Day: March 20, 2018

Tunisia’s revenues from date up 22% by March 15 for 2017-2018 season

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The  revenues from date exportsin Tunisia reached TND 402.4 million ($168 million) on March 15, 2018, for the 2017-18 season,  according to minister of agriculture, water resources, and fishery. This achivement represents an increase by 22.2% compared to the revenues in the same period during the previous season. The country achieved this gain thanks to an increase in the exports which jumped from 61, 487 tons to 66, 116 tons (+7.52%). This figure includes 5, 099.1 tons of organic dates. The main destinations that recorded a boom in their imports are…

Tunisia observes 62nd anniversary of independence, Google dedicates doodle

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Tunisia is celebrating on Tuesday the 62nd anniversary of its independence from France, in a holiday that is still widely celebrated, with official celebrations taking place throughout the country. Google dedicated a doodle to Tunisian National Day 2018, depicting a Tunisian flag waving against a background of palm trees, with a link that redirects to the Wikipedia entry on the story of Tunisian independence. Here is the doodle :” In both prehistory and recorded history, Tunisia is a historical hotspot. Tools from the Middle Stone Age (around 200,000 years ago)…

Tunisia hopes boost in Chinese investment can ease economic woes

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As Chinese investment increased in other North African countries, their absence in Tunisia was noticeable. As late as 2015, there were few infrastructure projects bearing Mandarin characters such as those found in Algiers, no shops selling specialized Asian food products like in Cairo, and compared with the crowded streets of Marrakech, there were precious few Chinese tourists in Tunis, Al-Monitor said. But in the past year, China has been increasingly looking toward Tunisia. Projects in Algeria and Egypt have not been as successful as initially hoped, with delayed permits and declining oil prices…