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Tunisia has received $700 million in credit facility from African Export–Import Bank known as Afreximbank. President Kais Saied, according to a statement by the state-run television, approved the credit line requested by the Central Bank of Tunis. The statement neither provided details on the period of the loan nor the interest rate. […]
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is planning to visit Tunisia “soon” and would announce resumption of one of his mega projects in the North African country. Sources told Egyptian media Acharaa that Sawiris might meet with “senior officials, including the Tunisian President.” “The meetings will discuss among others a mega tourism project in one of […]
Libya will take the brunt of Tunisia’s decision to ban export of vegetables in a bid to curb inflation, Libya Observer has commented as the oil-rich African country accounted for 60 per cent of the foreign market of Tunisia’s vegetable exports. Mohamed Ali Ferchichi, spokesman for Tunisia’s Ministry of Trade, indicated Wednesday that four vegetables […]
Libyan authorities have released 24 Tunisian fishermen who were arrested late last week. The fishermen were arrested on Friday on board three ships from Sfax and Mahdia, the Head of the Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights, Mustafa Abdelkabir, said. The latest release follows that of six other fishermen on April 5, after more than one […]
Tunisia Monday submitted its candidacy to host the new headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), several days after Egypt expressed willingness to provide a venue for the construction of the agency’s continental office. Tunisia’s Minister of Health Ali M’rabet made the offer as he received Aggrey John Douglas Ambali, an African Union (AU) official […]
Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets Sunday, April 10 in Tunis, for the largest protest against President Kais Saied since he took office. Despite numerous checkpoints and controls, hundreds of people gathered on Bourguiba Avenue, at the call of Islamist Ennahdha party and “Citizens Against the Coup”, a grassroots initiative. The demonstrators demanded the […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied issued Saturday a decree to compensate families of “martyrs” and police and army members killed or wounded, when defending the country during the 2011 revolution. The compensation, according to the decree, will be awarded to the families of “martyrs” and police and army killed or wounded defending the country from what […]
Moncef Marzouki, ex-Tunisian President, has urged lawmakers of the dissolved parliament to resume their activities and rise up against President Kais Saied, Tunisie Numerique reports. “It is your national duty, in honor of our martyrs on this solemn anniversary, to resume your activity and isolate the putsch as soon as possible and not to accept […]
Tunisia summoned the Turkish ambassador to Tunis over comments by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticizing the dissolution of the Tunisian parliament. Erdogan said sacking the parliament was contrary to “the will of the Tunisian people” and a “smear to democracy.” The Tunisian presidency rejected this as “an unacceptable meddling in Tunisia’s domestic affairs.” The Ministry […]
Washington will slash this year into two its military aid to Tunisia in reaction to the authoritarian path that the North African country has taken, reports say. The announcement was made by a spokesperson from the State Department in an email to Al Monitor. Tunisia, a strategic partner of the U.S., will receive […]