Italian police searches linked to Amri Italy jail contacts

According to ANSA Italian police carried out today raids in connection with contacts Berlin Christmas market killer Anis Amri had while in jail for four years in Italy, sources said. One search took place near Latina south of Rome, they said. Police said the searches were carried out against persons in radical Islamist circles. Amri, 24, who killed 12 people in Berlin on December 19 and was shot dead by Italian police near Milan December 23, is believed to have been radicalised while in an Italian jail, underlined ANSA. ANSA…

Five killed, fifty-four injured in train-bus collision in Tunis

Five people were killed and 54 were injured in Wednesday’s Jebel Jloud train-bus collision, according to the Health Ministry’s last toll. Three support and psychological assistance units to the injured and the families of the victims were set up in several hospitals in Tunis. The accident took place when a train collided at about 6:15 AM with a Regional Transport Company bus in Sidi Fathallah, Jebel Jloud in Tunis. President Beji Caied Essebsi criticised the nonchalance of the Tunisian administration, following the collision. Essebsi said during the visit he paid…

More migrants are leaving Germany on their own before the country can deport them

If 2015 was the year in which Germany opened its doors to refugees, 2016 was when the country pondered how to close them. Although the influx of refugees peaked more than a year ago, attacks like the one in Berlin on Dec. 19 have led to demands that Germany refuse entry to individuals without passports and step up deportations of criminals and terrorism suspects. Authorities hope that another trend will have a bigger effect in the short run: migrants deciding to go back because they are fed up with Germany or fear deportation.…

Sarah Jane Morris shoots video in Pompei on migrants

Jazz and soul album on refugees and violence against women NAPLES – The British jazz and soul singer Sarah Jane Morris shot the video for her ‘The Sea’ among the ruins of Pompeii in commemoration of the migrants who have died trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean Sea. The video clip was recorded alongside guitarist Anonio Falcone in the small theater of the archeological site and in some places in the Villa dei Misteri. The song is part of the album ‘Compared to What’, which includes others on refugees,…

Tunisia to decide on plan against returning extremists

Tunisian ministers will meet Thursday to decide on an action plan against extremists returning from foreign battlefields, a government source said, as fears mount they could destabilize the North African country. The ministerial meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed follows a number of gatherings between security and judicial experts on the matter. “There will be a ministerial meeting tomorrow with a view to launching a strategic action plan,” the source in the prime minister’s told media Wednesday. The United Nations estimates that more than 5,500 Tunisians are…

The week Events as seen by Historian Khaled Abid

The hearing sessions with the minister of interior and the minister of foreign affairs and the facts revealed behind the assassination of martyr engineer Mohamed Zouari as well as the Berlin attack have been the most important events happened last week. In addition to that, an inner cabinet meeting was held in Tunis and a Libyan aircraft was kidnapped. All these events are interpreted by historian Khaled Abid. He  thinks that anti-normalization of relations with Israel should not be a debatable  topic because all Tunisians share the same opinion about…

Shell to Sell Share in African Fuel Distributor to Vitol for $250 M

Shell said Friday that it will sell its 20% shareholding in Vivo Energy to Vitol Africa B.V. for $250 million. Vivo Energy, the Shell licensee in 16 African markets, was established Dec. 1, 2011, to distribute and market Shell-branded fuels and lubricants. Vivo Energy provides fuel solutions in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda. Its retail offering includes fuels, lubricants, card services, shops and other nonfuel services (e.g., oil changes). For businesses it provides fuels, lubricants and…

Tunisia: CEPEX adopts new approach in its international marketing program for 2017

The Board of Directors of the Export Promotion Center (CEPEX) decided during its regular meeting, on Monday in Tunis, a program of action towards external markets for the year 2017 aimed at strengthening and supporting the efforts of exporting companies in their efforts to position themselves on the international market. The center said in a statement that the program, which was developed in coordination with professional organizations and administrative structures, is based on five axes: “comprehensiveness”, “complementarity and interaction between different components “,” multi-stakeholder partnership “,” realism “,” diversity and…

EVADA Aircraft announces signing of agreement with USAID Tunisia.

EVADA Aircraft, the division of PM&E Inc. (OTC: PMEA),  announced the signing of an agreement with USAID Tunisia. Following the visit of USAID Tunisia to the premises of EVADA Aircraft in Tunisia, USAID Tunisia will assist EVADA Aircraft in finding the best candidates in line with EVADA Aircraft’s recruitment needs, through the organization of HR Workshop, and HR process restructuring and pre-employment training of new recruits. Sat Press News