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The World Bank has lent Tunisia $100 million for the financing of the covid-19 vaccination campaign in the North African country which still counts at least 1,037 active cases. The announcement was made by Férid Belhadj, World Bank Group Vice President for Middle East and North Africa on the sideline of a meeting with President […]
The World Bank has allocated Tunisia $300 million to help support more than one million Tunisian families living under the poverty line, the office of President Kais Saied said Monday. The announcement came following a meeting between the Tunisian President and Férid Belhadj, World Bank Group Vice President for MENA region. Financial support, the […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied is expected in Libya on wednesday, becoming thus the first foreign leader to visit the war-torn country since the establishment of a new central administration. The visit aims at backing the democratic process in Libya and at further enhancing relations between the two countries, the presidential office said. The visit […]
Tunisian prominent media businessman and journalist Sami Fehri said Sunday he would surrender to authorities on Tuesday after he was sentenced to eight years in prison in connection with a corruption case dating back to 2011. Tunis first instance court last week found the owner of Al-Hiwar Ettounsi TV guilty of corruption over the […]
A court in the Tunisian city of El Kef has slashed to 2 years the prison sentence of three young man arrested in January and condemned to 30 years in jail for possessing and smoking cannabis, a substance banned by the North African country. The court ruling came following a public outcry against the city’s […]
Tunisia counts more than 650,000 civil servants that is 5% of the total population of 12 million people, a number that weighs significantly on the state budget. Tunisia has more public sector employees compared to 568,000 in Morocco which has a population three times bigger. The IMF has urged the Tunisian government to cut the […]
Tunisia is afresh gripped with a new scandal as the cabinet says it has not been informed about doses of covid-19 vaccine offered to the country by the UAE. The North African country received from the UAE two months ago 1.000 doses of covid-19 vaccine for the immunization of politicians and high ranking officials, […]
Tunisia’s national carrier, TunisAir, will sign on March 05, a debt settlement agreement with the Civil Aviation and Airport Authority (OACA) and Turkish airport operator TAV Airports to which it owes several million euros, Webdo Tunis reports. TunisAir and TAV Airports managing Enfidha-Hammamet and Monastir HAbib Bourguiba airports have found themselves in a conflict […]
Tunisia’s Human rights League, LTDH, Thursday called on Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi to step down few hours after a meeting between the two sides. The call came in a statement issued by the organization without providing reasons for its call. Mechichi hours before the statement, received an LTDH delegation to discuss the state […]
New York-based credit rating agency, Moody’s, Tuesday downgraded Tunisia’s long-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer ratings to B3 from B2 with negative outlook. “Moody’s has also downgraded the Central Bank of Tunisia’s senior unsecured rating to B3 from B2 and the senior unsecured shelf rating to (P)B3 from (P)B2, and maintained the negative outlook. The […]