Tunisian President Kais Saied Thursday distanced himself from the government’s decision to decree a nationwide curfew for two weeks in view of curbing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Hichem Mechichi-led government and the scientific committee overseeing the pandemic decided early this week a set of measures including a two-week night curfew starting from July […]
Morocco and Germany inked on Tuesday a new cooperation program worth 5.6 million Euros destined to enhance the Kingdom’s water resilience in rural areas. The four-year program will support the actions of hydraulic agencies of Tensift, Sebou, and Ziz-Guir-Rhéris. It seeks to improve the living conditions of rural populations and improve their resilience to climate […]
In order to deal with the envisaged decline in state revenues, Tunisia is planning to introduce tax hikes and subsidy cuts in the budget for 2014. Not surprisingly, this unpopular call has already triggered a wave of controversy, while economists agree that all in all the entire draft of the 2014 budget is inevitably facing […]
