Day: June 11, 2024

640 million people in COMESA,market with significant opportunities for Tunisians

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Tunisia will soon join COMESA’s real-time e-payment platform The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) offers great opportunities for cooperation and investment potential for Tunisian businessmen, said Teddy Yagambaram Soobramanien Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the COMESA Business Council (CBC), during a parallel workshop at the seventh edition of the international conference ‘Financing Investment and Trade in Africa / Fita 2024’. ‘COMESA is one of the largest regional economic blocs in Africa, which makes it a key gateway to trade development in the continent,’ Subramanian said during a…

Fourth edition of INNOVA FOR TUNISIA LAB launched in Tunis

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The fourth edition of the ‘LAB INNOVA FOR TUNISIA 2024’ management training project was inaugurated on Monday in Tunis. The event, organised by the ITA/ICE – Italian Agency for Foreign Trade, in collaboration with its training office in Rome, was attended by the Italian Ambassador to Tunis, Alessandro Prunas, and Minister of Communication Technologies, Nizar Ben Néji. At the opening ceremony, Ambassador Prunas underlined the importance of technology and ICTs as areas of development for Italian-Tunisian collaboration, recalling the recent signing of a memorandum to strengthen exchanges and expertise between…

From January to May, Tunisia prevents 30,281 undocumented migrants from crossing Mediterranean

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Tunisia thwarted attempts by around 30,281 undocumented migrants to reach Italy via the Mediterranean in the first five months of 2024, the Tunisian National Guard said on Tuesday. ‘During the same period, Tunisian Maritime Guard units thwarted 1,041 attempts to smuggle migrants to the Italian coast,’ the National Guard said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. It added that Sea Guard units also recovered 462 bodies of illegal migrants, including seven Tunisian nationals. Located in the central Mediterranean, Tunisia is one of the most popular transit points for…