Day: June 23, 2017

Can Trump and Moon Quell North Korea’s Saber Rattling?

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Over the last few months, we have heard the Trump administration voice the same worn out foreign policy that we have heard from previous administrations. There are the usual carrots: we remain open to negotiations as long as North Korea makes concessions; or sticks: “if China doesn’t solve the problem, we will”, and “the sword stands ready.” Where is a potentially new and more proactive solution? Could the upcoming summit meeting between President Trump and South Korean president Moon produce an opportunity for the two leaders to coordinate and eventually…

Tunisia sets two deadlines for 210 MW renewable energy tender

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Tunisia’s Ministry for Energy, Mines and Renewable energies has issued a calendar with two deadlines for a tender calling for the supply of 210 MW of electricity generation capacity from wind and solar photovoltaics. Bidders are expected to submit offers by noon on November 15, 2017, at the latest for 140 MW of the capacity. Wind capacity bids will be accepted in two batches. The first batch will seek bids with a total capacity of up to 60 MW and up to 30 MW per project. The second batch will…

French tourists return to Maghreb countries

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The number of French tourists choosing to travel abroad rather than domestically has gone up this year, with a marked increase in the numbers going to Tunisia and Morocco. The ‘Entreprises du Voyage’ agency has monitored the findings of 850 travel agency bookings for this summer. While Spain, Greece, Italy and Portugal are the most popular choices, Morocco and Tunisia are gaining ground following a tough past year. Tunisia was hit by a spate of terror attacks in 2015, but the number of French tourists booking trips there this year…

Red Palm Weevils Wreak Havoc On Palm Plantations Across The Globe

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One of the biggest threats to global agriculture these days is a tiny, bright red weevil. These little crimson devils eviscerate coconut, date and oil palms, and are native to South Asia. But thanks to globalization, and the fact that these tenacious buggers can fly up to 30 miles a day — over the last three decades they’ve spread to more than 60 countries from the Caribbean to Southern Europe. “We were expecting that they would come eventually,” says Abdelazize Eljiati, a Saudi Arabian date farmer who got into the…

Forty Tunisian economic operators on a prospection mission in Cameroon on 29 June 2017

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A Cameroon-Tunisia business forum will take place on the fringes of the meeting, from 28 to 29 June 2017 in the Cameroonian capital, of the Monitoring Committee of the 10th edition of the Tunisian-Cameroonian Mixed Commission held in Tunis on 23-24 March 2016, the Cameroonian Minister of Economy, Louis Paul Motazé, announced in an official press release. According to Jalel Snoussi, Tunisian Ambassador in Cameroon, about forty Tunisian economic operators will take part in this meeting, whose goal, he specified, is to “identify cooperation possibilities; establish a framework for partnership;…