Month: October 2018

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018: 100 Tunisian students to take part in the challenge

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The “NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018” will be held on October 20-21 in the International Multidisciplinary School in Sousse, Tunisia. Some 100 Tunisian students will participate in this event during which the challengers have to find solutions for the NASA questions. The challengers will reveal its data during the challenge and find out innovative solutions for the challenges of the NASA. The “NASA Space Apps Challenge, which is organised for the third consecutive year in Sousse, is a competition that bolsters innovation and creativity. The winner will take part in…

Tunisia hosts CEED Global Conference

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Over 300 entrepreneurs and business leaders coming from 17 countries took part on October 18 and 19, 2018 in the Tunis Convention Centre, in the CEED Global Conference organised by the Center of Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED). Some world-known twenty speakers were present attended the event along with  Minister Industry and SMEs Slim Feriani and U.S. ambassador to Tunisia Daniel Rubinstein. CEED Global Conférence is an opportunity to explore new horizons of entrepreneurship and develop an action framework with the best strategies and practices for strengthening and developing businesses. The participants made…

Tunisia, France to launch e-health project soon

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Tunisia and France will launch soon a partnership project in the e-health field, Minister Adviser of France’s Embassy to Tunisia Laurent Viguié said as he took part in the 2nd edition of the France-Tunisia Health Forum, held on October 17-18 in Tunis. The project which is supported by the French Development Agency (AFD), will improve the hospital structures and develop them. AFD Director of digital technologies Gilles Chausse told media that some €27 million will be provided for projects in e-health and management of medicines in hospital structures. The forum…

Objective media is key to the truth

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It is clear that the missing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi arouses tremendous accusations and unlawful campaigns targeting Saudi Arabia and undermining the kingdom before any result of the official investigation. Unfortunately, some biased media tend to exploit this issue politically disseminating baseless rumors in order to harm the Saudi policy worldwide, for the simple reason that these specific media take the wrong way of a destructive interference in the fate of the states and their peoples. However, objective media which are known by their neutrality preferred in relation with…

Imported olive oil prices rise as fire devastates European crops

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Virgin olive oil prices are expected to rocket as crops have been hit by poor weather and devastating wildfires. Italian and Greek farmers are struggling this year, with their harvest down by nearly 60 per cent in some areas, while a smaller crop from Tunisia means worldwide production is set to dip 10 per cent. Wholesale prices of European extra virgin olive oil have already soared from €3,000 (R50 234) a ton to €6,000 (R100 000) a ton, in spite of a bigger than normal crop of Spanish olives.  In…

2019 draft budget does not include new taxes  

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The 2019 draft budget does not include new taxes on citizens the year to come and will cut the tax burden for some sectors to boost growth, a draft budget revealed. Besides, the 2019 finance bill pointed out the growth of the Tunisian economy in 2019 by 3.1 %. Estimates showed a jump 2.6 % against 1.9 % last year. The finance bill indicated that the 2019 budget would be 8% bigger than this year, totalling some 40.6 billion Tunisian dinars ($14.21 billion). Additionally, the budget deficit is declining to…

MSB student Aziz Saoudi meets the challenges as Hult Prize Foundation Campus Director

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Aziz Saoudi, a student of Business Administration at the MSB-Mediterranean School of Business, has not the same path as an ordinary student of his age who attends courses and passes exams. Being active and smart students he made the choice of joining the Hult Prize Foundation. Speaking about His student life in the Mediterranean School of Business, he said it has another dimension and a completely different course compared to other universities in the city of Tunis. The Campus life at the South Mediterranean University is more than attending lectures and…

Tunisia hands 242 hectares of state land to jobless youths

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 Minister of State Property and Real Estate Affairs, , handed over 242 hectares of state-owned land to unemployed Tunisian youths. At a visit to El Kef governorate, the minister handed over the land to the mayor of the governorate. The land included 108 hectares for university graduates  134 hectares for those who do not have degrees. The land is to be distributed in the four neighbourhoods of Touiref, Dahamani, Ksour and Sers. The direction to distribute the land was signed by the Minister of State Property and Real Estate Affairs, as well as the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources…

EU looks at Morocco and Tunisia to offload migrants

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Member states are pressing to get Morocco and Tunisia onto a list of so-called “safe third countries” on to which to offload people seeking asylum. The move appears linked to stalled plans for setting up centres in countries rimming the Mediterranean to take in disembarked rescued migrants at sea. The safe third country concept entails dispatching people, regardless of nationality, back to places where they initially transited through. It means, for instance, a sub-Saharan African who travelled through Morocco to reach Europe could be sent back to Morocco to have his asylum…

Tunisia, Germany ink USD1.9b investment deals

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Tunisia and Germany were announced to have inked five investment deals on various fields at a value of around USD1.9 billion. The five documents were secured during a trip to Tunisia made by Gerd Muller, German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development. The agreements Tunisia and Germany penned were unveiled to be covering areas of employment, dairy industry, tourism and textiles. The two sides supported their tough economic cooperation by signing two memorandums of understanding. TunisianMonitorOnline (NAFNAF)