Day: September 8, 2017

Myron International Clinic centre of multi-disciplinary surgery in Tunisia

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Tunisia has become the first country of multi-disciplinary surgery namely plastic surgery by its low prices and the competence of highly renowned surgeons who attract patients from all over the world. The Myron International Clinic, a newly born institute, occupies an important place among the leaders of surgical hospitalization nationwide and more generally worldwide. The Myron International clinic offers to the patients several areas of surgical intervention as well as a comprehensive care in the patients’ care paths while guaranteeing excellent services during their stays. Created in 2015, the Myron…

Russian astronaut captures Instagram image of Makkah from space

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It is quite common to take photos of your work if it involves travel, we all do it. But Russian astronaut Sergey Ryazanskiy has taken this to a whole new level sharing photos that are quite literally out of this world on his Instagram account. His collection of photos taken from space includes an image of Makkah at night. He captioned the stunning image: “The holiest place in the Islamic world. #Makkah is beautiful both day and night. Impossible to confuse it with any other city in the world even…

EBRD boosts trade in Tunisia

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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is helping Tunisia expand international and intra-regional trade by providing a US$ 10 million trade finance line to Union Internationale de Banques (UIB), a subsidiary of Société Générale. The trade finance line will allow UIB to issue guarantees in favour of confirming banks and provide cash financing for pre-export and post-import financing as well as for local distribution, according to EBRD. Technical cooperation projects will accompany this trade finance facility, to transfer know-how and share best practices in trade finance. Antoine Sallé…

G20 Compact with Africa Finance Ministers call for African ownership of CWA

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Strong leadership, macro-economic stability, adequate infrastructure, entrepreneurial skills, tax reforms and African ownership of the Compact with Africa process were issues high on the agenda of Finance Ministers attending the first G-20 Compact with Africa meeting in Accra, Ghana, yesterday. The meeting, convened by Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, with technical support from the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), provided a platform for the finance ministers to discuss what role the G-20 Compact could play in the collective economic transformation agendas of Africa, as well as how to overcome…

Tunisia hosts “Super Mamies” to boost tourism

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The “Super Mamie France 2017”, a French contest to honour outstanding grandmothers, is being held in Jerba, an island in the south east of Tunisia. The competition aims to honour and reward exceptional grandmothers who are extremely dynamic and distinguished by their investment in volunteerism and humanitarian actions, Tunis Afrique Press, the Tunisian news agency, reported.. More than 150 guests and relatives accompanying and encouraging the French “Super Mamies” are attending the ceremony to crown the winner of this contest, in its eighth edition. René Trabelsi, head of a travel…