Day: December 3, 2017

Launch of new shipping line likely to rebalance Tunisia’s foreign trade: official

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The launch of a new shipping line between Tunisia and China will help Tunisia recover its regional positioning and enhance China’s presence in African continent, Tunisian authorities and locally-based foreign investors said Friday. The Spanish company Transglory has just inaugurated a new maritime trade line linking Tunisian Rades port and Chinese Qingdao port in the northern suburbs of the capital Tunis. “Importing and exporting to and from this Chinese destination are consolidating similar services from other leading ports,” Louis Florensa, chief of Transglory Development Department told Xinhua during an interview.…

UN calls for elections in Libya by end of 2018

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Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UN Support Mission in Libya Ghassan Salame said Wednesday that the mission is working on holding elections in Libya before the end of 2018. Salame made his remarks in a meeting with representatives of tribes, civil society, academics and activists in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. The mission proposed an action plan for Libya in September that includes amendment of the current UN-sponsored political agreement, holding a UN-sponsored national conference for all of Libya’s political factions, adopting a constitution, and…