Tunisia ranks 53rd in Global Illicit Trade Environment Index 2018: urgent measures needed to combat this scourge

The Tunisian-American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham Tunisia), Presented Thursday at a press conference held in Tunis the report which recommends « strengthening interagency cooperation at the national level, raising the profile on illicit trade, granting necessary financial and personnel resources and more aggressively enforcing anti-illicit trade regulations, mainly in the areas of Intellectual Property Rights violations and untaxed and unregulated parallel (grey) market imports. » Tunisia Ranked 53rd out of 84 countries by the Global Illicit Trade Environment Index that measures the vulnerability of states Faced with this kind of trade.…

AmCham Tunisia to organise conference on fight against illicit trade

AmCham Tunisia is organising on Thursday a conference on the fight against illicit trade in Tunisia and the Maghreb in cooperation with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Transnational Alliance for Combating Illegal Trade (TRACIT) and Philip Morris International. The conference aims to highlight the latest updates on the illicit trade drivers from a global perspective and at the Maghreb scale, to improve awareness and understanding of the regulatory environment and the economic pillars contributing to the illicit trade prevention, according to a statement issued by AmCham Tunisia on Wednesday. The conference…

Deadline for projects of solar and wind energy tenders in Tunisia extended

Bids for the development of 70 MW of solar project and 130 MW of wind projects have been extended by two months i.e. to October 18, 2018. They were set for August 15, 2018, according to the Ministry of Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises. The capacity of the solar energy project for which tenders are being issued is divided into two categories: the first category applies to six projects with a maximum capacity of 10 megawatts, for a total capacity of 60 megawatts, and the second category, for a total…

CONECT, CDC sign partnership agreement

On the sidelines of the sixth conference of the Confederation of Tunisian Citizen Enterprises (CONECT)  on the Corporate Social Responsibility and Support for Entrepreneurship, a partnership agreement was inked between CONECT and the deposits and consignment fund (CDC). The gathering was attended by Minister of Industry and SMEs, Slim Feriani, CDC Director-General Boutheina Ben Yaghlène and CONECT President Tarak Cherif. The conference aimed to popularize the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility as a tool for corporate integration and rescue, given the new exigencies of the market. According to the participants,…

DW Akademie launches MEDIA LOVES TECH in Tunis

Digital solutions for viable journalism in Tunisia The MEDIA LOVES TECH Conference started on Monday, October 22, 2018, in Tunis with the participation of world-renowned lecturers at the initiative of  DW Akademie in partnership Al Khatt organization. Being held for the first time in Tunisia, this event is a competition which is seeking to identify the best digital concepts for an innovative and high-quality journalism. The MEDIA LOVES TECH event is a propitious opportunity for the Journalists, startuppers, developers, designers, associations and bodies to take stock of innovative journalism with…

Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum in Tunis

The 20th Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum was organised Sunday in Tunis by the Global Child Nutrition Foundation and the World Food Programme (WFP) Centre of Excellence against Hunger, in partnership with host countries. The five-day Forum aims to start an open dialogue and share experiences, best practices, and challenges as well as options for sustainable support for nutrition-based school feeding programs using local products. The Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum is held for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where school feeding programs…

Startup system to take shape in first quarter of 2019

Minister of Communication Technology and Digital Economy Anouar Maarouf revealed at a plenary session of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) on Monday, that the startup system, namely the fund of funds and the portal of startups, will become concrete in the first quarter of 2019. He said that his department is striving to reach consensus for appointing a president to head the committee granting the label “startup” and guarantee the presence of the public and private sectors including 4 private experts and experts within this structure. Maarouf reminded that Tunisia…

Bizerte hosts first Blue Economy Forum

The resort city of Bizerte hosted Saturday the first edition of the Blue Economy Forum which opened in the presence of Tunisian and foreign experts in sea and ocean resources management and protection. The blue economy consists in the sustainable management of water resources and ocean protection for present and future generations. Researcher Kais Hammami said that the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (French: ITES), which is organising the two-day forum, strives to make of the Blue Economy Forum an important destination in maritime activities. The ITES blue economy strategy…

Hackathon: First edition of Tech talks by Tayara

The first edition of the Hackathon organized by Tayara opened on Saturday in Tunis.  The event is a new model of innovation which is expanding worldwide, gathers students and companies who are interested in accelerating a project, to identify new talents or to be known in the business sphere. According to the organizers the Hackathon consists in a rally of voluntary IT developers to develop collaborative programming. Made up of “Hack” and “marathon”, its principle is a non-stop work of small teams for 24 hours so as to foster the…

Ibn Khaldoun-Senghor Translation Award bestowed to Tunisia

The Ibn Khaldoun-Senghor 2018 Translation Award was granted to the French-Arabic translation of Sylvie Patron’s social sciences work “Le Narrateur, Introduction à la théorie narrative” (“Narrator, Introduction to Narrative Theory”). The Arabic translation, entitled “Arraoui, Madkhal Ela Annadharya Assardya,” was published in 2017 by the Tunis Translation Centre. The announcement was made at a meeting of the jury of Ibn Khaldoun – Senghor award of literary and humanities translation from French to Arabic chaired by Tunisian Mohamed Mahjoub, the International Organisation of La Francophonie revealed. The jury met on October…