Tunisia plans to invest $22 mln to reform its transport sector by 2040

Tunisia wants to invest about $22 billion in its transportation sector in the next ten years. According to Xinhua that announced the plan on May 1, 2019, citing the country’s transport minister Hichem Ben Ahmed, this is to reform the sector. Presenting the study for a national master plan for the transport sector by 2040, the official indicated that the railway sub-sector would capture most of the planned investments. He explained that in the master plan, 19 projects were dedicated to the railway subsector for TND28 billion ($9.2 billion). Road infrastructures come…

Nearly 100 Migrants Rescued in Libya Trying to Reach Europe Illegally – Navy

All rescued migrants were male, with the majority of them being citizens of Bangladesh and Sudan. There were also people from Algeria, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Niger, and Tunisia aboard the boat, Sputnik news reports. The Libyan Coast Guard has rescued 96 migrants who were trying to reach Europe illegally, the Libyan Navy, which is controlled by the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord, said in a statement on Wednesday, “A central district coast guard patrol found 96 migrants aboard an old rubber boat on April 30…Migrants were taken to Khoms… After…