Day: May 25, 2019

Saudi Arabia to host 14th Islamic Summit

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Saudi Arabia will host the 14th session of the Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Makkah on May 31, 2019, which will be chaired by the Custodian of the two holy mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The summit, to be attended by leaders members of OIC, will be held under the theme “Makkah Summit: Together for the Future” aims at developing a unified stance on current issues and events in the Islamic world. Senior officials will convene before the summit and will submit the…

Call for Tunisian start-ups to participate in Tokyo International Conference on African Development

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On the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a call for applications to Tunisian start-ups to participate (for free) in this Forum. The forum will be held August 28-30, 2019 in Yokohama, APII said on its website. Several issues will be addressed by TICAD new edition including the challenges of investment in infrastructure and energy sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) and JICA will propose solutions, from their respective experiences, to be developed with the private sector. Thematic sessions…

Tunisia joins the International Transport Forum

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Tunisia has joined the International Transport Forum (ITF) as the organisation’s 60th member. Ministers of transport from the 59 current member states agreed unanimously to admit the North African nation to the organisation at their Annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany, on 23 May. Tunisia is the organisation’s second member state on the African continent, joining Morocco, ITF reports in its website. The ITF is the only intergovernmental organisation with a global mandate for all transport modes. Housed by the OECD in Paris (France), the ITF acts as a think tank…

Elmed interconnector aims to bring solar power from the Sahara to Europe

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Italy and Tunisia have taken the first step to making this dream come true, as they signed an intergovernmental agreement for the development and joint construction of a 600-megawatt (MW) electricity link, DW reported in an article published on its website. On April 30, the governments of Italy and Tunisia signed a deal to lay an underwater power cable between Partanna, Sicily and El Haouaria, Tunisia, aiming to integrate the EU’s electricity grid with that of North Africa. A long time in the works, Italian transmission company Terna and Tunisian…