Day: March 1, 2017

Belgian FM pledges to inform European partners of security improvement in Tunisia.

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Bilateral cooperation between Tunisia and Belgium, means to develop them, the situation in Libya and issues of mutual interest, were the focus of the talk on Wednesday in Tunis between Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui and his Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders. In a press statement at the end of the talk, Jhinaoui commended Belgium’s decision to partially lift the travel restrictions for Tunisia. He said he had asked his Belgian counterpart to reconvert Tunisian debt into concrete projects, reminding that 160 Belgian companies are already established in Tunisia. Belgium is the…

Tunisia best potential destination of the year for the Chinese

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On the sidelines of the China Travelers’ Forum (CTF), Tunisia was awarded the Prize of the 2016 best International potential destination for the Chinese. The forum is organised by Ctrip, a leading travel agency in china that provides various services ranging from reservation to international support and which is the largest travel agency in China with a hotel network of about 1 million hotels in 200 countries around the world. The Tunisia destination and generally Africa are becoming more and more popular for the Chinese. The number of Chinese tourists…

WORLD WAR II Behind the Picture: The First Woman to Fly with a U.S. Combat Crew Over Enemy Soil

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Photographer Margaret Bourke-White — LIFE Magazine’s first female staff photographer — helped women in her profession reach new heights when she became the first female photographer accredited to cover World War II combat zones. This 1943 self-portrait shows her decked out in a fleece flight suit in front of the Flying Fortress bomber from which she had photographed, from four miles in the air, an attack on Tunis, soaring above the cloud-banked Mediterranean coast to become “the first woman ever to fly with a U.S. combat crew over enemy soil,”…

Sousse attack 2015: security forces accused by Tunisian justice of no assistance to persons in danger (judicial source)

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Security forces present at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Sousse during the terrorist attack on the hotel in 2015 were accused of not assisting a person in danger under Law No. 66-48 of June 3, 1966, on failure to act. Spokesman for the Judicial Counter-Terrorism Division, Sofiene Selliti said the investigating judge of the division has accused the security forces “of non-assistance and relief to a person in danger causing his death”. In a statement to TAP, Sofiene Selliti stated that the investigating judge closed the investigation on July 4,…

Tunisia must quickly implement reforms to secure second tranche of IMF loan

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 Due to Tunisia delaying in implementing the reforms imposed by the International Monetary Fund, the institution postponed the payment of the second tranche of a $2.9 billion loan it promised the nation,”said Tunisia’s minister of finance, Lamia Zribi. Valued at about $320 million, the first tranche of the loan was provided in June 2016. While the second tranche was expected to be cashed in December, last year, the Bretton Woods institution has now decided to postpone it. The Tunisian minister said an IMF delegation is expected to arrive in Tunisia in March…