Year: 2018

Security co-operation discussed as Saudi ambassador in Tunis meets with Interior Minister

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Interior Minister Hicham Fourati met Thursday in Tunis with Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Tunisia Mohammed Bin Mahmoud Al-Ali. The meeting focused on security co-operation and ways to develop it, particularly in the field of continuing training and exchange of expertise, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry. A joint military exercise between the Air Forces of Tunisia and Saudi Arabia was launched on Monday at the Sidi Ahmed military base in Bizerte. It will continue until 12 October as part of strengthening the Tunisian-Saudi military cooperation. In this connection,…

Paymee, revolution in mobile and online payment for Tunisian economy founded by Tunisian ICT engineer Marwen Amamou

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         “Dream big, work hard and stay humble”  Marwen Amamou The worldwide mobile payment revenue in 2015 was 450 billion U.S. dollars and is expected to surpass 1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2019. The spread of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets has led to the strong growth of mobile commerce. In the fourth quarter of 2016, mobile e-commerce spending in the United States amounted to 22.7 billion US dollars according to the statistics portal statista. Tunisia which is a country that fully adheres in the technological evolution is making its way…

Tunisia FM on Karabakh conflict: We are not going to take one side or another

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Tunisia will not take one side or the other when it comes to the conflict between other countries, Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui said during the PACE autumn session in his response to the Azerbaijani delegate. The Minister responded to Azerbaijani delegate Huseynov who seemed to ask a question with the sole goal to remind of “Armenian aggression”. “As we say at the United Nations, of course, Tunisia complies with its international obligations and resolutions. It does not want to interfere in the domestic matters of other countries and does not…

HPR of Tunisia passes anti-racism law

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The House of People’s Representatives (HPR) has adopted a law criminalising racist speech, incitement to hatred and discrimination. It is a historic vote on the elimination of all the forms of racial discrimination, with 125 votes for, 1 against and 5 abstentions. The purpose of this Act is to eliminate all forms and manifestations of racial discrimination in order to protect the dignity of the human being and to establish equality between individuals with respect to the enjoyment of rights and the fulfillment of their duties, in accordance with the provisions…

Governments must invest more in disaster risk reduction, says IFRC

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Disasters will continue to hamper efforts to achieve sustainable development unless governments do more to anticipate and reduce their risk, warns the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), during the Africa-Arab Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Tunis. This year, millions of people living in crisis have not been receiving the humanitarian assistance they desperately need—partly due to the lack of sufficient investment in disaster and crisis preparedness, as well as resilience-building. Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, IFRC Regional Director for Africa said that evidence has shown that adequate…

Orientea, a global invention with the challenge to target the world

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Faycel Ouerdien started his own business just after he graduated from the university. After many trials and different ideas for establishing a profitable business in medicinal plants, he made up his mind with the idea of inventing soluble green tea that can be prepared in thirty seconds or even less. The big challenge for him is how to make such an idea with the minimum conditions and equipment without the mere fund a real success. Faycel Ouerdien our smart inventor started his business by creating his machine in order to…

Olive Oil Production Up More Than 25 Percent, Consumption Edges Higher

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Provisional data analyzed by the International Olive Council (IOC) forecasts a 28 percent increase of olive oil production this year compared with last. Global production reached 3,315,000 tons in the 2017/2018 crop year, although the data is only provisional.– International Olive Council The data, which was provided by both member and non-member countries, indicate the global production will reach 3,315,000 tons for the 2017/18 crop year, an increase of 723,500 tons compared with last year. Tunisia experienced the largest increase, producing 280,000 tons, which was a 180-percent increase compared with last year.…

Digital banking, decashing, mobile payment and open banking theme of Seminar in UTICA

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A seminar on “the development of digital banking and payment means,” was organised Tuesday at the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) headquarters. The gathering focused on the development of urgent proposals to encourage digital banking transactions, with a view to their integration into the 2019 finance law. It also aims to provide a platform for exchange between the various economic players involved in payment means and electronic exchange, to discuss and agree on the actions to be taken as regards decashing, mobile payment and open banking. President…

Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt to discuss Libyan crisis in Cairo

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Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel said on Monday that a tripartite meeting with Egypt and Tunisia will be held in Cairo later this month to discuss the development in war-torn Libya, state radio channel I reported. The last tripartite meeting on Libya was held in Algiers in May 2018, when the three Arab countries agreed to continue supporting the implementation of the UN peace plan and the need to create adequate conditions to overcome the political stalemate in Libya. These meetings are part of the periodic consultation between the three…

The number of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian nationals expelled by Germany is on the rise

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The number of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian nationals expelled by the German authorities has increased in recent years, reports German daily Bild, quoted by De Spiegel. By the end of August, Germany expelled 476 people to their countries of origin while it repatriated only 61 others in 2015. In 2017, 634 Moroccan nationals were sent back to the Kingdom. 400 Algerian nationals were expelled as well by the end of August 2018, 57 in 2015 and 504 in 2017. The German authorities expelled 231 Tunisian nationals in August, 251 in 2017…