Month: March 2018

Tunisia’s parliament votes to end Truth and Dignity Commission

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Tunisia’s parliament has voted to end the country’s Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD). In a plenary session, 68 deputies voted against the decision to extend the mandate of the IVD and two others abstained. No votes for the extension of the mandate have been registered. Several deputies left the plenary session without voting, including members of the parliamentary bloc of Ennahdha movement and the democratic bloc. However IVD president Sihem Ben Sedrine said, Wednesday at a meeting with the press, that the law requires the commission to complete the process…

Tunisia Digital Summit : digitalisation is important means of combating corruption (PM)

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A recent study showed that the digital transformation can increase Tunisia’s growth rate from 1.5% to 2.3%, said Anouar Maarouf, Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy, noting that in some countries the contribution rate of the digital economy in the economy is 25%. On the fringes of his participation in the works of Tunisia Digital Summit (TDS), the minister stated ” We seek to double the contribution rate of the digital economy to the national economy to move from 7% currently to 14%.” He added that industry digitisation is…

Tunisia launches the digital map of public lands and infrastructures

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In Tunisia, the digital map of public lands and infrastructures is now publicly available. This was announced by the Tunisian minister of State domains and land affairs, Mabrouk Korchid, during a press conference. “Individuals and communities concerned by the services of the ministry of State domains and land affairs, can now be updated about the State’s land thanks to a digital map, and follow expertise services related to sale and commercial contracts as well as concessions on a special website of the Ministry,” he said according to statements reported by Huffpost Maghreb. The official…

Security robot, work of Tunisian talents

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In an interview with robotics doctor Anis Sahbani, CEO of “Enova Robotics” company and inventor of the security robot “Pearl guard”, we learned that this robot, invented in 2015, is a first in the world. This invention won in Tunisia the first prize in the national competition for inventions and was also awarded abroad at the International Trade Shows for Inventions organized notably in Cairo (2016), France, Geneva, Austria and Kuwait (in 2017). “Enova-Robotics” is a public limited company located in the “Soft-Tech” business incubator of the Sousse competitive cluster…

Drug shortages: why we run out of drugs

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It may be surprising that drug shortages are such a big problem in Tunisia nowadays. There are seemingly endless supplies of medications available to the public with just a short trip to the pharmacy. But this is not the case for some medications, especially those used for more rare diseases. Supply and demand play a key role in the shortages of certain medications. Prescription pain medications and cancer medications find themselves in this category of shortages. The central pharmacy of Tunisia, public hospitals and private clinics become a nightmare to…

The Netherlands and World Bank Renew Their Engagement Towards Tunisia as part of Compact with Africa

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A Memorandum of Understanding expressing the commitment of the Netherlands and the World Bank (WB) Group to support the Tunisian Government, within the framework of the G20 programme for the Compact With Africa, to undertake a coordinated programme of reforms to increase domestic and foreign investments in Tunisia, was signed on Monday by Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of the Netherlands Sigrid Kaag and Bank Group Tunisia Country Manager Tony Verheijen said the World Bank in a statement. The Compact with Africa (CwA), created in 2017, sets up…

AEE Tunisia Chapter organizes info session on CEM

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The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Tunisia Chapter organized on Sunday in Tunis an info session on the Certified Energy Manager (CEM). The event gathered eminent experts in the energy fields, academics and students who came to enrich a fruitful debate on the importance of Certified Energy Manager in their professional career in addition to information about the way to join the CEM process and the guidelines of the certification in order to succeed in the CEM examination for the benefit of the energy engineer as an individual and for…

Chinese acupuncture cures patients in rural Tunisia

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Fatima Kehila, a retired Tunisian teacher who used to suffer from leg arthritis for years, felt very lucky that she has been cured after receiving free acupuncture treatment from a Chinese medical team. Living in Sidi Thabet, a rural town in the northern suburbs of Tunisian capital Tunis, Kehila received the treatment at home every week by the Chinese doctors on a medical assistance mission in Tunis. Every week, the team of five crosses a distance of around 30 km to provide free acupuncture therapy to local residents of this…

Libya rejects AU Free Movement Protocol

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Foreign Minister of Presidential Council, Mohammed Siyala, has refused to sign the protocol attached to the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AFCFTA) on the freedom of movement of people and the right of residence. The AFCFTA agreement was signed by 44 countries out of 50, but the Free Movement Protocol attached to it was only signed by 29 African countries. The agreement was signed at the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The Media Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed Siyala’s…

TunisianMonitorOnline

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Eagerly, we launched a new website in the English language. It is a willingness by our team to find a new way within a country known by the dominance of the French language in the media landscape during decades, in coexistence with native language. Actually, we are aware that the task is difficult in particular for those who began their press professional career in Arabic for a long time, but the challenge is greater than any other emotion. We are ready to achieve this dream with the necessary passion and…