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Dougga, Treasure of Tunisia lying over the hills

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Dougga is a highly proud city that witnesses the history of an ancient human civilization of over 25 centuries, and considered a cultural treasure of Tunisia, and one of the best-preserved regions of North Africa. Dougga is located in the northwest of Tunisia in a mountainous region surrounded by valleys and plateaus. The story began with Dougga with the Roman invasion and historians say that its history began even before the Roman invasion. Dougga has been a place of important human settlement, with cemeteries and a rock altar for boats…

8th anniversary of revolution and youth: PM receives youth civil society

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Prime Minister Youssef Chahed received, on Monday afternoon in Kasbah government palace, representatives of civil society organisations, on the occasion of the celebration of the 8th anniversary of the revolution and youth. The meeting provided the occasion to review the key points of the sectoral strategic vision for youth for the years 2019-2020. The Prime Minister stressed the importance of this gathering with members of youth civil society on the occasion of the celebration of the revolution and youth, a revolution “which was at the origin of the freedoms acquired…

SUCCESSFUL TECH MEET’UP DAY IN KAIROUAN, TUNISIA

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GFA has been implementing the GIZ-funded project Support to Cyberparcs in Tunisia since November 2017. The project aims at providing better services to business start-ups and young enterprises in the IT and digital sector via the government-owned cyberparcs, GFA-Consulting Group reports. The Kairouan, Monastir and Gafsa cyberparcs have been selected as pilots and are supported in establishing a new business model, offering attractive services and improving their regional networks. In this context, GFA has organized the TECH MEET’UP DAY in Kairouan on 22 November, 2018 as a networking and PR…

Bodybuilder Rehab Trabelsi, beautiful example of ambitious, life-loving woman

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Rehab Trabelsi .. 20 years old from Tunisia, live in Sousse and Business accounting student and she believes in this wisdom “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”— Henry David Thoreau 1- Tell us about your beginnings in bodybuilding I was a handball player and they told us to do some workouts for enhancement. At first, I started with only 2 sessions per week and then I can’t leave the gym until I come out of the association.…

Over 13,500 Tunisian migrants reached Italian coasts illegally in 4 years (Report)

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The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights revealed that more than 13,500 Tunisian migrants reached illegally Italian coasts in the past four years. The President of the forum, Massoud Romdhani said that from January to the end of November in 2018, the number of irregular migrants exceeded 6,000, against 569 in 2015. He said that 67 % of the people who left the Tunisian territory in a non-regulatory way were between the age of 20 and 30 years old and most of them were unemployed or in precarious jobs.…

Project of “Citizenship for Environmental Governance in Gabes (CIGEN)” presented

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The  “Gabès Action” Association held  Monday, a workshop on the project “Citizenship for an environmental governance in Gabes (CIGEN)”,  with the representatives of the companies, the local authorities and the public administrations of Gabès. This project gave birth to 17 environmental micro-projects in four delegations: Ghannouch, Gabes-Ouest, Gabès-ville and Gabès-Sud and a “water governance” platform was set up as part of this project so as to develop water management policies and ensuring better use of water resources in the region. A grant of some 1 MD was allocated for the…

19th edition of  SUP’COM Forum on the theme “Digital Tunisia, A Law For The Future”

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The 19th edition of the SUP’COM Forum was held on Wednesday December 12, 2019 in the Tunis Higher School of Communication (SUP’COM) on the theme “Digital Tunisia: A Law for the Future” with attendance of eminent figures from the area of digital communication including Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy Mohamed Anouar Maarouf as well as students in communication. The forum provided the opportunity to promote digital culture and innovation and an occasion for the exchange of ideas and knowledge for young students, graduates, companies and professors. This annual meeting, which this year…

EduCanada Fair due on December 4-5 in Tunis

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“EduCanada“ fair for Tunisian students wishing to study in this country, will be held on December 4-5 in Tunis by the Embassy of Canada to Tunisia. The event aimed to help students discover the training opportunities available in Canada. Representatives from accredited Canadian post-secondary institutions, such as language schools, colleges or universities, will be available to provide students with all the necessary information on tuition fees, bursaries and scholarships as well as accommodation. Representatives from the Canadian Embassy will inform them about the different types of visa available. Students wishing to…

Hult Prize Bizerte Campuses to organize On-campus Event on December 8

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The students and organizers of Hult Prize Bizerte Campuses will organize a hyper interesting and futuristic event called On-campus Event, on December 8 at the Faculty of Science Bizerte, which is the final quarter of this international competition, said Oumayma Hannachi, Vice-President and Marketing Coordinator at Hult Prize foundation in all the universities of Bizerte. She explained that during the day of the competition several students will form teams and will present their universities and schools in Bizerte. They will apply their startup idea to meet the challenge announced by…

Sejnane women’s pottery know-how inscribed on list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity

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Pottery skills of the women of Sejnane The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at UNESCO decided, at its 13th meeting held in Port Louis (Mauritius), from 26 November to 1 December 2018, to include women’s pottery know-how Sejnane on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, said Thursday afternoon the Permanent Delegation of Tunisia to Unesco in Paris. The Sejnane women’s pottery know-how is now included in the list of intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation…