Year: 2018

Tunisia plans UK advertising campaign

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Tunisia is planning a new UK advertising campaign following the relaunch of holiday flights this month, travelmole reports. The tourist board has appointed strategic marketing and advertising agency Fox Kalomaski Crossing to execute the campaign. Fox was behind marketing campaigns launched by Thailand, Western Australia and the Bahamas as well as travel brands Netflights, Qantas, Travelbag and Titan, according to travelmole. Thomas Cook became the first major tour operator to re-launch flights to Tunisia last week. TUI will re-launch its programme on May 1. TunisianMonitorOnline

Three Tunisian migrant traffickers detained in Italy

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Three Tunisians suspected of being migrant traffickers were arrested in Italy , local media reported on Monday. Aged 32, 24, and 19, the three men were brought to jail in Ragusa, Sicily, on charge of favoring irregular immigration, according to AGI news agency. They had reached the Sicilian port of Pozzallo on Saturday on board of a rescue ship of Italy’s finance police operating within EU new border control mission Themis in the Mediterranean. Overall, some 86 people were saved in that operation, and all of them were believed to…

EBRD issues financial package to Tunisia’s UBCI

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EBRD and EU boost financial inclusion and growth with new credit line The EBRD is providing a comprehensive financial package to Union Bancaire pour le Commerce et l’Industrie (UBCI), a commercial bank in Tunisia, to support the expansion of the local economy. The package consists of a credit line for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for €30 million, a trade finance limit of up to US$ 10 million and a risk-sharing framework of up to €10 million. The loan will be on-lent to SMEs to increase their access to much-needed…

Arab Maghreb Union urges Libya to end union’s deadlock by holding summit

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Taieb Baccoushe, secretary-general of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), on Sunday urged the UN-backed Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj to end the deadlock of the union by holding a summit. Baccoushe made his remarks during a meeting with Serraj in the Libyan capital Tripoli. “Baccoushe said he hoped to call upon the prime minister to hold a Maghreb summit to end the deadlock in the union, with Libya presiding over it,” the prime minister’s media office said in a statement. Baccoushe added that the union’s secretariat had not ceased to…

Seminar held in Tunisia to look for solutions to Libya’s cash crisis

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A Seminar on the crisis of liquidity in Libya concluded in Tunisia after two days of debate with the participation of the Central Bank of Libya and more than 20 other banking institutions, in addition to a number of economists. The Seminar discussed a number of core issues, which included the proposed solutions to solve the liquidity crisis, consolidating the Central’s Bank work, the urgent economic reforms needed, the role of political stability in solving the economic crisis, the trend towards using the electronic card, and opening letters of credit…

Tunisia recovery ‘to be fuelled by low prices’

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Tunisia’s tourism revival will be driven by price, say experts, as Thomas Cook became the first major UK operator to return since the 2015 Sousse massacre, Travel Weekly said. Derek Moore, chairman of the Association of Independent Tour Operators, said “there will be appetite” from UK tourists because low prices will trump security fears. “Tunisia was always good value. History shows concerns are dissolved in a deluge of low prices. It needed someone big, such as Cook or Tui, to go back, but price is the key. Memories don’t last forever.” Thomas…

Tunisia wins four gold medals at Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition

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Tunisia won six medals, including four gold medals, at the 19th edition of the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition, TAP reports. The variety “Olivko” won the gold medal “Best Of Class,” along with the organic olive oil “Olivko” also won a gold medal. Ditto for the organic variety, Oriviera. Besides, « Triomphe Thuccabor » of Domain Ben Ismail won a gold medal. The Ben Ismail Domain lies in the north-western part of Tunisia, in the villlage of Toukaber. After winning the bronze medal at the “Athena International Olive…

UN and Libya take step towards labour migration management

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The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and Libyan authorities took the first steps to develop a plan to manage labor migration in Libya. UNSMIL said in a statement on Friday that the step was taken during a three-day workshop hosted by the Libyan Minister of Labour and Capacity Building in Tunisia. The workshop was on developing Libya’s labour market and fostering youth empowerment throughout the country, with participation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). “The event brought together government authorities such as the Ministry of Planning, Ministry…

Young Tunisian women launch business initiative to change own destinies

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From Tunisian pastries to carpets, to clothes and jewellery, the products combine elements of tradition and modernity. Despite economic difficulties facing the handicraft sector, young Tunisian women artisans established an initiative to promote the industry and provide jobs for themselves and others. The “I am Change” initiative encourages female artisans, many of whom are unemployed university graduates, to sell their work to a larger customer base and break into bigger markets. From Tunisian pastries to carpets, to clothes and jewellery, the products these women make combine elements of tradition and…

CPG and GCT can no longer take on new hires (Khaled Kaddour)

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Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy Khaled Kaddour said, Friday, during his visit to the governorate of Tozeur, with a ministerial delegation chaired by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, the incapacity of the Gafsa Phosphates Company (CPG) and the Tunisian Chemical Group (GCT) to take on new recruitments, after those created in recent years, TAP reports. He stressed the need to reactivate environmental companies to play a positive economic role. Commenting on the situation of the CPG, after the cessation of production and its decline of more than 50% over…