Day: April 5, 2018

ATUGE addresses ways to turn mobility of Tunisian talents into opportunity

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“A new approach is required to turn the mobility of Tunisian talents into an opportunity,” Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Slim Khalbous Thursday told participants in the 27th edition of the Annual Forum of the Network of Tunisian Students and Graduates of top French Engineering and Business Schools (French: ATUGE). The event was held in Tunis on the theme: “Mobility of Talents: Opportunities and Challenges for Tunisians.” Rolling out a strategy intended to capitalise on Tunisians’ mobility, the Minister said there are three major thrusts, namely specialisation, a…

Journalists should work together to drive quality reporting, says Google

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Cooke noted that collaboration among journalists from various media organisations will tackle the challenge of verification. With the demand for quality journalism and information that people can trust growing as high as ever been, it would be best for journalists to band together and collaborate in gathering news and fact-checking, a senior official at Google said during the 17th Arab Media Forum in Dubai on Wednesday. London-based Matt Cooke, head of Google News Lab International, said news organisations should work together and utilise technology effectively in order to survive the…

Tunisia plans to launch solar and wind projects worth USD 1 billion in a tender

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Tunisia will launch a global tender on April 27 to build 2.5 billion Tunisian dinars (USD1 billion) solar and renewable wind power plants, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said on Thursday. Speaking at an energy conference that the tender aims to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity from solar and wind power in the regions of Kairouan, Tozeur, Tataouine, Sidi Bouzid and Qebli without giving details. Tunisia said in March it would invest 12 billion dinars in electricity and other energy projects from 2018 to 2020. At that time, it mentioned projects…

ECRE denounces mass deportations of migrants from Algeria

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Some migrants claim that they were abused by Algerian officials before and during their deportations. Algeria is one of several North African countries that have not signed an African Union protocol on the free circulation of people. Organizations in the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) have denounced that Algeria has recently deported hundreds of African migrants as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. Algeria has repatriated 27,000 sub-Saharan migrants since 2015, according to Interior Minister Nouredine Bedoui, who added that repatriations are still ongoing. 27,000 migrants forced…