About 70 small and medium-sized enterprises have benefited from the support fund, Sadok Bejja, Director General of SME Promotion in the Ministry of Industry and Trade said in an exclusive interview with AfricanManager on Tuesday (March 7th). This initiative is part of the government’s 2014 strategy to support struggling companies. The program, with a total cost of 100 MD, aims to help 200 companies, he said. African Manager
Earlier this week, Hamadi ben Abdesslem, the Tunisian guide who saved 45 Italian tourists during the 2015 terrorist attack by Isis on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, was honoured in in the Garden of the Righteous, a new commemorative site in Milan. A plaque paying tribute to Ben Abdesslem was also unveiled last summer in the Garden of the Righteous in Tunis located in the grounds of the Italian Embassy. According to Italian press reports, Ben Abdesslem met some of the people in Milan whom he led to safety during the…
A German state government has deported 22 failed asylum seekers to Tunisia, one of whom is suspected of membership in the Islamic State terrorist group, officials said Wednesday. The Interior Ministry of Saxony, the eastern state which conducted the deportations, said that eight of the 22 deportees had been in police custody before boarding a flight from Dresden to Tunisia. A government source told dpa that one of the people deported on Wednesday is a 24-year-old man suspected of Islamic State membership. Prosecutors say that Charfeddine T, whose last name…
Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui on Wednesday visited Baghdad to discuss regional developments — especially the fight against terrorism — with Iraqi officials. Jhinaoui was received upon his arrival by Iraqi President Fuad Masum, according to a statement released by Masum’s office. “Our two countries have a number of common concerns, which can be used to step up bilateral cooperation,” Masum told Jhinaoui at a subsequent meeting, according to the statement. This was especially necessary, the Iraqi president said, “given that many states of the region still face the scourge…
Within the domestic political climate full of hate, gossip and lies…, Tunisian people begin to lose faith in politicians and politics .This is very dangerous for a Nation set to build its volatile democratic transition with enthusiasm. The escalation and tensions on TV channels which constantly occurred between some well known politicians as well as the leaks of fake or correct news about their attitudes or behaviours , such as the last leak of a video of an inner meeting led by Hafedh Caid Essebssi. These samples do not give…