Ooredoo Tunisia lands in Sparkle’s Sicily hub

Sparkle, the International Services arm of TIM Group, and Ooredoo Global Services, the wholesale arm of Ooredoo, have today announced that Ooredoo Tunisia, a subsidiary of Ooredoo Group has successfully expanded its reach into Sparkle Sicily Hub, providing the company with a new Point of Presence in Europe and offering an enhanced data experience for consumers and businesses. The new launch is the latest in a series of initiatives that have resulted from Sparkle and Ooredoo Global Services’ strategic agreement, which was signed in April 2016. Ooredoo Tunisia’s new multiservice…

Italo-Arab business exchange set for March in Cagliari

3rd edition already has 10 businesses from eight countries The Italo-Arab Chamber of Cooperation (IACC) announced Tuesday that its 3rd annual international exhibition for Italo-Arab businesses will take place in the Sardinian capital March 17-18 at the city’s Regina Margherita hotel, with 10 businesses from eight countries already scheduled to attend. This year’s event, whose theme is “Italy and the Challenge of the Arab Markets”, aims to give the island’s businesses an opportunity to strengthen existing relationships or build new ones with companies from North Africa and the Middle East.…

Mosques and homes raided as police thwart ISIS terror threat in Germany

MOSQUES and homes across Germany have been raided in a massive police operation to thwart an Islamic State terror attack. Police stormed 54 houses and businesses, as well as Islamic places of worship, resulting in the arrest of a Tunisian Isis recruiter. The state of Hesse was swarming with officers in the early hours of the morning as police targeted extremists in the country. The operation was combating “serious state-threatening violence” officials revealed after a 26-year-old Tunisian people smuggler for ISIS was arrested. It is currently believed the man arrested…

How Tunisia’s young entrepreneurs are hoping to boost the economy

Two dozen casually dressed entrepreneurs were gathered around a Scandinavian-style wooden table, eating glazed pastries and pouring each other cups of coffee. They introduced themselves — web designer, graphic designer, gamer — in a mix of French, Arabic and English. With its sleek blond wood floors and rustic pallet sofas, we could have been at a hip cafe in Brooklyn or Berlin. But this is Startup Haus, a co-working space in downtown Tunis, just a stone’s throw from the city’s busiest intersection. Startup Haus, which opened in March 2016, is…

Tunisia tops North Africa countries in Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2017

Tunisia was ranked 77th worldwide According to the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2017 (GTCI) in a sample of 118 countries and first in the North Africa region of in terms of its talents’ attractiveness and competitiveness. The GTCI was launched January 16, 2017, by the Business School for the World (INSEAD). It assesses how countries grow, attract and retain talent and is a tool to help devise strategies to stimulate Competitiveness in terms of talent. During this 4th edition whose theme is “Talent and Technology: Shaping the Future of Work,”…

Serinus Energy Inc.: Production Resumes at Chouech Es Saida Field in Tunisia

Serinus Energy Inc. (“Serinus”, “SEN” or the “Company”) (TSX:SEN)(WARSAW:SEN) announces that it has resumed production at the Chouech Es Saida field in Tunisia. This field was initially shut-in on January 10, 2017, in anticipation of a three-day strike with production stoppage, as voted for by the Company’s employees at the Winstar Chouech Es Saida facilities, which began at midnight January 11, 2017. The labour action continued with a sit-in that persisted after the communicated work action, with the Company being unable to bring production back on line for safety and…

EU, North Africa green energy tie-up draws closer – Claude Ayache

An experimental project connecting renewable energy researchers in the EU with colleagues in Morocco and Tunisia could help pave the way for a market in renewable energy and energy efficiency that spans the Mediterranean, according to Claude Ayache, senior advisor for European affairs at the EU’s public-private green energy partnership, InnoEnergy. Why has InnoEnergy focused on a partnership with North Africa in the MAGHRENOV project? There have been two decades of effort to develop a European-Mediterranean innovation space in which people can collaborate and bring advances in research to market.…

Central bank of Tunisia hires banks for benchmark euro bond

The Central Bank of Tunisia, acting on behalf of the Republic of Tunisia, has mandated Natixis as global coordinator, and Commerzbank and JP Morgan as joint lead managers, for fixed income meetings in Europe commencing February 6, according to a lead. A euro-denominated senior unsecured Reg S benchmark transaction with an intermediate maturity may follow. The roadshow will visit Paris on February 6, London on February 7-8 and finish in Germany on February 9. The Central Bank of Tunisia is rated Ba3 negative by Moody’s and BB- negative by Fitch.…

Security enterprise strengthens Tunisian Air Force

Fifty-five foreign air force members have graduated a months-long training course on the OH-58D Kiowa during a ceremony at the Performing Arts Center of the Eastern New Mexico University in Roswell, New Mexico. The pilots and maintenance crew members from the Tunisian Air Force received training on the armed reconnaissance helicopter at the Roswell International Air Center as part of a foreign military sales case managed by the Security Assistance Command. “This graduation (held Dec. 21) brings together Tunisia’s capability of integrating air-ground operations utilizing the Bell Helicopter OH-58 Kiowa…