Day: December 17, 2025

AMEA Power Inaugurates Landmark 120 MW Solar Plant in Tunisia, a First for Nation’s Grid

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Tunisia has activated its largest solar power plant to date. AMEA Power, a Dubai-based renewable energy developer, announced the commercial operation of its 120-megawatt peak (MWp) photovoltaic plant in the Kairouan Governorate on Wednesday. The inauguration ceremony drew high-ranking officials, underscoring the project’s national importance. Attendees included Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Fatma Thabet Chiboub, STEG CEO Faical Tarifa, Kairouan Governor Dhakar Bargaoui, Secretary of State for Energy Transition Wael Chouchene, and AMEA Power Chairman Hussain Al Nowais. A Project of Record-Setting Firsts The facility is not merely the…

Tunisia’s Fifteen-Year Journey from Revolution to Reckoning

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This Wednesday, Tunisia observes the 15th anniversary of its revolution’s outbreak, a foundational moment that redrew its political map and continues to dictate its turbulent journey. The commemoration itself is a testament to the revolution’s unfinished story, its meaning still fiercely contested in the halls of power and the streets of its birthplace. The narrative of the Tunisian Revolution has been officially recalibrated. Once celebrated on 14 January, the day former strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the palace, the national day is now fixed to its origins: 17…