Tunisia: IMF chief predicts economic recovery in 2017

Good growth in Tunisia in 2017, in any case better than in 2016, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, believes in it. She affirmed it Wednesday 18 January 2017, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, after a meeting with Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. Commenting on the meeting, Mrs. Lagarde said it focused on the prospects of the growth of the Tunisian economy. “The outlook for growth is better in 2017 than in 2016,” she said. According to her, the fact that…

Trump and Radical Islam

In the midst of the preparation to enter the White House as a President of the United States of America, the Islamists in general and in Tunis in particular as well as their allies were surprised of the position of Donald Trump of Political Islam after he had called these days to set a nominal list of the Muslim brotherhood who are on the American soil and classified as terrorists. In fact, this position is not new because Trump has expressed this on many occasions the most important of which…

Tunisia rebukes German claims it mishandled Berlin attacker’s deportation

A Tunisian minister has said his government initially received the wrong details concerning Anis Amri’s deportation. He said Tunisia sanctioned the deportation after German authorities had issued the correct details. The Tunisian government late on Wednesday rebuked claims it mishandled the deportation the Berlin market attacker, Anis Amri, claiming Germany had initially provided the wrong identity when requesting his deportation. “Unfortunately, we were first given the wrong name, which is why we declined the deportation,” Tunisian minister Mehdi Ben Gharbia told German public broadcaster ZDF. “Once we received the correct name, we verified…

Malek Jaziri: Serving up Tunisia’s tennis uprising

With a top-50 berth and notable wins, Africa’s ace men’s player has hit his stride at a late stage in his career. The Tunisian revolution was a turning point for Malek Jaziri in more ways than one. Caught in the middle of the bloodshed and fearing for his life, the Tunis resident says that he was lifted by the strong camaraderie among his countrymen. Six years on, he sees Tunisia in a much better state – and Jaziri’s tennis career has also improved since the Arab Spring. After almost a decade…