October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsThe Tunisian government seeks to organise an international seminar about development planning to lure international and regional financing companies. The companies will finance the development plan from 2016 until 2020. The government aims to overcome the current economic challenges through the development plan mapped out for the first ti...
October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsTunisian President Beji Essebsi will arrive to Cairo on Sunday as part of a two-day visit to Egypt, the Tunisian presidency announced on Wednesday. President Essebsi was invited by his Egyptian counterpart President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to visit Egypt during former PM Ibrahim Mahlab's visit to Tunis earlier this month. According to the Tu...
October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsPrime Minister Habib Essid had a meeting Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the sidelines of his participation in the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit and the high-level debate of the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting focused on “the progress of the democratic process in...
October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsTunisia announced, Tuesday evening, its membership in the international coalition to defeat Islamic State militant group (Daesh). The announcement was given, Tuesday in New York in remarks of President Beji Caid Essebsi delivered on his behalf by Prime Minister Habib Essid. “Presently Tunisia examines the fields of contribution to the int...
October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsA delegation of security and military officials arrived, Tuesday evening, on a two-day working visit in Tunis. Seen in at Tunis-Carthage International airport by Messrs. Najem Gharsalli and Farhat Horchani, Ministers of Interior and National Defence, respectively, the Belgian delegation is made up of Belgian deputy Prime Minister and Secu...
October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsSpokesman of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahda Osama Al-Saghir denied that his movement had asked Iran to mediate with the Syrian regime regarding the Tunisian detainees in Syria, Rassd.com reported yesterday. In a statement posted on the movement’s official Facebook page, Al-Saghir said that all information about such mediation is f...
October 1st, 2015 | 0 commentsForeign Minister Taïeb Baccouche underlined the need for Tunisia and Mauritania to work in concert to defeat terrorism. It is of paramount importance that the 17th meeting of the Tunisia-Mauritania Joint Commission be held in the shortest possible time, Baccouche said as he conferred with his Mauritanian opposite number Hammadi Ould Meimo...
September 30th, 2015 | 0 commentsFluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it has signed a three-year agreement with Sasol Group Technology to perform a range of projects as an integrated team at Sasol’s facilities in Secunda and Sasolburg, South Africa. The primary objective of the agreement is for Fluor and Sasol to collaborate on small and mid-sized oil and g...
September 30th, 2015 | 0 commentsGovernments in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) will spend $11.4 billion (Dh41.9 billion) on IT products and services in 2015, according to research firm Gartner, Inc. Telecom services, which include fixed and mobile telecom services, will be the largest overall spending category throughout the forecast period within government sec...
September 30th, 2015 | 0 commentsTunisia is seeking to achieve economic growth of 2.5 % in 2016, compared with an expected 0.5 % in 2015, said Finance Minister Slim Chaker. Tunisia will adopt economic reforms next year in the banking and fiscal sectors which would strengthen the economy and boost foreign investment, the minister told Tunisian state news agency. Tunisia e...
