Day: December 20, 2016

In Africa 8 in 10 youths worried by climate change

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Survey on millennials in 19 countries including Algeria and Morocco Eight in 10 young Africans are convinced that climate change has a negative impact on their lives, according to the first pan African study on climate change released on Tuesday by South Africa’s GC Consulting. About seven in 10 consider access to water and the development of renewable energy as the most important initiatives to fight global warming and over half accused governments of not doing enough to fight against the effects of global warming, said the study. The research…

Tunisia chairs 4th Arab-European Foreign Ministers meeting in Cairo

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(TAP) – The 4th Arab-European Foreign Ministers meeting was held Tuesday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, under the chairmanship of Foreign Minister Khemaïes Jhinaoui. Tunisia has assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the League of Arab States at its 146th session since September 2016. It will continue until March 2017. The meeting, which was attended by 49 foreign ministers, was chaired on the Arab side by Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, and on the European side by the High Representative of the European…

Between King Abdulaziz and Habib Bourguiba

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Visiting Tunisia means taking a look at history and the future at the same time. The country’s geographic location has granted it the ability to receive the new and the different, comprehend new concepts and stay abreast of the most modern aspects which Europe has produced. The solid foundations laid down by Habib Bourguiba enabled Tunisia to stay intact amid crises and difficult problems. Even when the revolution erupted there few years ago, Tunisia did not witness turmoil. It grappled with ordinary security problems and quickly restored its strong Bourguiba…

Where Next? The Syrian regime has several military options as it advances after the Aleppo victory.

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Seemingly unthinkable just a few months ago, the fall of Aleppo represents a major victory for forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The pressing question now is where these forces will head next: eastwards, so as to confront the Islamic State, or to the west and south in order to roll back opposition strongholds in Idlib province and around Deraa city? The Islamic State appeared to resolve the question in mid-December with its dramatic recapture of Palmyra from regime forces and its swift onward push towards…

Wided Bouchamaoui: We must not mix religion with politics

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One of the most influential people in Tunisian democratic transition is Ouided Bouchamaoui, 55, the first female president of the largest businessowners’ association in the country Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicraft. With the National Dialogue Quartet, an alliance of four influential civil society groups, she helped lead Tunisia toward democracy after the Jasmine Revolution that oversaw the demise of a policestate in 2011. Initially, Tunisia’s transition to democracy was not smooth. The Islamic party Ennahda that won the first elections after dictator Zine alAbidine Ben Ali was toppled…