Tunisia to take part in 64th edition of Fancy Food Show in New York

Tunisia’s participation in the 64th edition of the Fancy Food Show 2017, which will take place from June 25 to 27, 2017 in New York, was at the heart of an information day held at CEPEX on “access to American food processing market.” The day, led by American and Tunisian experts, aims to supervise the Tunisian companies participating in the show and to support them in their efforts to capture the US market, in association with the Ministry of Industry and trade, and through the supervision of the US Agency…

CNH Industrial presents its Tunisian sustainable water management project at the European Development Days

The Company and its global agricultural equipment brand, New Holland Agriculture, were prominent participants in this year’s edition of the European Commission’s forum on development, owing to an important sustainability initiative launched in North Africa. This year’s edition of the European Development Days saw CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) and its global agricultural equipment brand, New Holland Agriculture, present a three-year sustainable water management project that was launched in Tunisia in 2016. Organized by the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium since 2006, the European Development Days event is…

Tunisia: solutions for banks that little serve development

“The Tunisian banking system is fragmented and includes a large number of small institutions that exceed the real need of the economy. This is what emerges from the economic note of the stock exchange agent Mac SA. The author of this note, Ghazi Boulila, academic and administrator at the “Société tunisienne des Banques” (STB) said that despite this significant number, this sector has not been able to contribute to financing the development of interior and southern regions. Several reasons are proposed, including those related to profitability, centralization, risk-taking, governance and…

Tourists slowly return to Tunisia

The sea breeze on the promenades of the Mediterranean resort of Sousse in Tunisia last summer was filled with the beat of Algerian pop music, not the scent of sunblock on Western Europeans. And hotel lobby bars were filled with Russians rather than British, French and German tourists, wearing the color-coded wrist bands of package tours — green for booze included. Visitors from Algeria and Russia helped save Tunisia’s seaside hotels from a second-straight abysmal summer, as Western Europeans largely shunned the country in the wake of two separate tourist…

Admission of Morocco Into ECOWAS is an Anti-Nigeria Move, Akinyemi Raises Alarm

Since I left the office of the Minister of External (Foreign) Affairs in December 1987, I have refrained from making direct comments or I can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of times I have made comments on issues which are of direct concern to Nigerian foreign policy. I did this because I believed and still believe that having had my own opportunity at batting, the present ministers at the crease should be allowed unfettered room during their innings. However, this issue of the admission of Morocco…