinjske pipe odvisen od nekaj dejavnikov. To lahko doda vrsto pipe, ki jo potrebujete, stroške namestitve, določen material, iz katerega je izdelana, in število delov, ki jih je treba zamenjati. Upoštevanje teh osnovnih poudarkov vam bo zagotovo pomagalo izbrati popoln stil in vrsto pipe za vaš dom ter se izogniti nepotrebnim izdatkom.

Možnosti materialov za izbiro

Najprej se odločite za novo pipo. Na voljo je veliko možnosti, od plastičnega materiala do medenine, cinka, bakra, brona in kroma. Bakrene pipe so običajno med najdražjimi vrstami, nekatere pa so običajno zaključene v zeleni ali modri barvi. Če je za vas pomembna vzdržljivost, se prepričajte, da bo material, ki ga izberete, vzdržal pogosto uporabo.

Stroški zamenjave nove kuhinjske pipe

Stroški za zamenjavo domače pipe se lahko gibljejo od 100 do 2000 USD. Nekateri elementi postopka sestavljanja se lahko izkažejo za težje in posameznik bo morda moral imeti možnost, da za delo najame akreditiranega izvajalca. To bo pomenilo dodatnih 50 dolarjev do 500 dolarjev skupni prodajni ceni. Pipa srednjega razreda lahko stane le 99 USD, medtem ko ima lahko veliko dražja pipa več lastnosti in dodatne opreme.

Posameznik bi moral poskrbeti tudi za dostopnost vodovodnega tehnika za tovrstne projekte. Zamenjava neke vrste kuhinjske pipe ne bo hitra naloga ter sposobnosti in izkušenj. To lahko traja dve do tri ure, da izkušeni inštalater dokonča delo. Ne glede na to, ali najamete novega vodovodarja ali naredite sami, morate poznati ceno in trenutek. Časovni okvir za nastavitev nove nove pipe je določen z več dejavniki, kot sta velikost in stanje vašega kuhinjskega pomivalnega korita in ali potrebujete kakršne koli spremembe vodovodne napeljave za namestitev najnovejše pipe.

Odvisno od kompleksnosti, povezane z delom, lahko vodovodar plača več kot dvesto dolarjev. Kljub temu, če oseba to naredi sama, lahko domnevate, da boste prihranili denar pri stroških dela, če določeno delo poteka brez težav. Če se izkaže, da je pretežko, boste morda želeli poklicati vodovodarja.

Standardni stroški za zamenjavo nivito znašajo med 160 in 345 USD. Stroški se lahko zlahka povečajo na več kot 500 USD, če oseba najame strokovnjaka za vodovodne instalacije. Če to storite sami, bo cena približno 90 $. V primeru, da dobite vodovodarja, boste morali plačati tudi delo za namestitev popolnoma nove pipe.

��tevilo dejavnikov

Skupni stroški zamenjave nove kuhinjske pipe bodo odvisni od vrste dejavnikov, kot so vrsta pipe, ki jo nameščate, kakovost materialov in individualni najem vodovodarja. Različni modeli imajo različne stopnje, zato je ključnega pomena, da poleg primerjave cen raziščete, tik preden se odločite za novo pipo za svojo kuhinjo.

Ko posameznik ve, koliko lahko porabite, lahko začne nakupovati vašo novo pipo. Najprej se prepričajte, da poznate posebno velikost vašega trenutnega umivalnika. Če je res premajhna, ima lahko posameznik težave pri odstranitvi dobre stare pipe. Želeli boste verjeti, koliko lukenj ima vaša obstoječa pipa. V primeru, da zamenjate obstoječo pipo, ki ima umivalnik z dvema luknjama, je verjetno ne boste mogli namestiti brez veliko funkcij.