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The Tunisian commission for the fight against covid-19 decided at a meeting Monday to re-open the country’s land, air, and sea borders on June 27 as the health crisis is coming under control. Tunisian returnees will be subject to a seven-day mandatory quarantine in a hotel at their own expense and an additional seven days […]
UGTT rejects any foreign intervention in Libya from Tunisian territory. The US military command for Africa, AFRICOM, has denied reports it is seeking to deploy a brigade in Tunisia to counter Russia’s influence in neighboring Libya. The offer to deploy the US Security Force Assistance Brigades in Tunisia over Russia’s activities in Libya […]
Mohsen Marzouk, candidate at last year presidential elections in Tunisia and leader of Machrouu Tounes has received death threats from foreign spy services, a party member has revealed. Fadhel Mahfoudh, former chairman of Tunis bar and member of the opposition party, said on Facebook that Marzouk has been warned by domestic security forces to watch […]
The Tunisian army has secretly repatriated 25 Indian nationals stranded in the North African country amid covid-19 pandemic, Tribune India reports. The group of 25 Indians touched down at Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on a special military aircraft on Saturday, the media says. The plane was on its way to bring back home Tunisian […]
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, has lent Tunisia €18.3 million earmarked for the fight against the COVID-19 health crisis. The Tunisian cabinet Friday validated the loan, which was signed on May 11. The North African country needs $157 million in addition to external sources to roll out anti-covid-19 national policy. The IBRD […]
Tunisia Thursday said mosques and restaurants will open for business from June 4 as part of the second phase of lockdown easing process. The announcement was made by Lobna Jeribi, minister of big projects, who also indicated the progressive resumption of schools from May 26, starting with Kindergarten. Authorities of the North African country began […]
L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), also known as Francophonie, has postponed to next year its 18th summit, initially scheduled for December 2020 in Tunisia, over the covid-19 pandemic. “Due to the health crisis that has hit the entire world and the various uncertainties that stem from it, Tunisia proposed that the summit takes place […]
The Tunisian Tourism Minister Wednesday announced the allocation of nearly $172 million (TND500 million) in the form of loans to help hotels cope with adverse effects of covid-19. Mohamed Ali Toumi said the credit will be available till March next year, but only for one-star to three-star hotels which lost 25 per cent of their […]
The Ehmi application, available on Android and currently being validated on iOS, was developed free of charge by a Tunisian start-up that usually creates digital marketing tools for foreign companies. If a person using the application tests positive, the Observatory of Emerging Diseases (ONME) will warn other users who have crossed paths with the phone, […]
Tunisia Monday posted 27 per cent slump in tourism revenues from the previous year as the country struggles to contain the covid-19 disease. The figures, issued by the Central Bank of Tunisia, revealed that tourism revenues stood over the first quarter of the year at about $339,411,000. The decrease in revenues occurs after a bounce […]