Tunisia: Abdelkefi to sign 3 major agreements in Jeddah

The 42nd session of the annual meetings of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group will take place from May 16 to 19 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A Tunisian delegation chaired by the Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation, Mohamed Fadhel Abdelkefi, will meet the bank officials on this occasion. The Minister will sign three financing agreements for the implementation of the Saida dam project in the governorate of Kebili, the financing of imports of the Tunisian Company of Refining Industries and the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company. African Manager

Tunisia to import less wheat and barley in the 2017-18 season

In the 2017-2018 season, Tunisia aims to import 2.1 million tons of wheat and barley (soft and hard), against 2.4 million tons the previous season. This was disclosed by Taoufik Saidi, director general of Tunisia’s Office des Cereales (OTC), in an interview with Bloomberg. The grains will be bought via international call for tenders. According to Saidi, the 12.5% slump in the grains imports is to be attributed to a better output. Indeed, combined wheat and barley outputs is expected to stand at 1.8 million tons this season, as compared…

Carthago Dilecta Est ‘bridge’ between Italy and Tunisia

Tunis, May 17 – The 19th edition of ‘Carthago Dilecta Est – Tunisia Sailing Week ‘, the international sailing event involving Italy and Tunisia, has been presented in Hammamet. This year’s edition takes the slogan ‘Free to navigate’. The programme includes three regattas from Italy (July 28 Cagliari-Biserta-Hammamet; July 30 Roma/Fiumicino-Ventotene-Hammamet; August 2 Mazara del Vallo-Hammamet) and three in Tunisia (July 31 Biserta-Hammamet; August 2 Sidi Bou Said-Hammamet; August 6-8 Yasmine Hammamet Trophy-Final of the first national deep-sea championship). The Yasmine Hammamet Trophy will see participation from Italian and Tunisian…

UNESCO Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Inscription of Tunisian Dougga as Heritage Site

The UNESCO organized a cultural event in its headquarters in Paris to recall the qualification of the “Dougga” historic site in Tunisia. The event aimed at promoting the historic heritage reserve of Tunisia and its history among the cultural and tourism circles worldwide. The program of the event included an exhibition organized in the headquarters’ salon to feature items from the cultural heritage of the city of Dougga. It also included a lecture on the city’s history, and a show for many monuments from the Bardo National Museum, one of…

Panic over the red devils threatening to strip Tunisia of its grand palm trees

A red palm weevil infestation is decimating trees and posing a threat to the country’s date crop, a mainstay of the fragile economy It’s an unlikely but very real crisis for a country with a teetering economy: a tiny red devil is invading Tunisia and it could cost hundreds of thousands of people their livelihoods. Morched Garbouj, president of a Tunisian environmental group, smiled as he told the popular legend of how the red palm weevil first arrived in Tunisia. “Some people say that it was the former dictator Ben…