Year: 2024

Hub Design Centres are one of the most important spaces that the Ministry of Tourism, through the National Office for Handicrafts and various stakeholders, supported by the European Union, is betting on to create advanced and integrated spaces that provide Tunisian creative youth with opportunities to meet, value tangible and intangible heritage, and achieve sustainable development. Tourism Minister Sofiane Tekaya inaugurated on Wednesday the Hub Design Centre in Gabes, the fifth of its kind after Nabeul, Sidi Bou Said, Denden, Nabeul and Mahdia, with Gafsa and Kasserine set to open…

 The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and the Tunisian government have agreed to set up a working group to explore the feasibility of concluding a free trade agreement, the EEC trade department reported following a meeting between EEC Trade Minister Andrei Slepnev and Tunisian Trade and Export Development Minister Samir Abid. “The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) attaches a lot of significance to developing mutually beneficial relations with Africa and sees good prospects in expanding the number of regional countries with which preferential trade regimes are applied. We view the Republic of Tunisia…

A loan agreement was signed in Tunis on 20 November between the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development and the Government of the Republic of Tunisia. Under the terms of the agreement, the Fund will provide a loan of 10 million Kuwaiti Dinars (KWD) (equivalent to approximately 32 million US dollars) to help finance the renewal and development of railway lines for the transport of phosphates in Tunisia, Arab Times reported. The agreement was signed on behalf of the Government of Tunisia between Mr. Mohammed Ali Al Nafti, Minister of…

Jalel Tebib, Managing Director of the FIPA-Tunisia Agency, met with the directors of the Australian company PhosCo Ltd, Tarek Aldaoud and Mehdi Ben Abdallah, Managing Director and Executive Director respectively. The meeting was part of a drive to strengthen cooperation between Tunisia and Australia, reports FIPA. PhosCo Ltd, which specialises in developing world-scale phosphate projects, aims to establish a genuine hub in Tunisia’s northern basin. The company’s managers have expressed their commitment to supporting the country’s economic efforts while exploring new opportunities for bilateral partnership. Committed to the most rigorous…

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 25 November 2024 – The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Community Jameel have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to launch a strategic partnership aimed at tackling pressing global challenges including poverty, disease, hunger, and the impacts of climate change in IsDB member countries, which have a combined population of over 2 billion people. The MoU was signed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group Chairman H.E. Dr. Muhammad Al Jasser and Mohammed Jameel KBE, Founder and Chairman of Community Jameel. The MoU reaffirms the…