Day: March 7, 2017

Battle of Ben Guerdane ‘turning point’ in Tunisia’s History in countering terrorism

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The battle against terrorists in Ben Guerdane a year ago was a “turning point” for Tunisia, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said on Tuesday during a visit to commemorate the anniversary of this event. Tunisia is marking the first anniversary of Ben Guerdane battle which saw the armed forces and police, supported by locals, bravely foil the bloody plans of Daesh. A terrorist attack that targeted strategic spots in Ben Guerdane began on March 7 at dawn with a view to taking the city and establishing a “Daesh emirate.” These designs…

Tunisian extremist deported from Italy

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Italian authorities on Tuesday expelled a radical Tunisian Muslim who they said voiced support for the Islamic State jihadist group’s 2015 attacks on Paris and incited racial hatred and violence towards women. The 39-year-old Tunisian was deported from Malpensa airport in northern Italy aboard a flight to Tunis “for reasons of public security,” the interior ministry said.  “He displayed approval for (IS’s) November 2015 attacks on Paris,” the ministry stated. The Tunisian had been doing jail time for petty crime in the northern city of Brescia, where his extremist views…

Tunis to restore abandoned Christian cemetery

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Tunisian authorities are to restore a Christian cemetery which has been abandoned since the 2011 revolution and become a target of tomb-raiders, officials said on Monday. The governorate of Greater Tunis said it had been alerted last week of the state of decline of Carthage Byrsa cemetery in a northern suburb of the capital. Omar Mansour, the governor, had visited and seen that around 20 tombs had been opened and a part of the cemetery wall destroyed. He has ordered measures to protect the cemetery, for the ransacked tombs to…

TUNISAIR reports 10.8% increase in passenger traffic in February 2017

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National airline TUNISAIR has recorded a 10.8% increase in passenger traffic in February 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. Passenger traffic grew from 18,078 to 200,584 passengers. The other indicator is regular traffic, which increased by 8.7% from 177,423 to 192,903 passengers. Additional traffic increased from 535 passengers to 1017 passengers. The charter business grew to 6,666 passengers compared with 3,120 passengers in February 2016. The load factor increased by 2.7% from 68.2% in February 2016 to 70.9% in February 2017. African Manager

Young, Tunisian, female and digital auto-entrepreneur

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Hayfa Sdiri has created a platform for Tunisian youth, connecting entrepreneurs with ideas, skills and funders. I prefer not to tell people my age at first—people tend to not take me seriously because I am a young woman. If you see the laws on the books in Tunisia, everything is equal. It’s not like women are not expected to study or work. But there are limits. If you are seen as being too bold, trying to breaking the stereotypes or the glass ceiling, you would raise concerns. I founded Entr@crush,…

Telecommunications Market in Tunisia 4G Network Expansion and Fiber-Optic Infrastructure Development to Drive Telecom Growth

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The Report Tunisia: 4G Network Expansion and Fiber-Optic Infrastructure Development to Drive Telecom Growth provides information on pricing, market analysis, shares, forecast, and company profiles for key industry participants. “Tunisia: 4G Network Expansion and Fiber-Optic Infrastructure Development to Drive Telecom Growth,” a new Country Intelligence Report by GlobalData, provides an executive-level overview of the telecommunications market in Tunisia today, with detailed forecasts of key indicators up to 2021. Published annually, the report provides detailed analysis of the near-term opportunities, competitive dynamics and evolution of demand by service type and technology/platform…