Year: 2018

Google Merchant Account launched in Tunisia

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Google launched, on April 7th, the Google Merchant Account service in Tunisia, which allows developers, project promoters and IT engineering services companies to open a Merchant Account and start sell their applications and services over the internet and enjoy the status of “Google Play”, the Ministry of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy  said Sunday in a statement. The Ministry said “to have reiterated several times, the importance of integrating Tunisia in the countries concerned by the roadmap of dissemination of ” Google Play” services, while ensuring it the necessary guarantees,…

Tunisia to become second African country to legally prohibit racial discrimination

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I have the deep conviction that history goes towards one direction, that of the equality between people. – Mehdi Ben Gharbia, Tunisian human rights minister Tunisia will become the second country in the 55-member African Union, after South Africa, to pass an anti-racial discrimination law, Mehdi Ben Gharbia, the country’s human rights minister, said. The legal initiative reflects the attitude of a growing number of Tunisians who say skin colour should be no issue in a country that, for centuries, has been a mosaic of diverse cultures, religions, races and…

Merkel Vows Full Probe After German Van Crash Leaves Four Dead

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised a full investigation after a man killed three people by driving a van into a street cafe in the western city of Muenster, then fatally shot himself on the scene. About 20 people were injured in the incident on Saturday afternoon, which recalled recent terrorist attacks using vehicles, including one on a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 that killed 12 people. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported the dead suspect was a German national with a history of psychological trouble and that police were already…

Tunisian-Libyan Business Council established to foster economic relations

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The Tunisian-African Business Council (TABC) on Friday in Tunis launched the first Tunisian-Libyan Business Council. The aim of this council is to focus on a better economic rapprochement between the two countries and provide the necessary support to relaunch trade and investment between the two business communities, said Bassem Loukil, President Tunisian African Business Council (TABC), at the launch of the first bilateral business council. He said  that “the aim of the step is to restore the dynamism to the Tunisian-Libyan relations.”  “The recent years were characterized by the absence…

ICD signs commitment letter and memoranda of understanding with Tunisian companies

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The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private sector (ICD) signed a commitment letter with Caisse des DĂ©pĂŽts et Consignations (CDC), Tunisia, as well as seven memoranda of understanding, namely with CDC, Wifak Bank, Zitouna Tamkeen, Intilaq Fund, BFPME and UGFS. The signing ceremony was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Tunisia during the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Islamic Development Bank Group. It is a clear sign that business in Tunisia is at the heart of ICD’s strategy to help the Tunisian private sector in the most…

Moving beyond aid: G20 Compact with Africa

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The G20 Compact with Africa appears to be gaining strength as the African countries that signed the deal meet to discuss new strategies. A two-day conference held in Accra was organized by the Africa Center for Economic Transformation, with support from Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It focused on moving beyond aid and revenue mobilization. The meeting attracted representatives from countries which have signed the G20 Compact with Africa, including Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea, Morocco, Togo, Tunisia, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Rwanda and Senegal, as well as the host nation, Ghana. This is…

Energy: Med-Tso project redraws Mediterranean electricity

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Eighteen countries joined together to create a safe and sustainable Mediterranean electricity network towards a single energy market. The Mediterranean project, managed by 20 partners of 18 EU and non-EU countries, and led by Med-Tso, the association of electricity managers in the Mediterranean area, was launched in 2015 and throughout the last three years achieved its first results. The economic value of the operation and many other details will be presented on Tuesday, 10th April, at the European Parliament in Brussels. The project has been realized thanks to a loan…

EU tracking 65,000 migrant smugglers: Europol

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European law enforcement officials say they are tracking at least 65,000 migrant smugglers, twice as many as at the height of the migration crisis three years ago, as the illegal trade booms. Despite a drop in the number of migrants successfully crossing the Mediterranean since Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War II erupted in 2015, the EU’s police agency Europol said demand for smugglers was still “huge”. Many new suspects have also been identified, Europol added, as investigators in European countries track one of the fastest growing forms of…

ATUGE addresses ways to turn mobility of Tunisian talents into opportunity

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“A new approach is required to turn the mobility of Tunisian talents into an opportunity,” Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Slim Khalbous Thursday told participants in the 27th edition of the Annual Forum of the Network of Tunisian Students and Graduates of top French Engineering and Business Schools (French: ATUGE). The event was held in Tunis on the theme: “Mobility of Talents: Opportunities and Challenges for Tunisians.” Rolling out a strategy intended to capitalise on Tunisians’ mobility, the Minister said there are three major thrusts, namely specialisation, a…

Journalists should work together to drive quality reporting, says Google

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Cooke noted that collaboration among journalists from various media organisations will tackle the challenge of verification. With the demand for quality journalism and information that people can trust growing as high as ever been, it would be best for journalists to band together and collaborate in gathering news and fact-checking, a senior official at Google said during the 17th Arab Media Forum in Dubai on Wednesday. London-based Matt Cooke, head of Google News Lab International, said news organisations should work together and utilise technology effectively in order to survive the…