Day: January 5, 2018

Positive tourism outlook for Tunisia after successful 2017

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-Thomas Cook chooses Djerba to hold its annual congress.  -Tui UK & Ireland reintroduces Tunisia for summer 2018. Thomas Cook, the second European tour operator, has chosen the island of Djerba to organise its annual congress due on January 7-11, 2018 TAP reports. The congress will be marked by the participation of no less than 300 French travel agents. Visits of hotels and tourist sites in the island are scheduled as part of this congress, which will officially begin on January 8. The aim is to further encourage the marketing…

Extra $600 Million given by Trump administration to Middle East and N. Africa Allies to combat ISIS

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The Trump administration has given the Pentagon $600 million more to arm and aid  allies in the Middle East and North Africa in their battle against the remnants of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) following its defeat in Iraq and Syria, Al-Monitor reports. The Defense Department is giving arms packages and assisting special forces units to better equip countries to battle the domestic and external threat of homegrown or returning jihadis who sympathize with ISIS’s ideology, according to congressional records seen by Al-Monitor. The global increase in security assistance that the Pentagon gives…