Year: 2017

Tunisia plans to launch long-awaited reforms to reduce its chronic budget deficit, but the measures could harm investment if the government imposes new taxes and resists cutting the bloated public sector in order to avoid social unrest. A baker prepares a tray of baguettes at a bakery in Tunis, Tunisia, December 1, 2017.Picture taken December 1, 2017. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi The International Monetary Fund is in Tunis this week to review the government’s efforts to fix an economy in turmoil since President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in the first…

The launch of a new shipping line between Tunisia and China will help Tunisia recover its regional positioning and enhance China’s presence in African continent, Tunisian authorities and locally-based foreign investors said Friday. The Spanish company Transglory has just inaugurated a new maritime trade line linking Tunisian Rades port and Chinese Qingdao port in the northern suburbs of the capital Tunis. “Importing and exporting to and from this Chinese destination are consolidating similar services from other leading ports,” Louis Florensa, chief of Transglory Development Department told Xinhua during an interview.…

A regional aviation security training center will be set up in Tunisia to implement and support national and regional aviation safety training programs, an official said Thursday. The operation of the training center will be under auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization (OACI), Hassen Seddik, the founder and president of the Tunisian-French Civil Aviation Security Training Academy (AFSAC) said at a press conference. “This center will be a pride for Tunisia as well as the Arab world,” AFSAC Executive Director Mostafa Abdelaal told Xinhua. “The various players in civil…

“We are not in war against Yemen we are in war for Yemen and for the sake of Yemen”, said Saudi ambassador in Tunis Mohamed bin Mahmoud Al Ali during a meeting with the press held Thursday in the embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Tunis. The Saudi ambassador noted that the Kingdom of Saudi of Arabia responded to the call of the legitimate president with the collaboration of the United Nations Resolution to resume the legitimate rule in Yemen on one hand and to strive to ensure…

Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh held talks with Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Al-Chahed and Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Fawzi bin Abdulrahman on Tuesday. The talks dealt with cooperation in the areas of employment and ways to coordinate social policies of both countries, Minister Al-Sabeeh, also Minister of State for Economic Affairs, told KUNA and Kuwait TV. She noted that her meeting with the Tunisian Premier took place on the fringes of the Arab ministerial conference on the integration of the social aspects of the…