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AfDB warns of linking African loan payment to critical resources

Head of the African Development Bank called for an end to loans in exchange for oil or critical minerals, which helped countries like China control vast resources in the continent. In an interview with the Associated press, AFDB chief Akinwumi Adesina explained how such loans lead to undervaluing natural resources of African countries and further […]

IMF: Tunisia Feeble Growth Threatens Macroeconomic Stability

The Tunisian economy continues to suffer from major difficulties, including high external and fiscal deficits, increasing debt, while growth is too low to reduce unemployment, says the International Monetary Fund. “Tunisia’s fiscal and external deficits reached record levels. The wage bill has climbed to one of the highest in the world, and public debt further […]

COVID-19: Tunisia launches vaccine research

Tunisia’s Institut Pasteur has launched researches to come up with an anti-COVID-19 vaccine, Webdo Tunis reports. Hechmi Louzir, Head of the Tunis-based non-profit health organization indicated Tuesday that a team of the institute has begun working on a vaccine using the DNA technology. Louzir added that a committee from the ministry of health has been […]