Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission Outlines Decades of Abuse

Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission made public, on March 26, 2019, its five-volume report analyzing and exposing the institutional networks that enabled human rights abuses over five decades, Human Rights Watch said. The commission outlined the role of former presidents and other top officials in the torture, arbitrary detention, and numerous other abuses of thousands of Tunisians. The commission documented abuses not only against political opponents but against their families, including sexual assaults of the wives and daughters of opposition members. “The real test of Tunisia’s willingness to confront its…

Tunis International Book Fair opens

The 35th edition of the Tunis International Book Fair opened Friday and will run till next April 15. The official opening was attended by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed and Minister of Cultural Affairs Mohamed Zine El Abidine. The Prime Minister seized this opportunity to call on Tunisians to come in large numbers to this annual meeting of the faithful and friends of the book and encourage writers and publishers. He visited a number of stands including those of the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the…

Tunisia endeavours to implement digital blockchain

Tunisia has become the first state to endeavour in implementing a blockchain-based distributed-ledger digital currency in a global drive of developed and developing economies to migrate toward cashless economies, says Walid Driss, the Tunis-based founder and chief executive of DigitUS Tech. Driss, a US-educated Tunisian engineer, has already instituted a blockchain-based digital payment system called DigiCash with La Poste Tunisienne, Tunisia’s postal service, and is working with the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), and the BCT governor Marouane El Abassi to explore and study the launch of a national digital…

Tunisia’s BCT doubles net income in 2018

The Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) has doubled its net profit at the end of 2018, to over 881.3 million dinars (MD), against 385.8 MD at the end of 2017. According to the Bank’s financial statements, posted on its website on Thursday, the BCT realized proceeds of 1.246 billion dinars, mainly from “Income from Money Market Intervention Transactions”(more than 1 billion dinars in 2018, against 474 MD in 2017). These products concern, in particular, interest earned on its interventions through tenders, but also firm purchases of treasury bills, in the…