Month: September 2023

2,350 tourists aboard Costa Favolosa cruise ship as it berths at La Goulette port

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With 2350 tourists on board, “Costa Cruises” cruise ship Costa Favolosa docked at the port of La Goulette on Tuesday from Palermo, Italy, after an eight-year interruption. Launched in 2011, the Costa Favolosa is one of the largest cruise ships in the Mediterranean, with 1,508 cabins. It is 290 meters long and has 17 floors. Costa Cruises, founded in the 1940s, is one of the oldest customers of the Port of La Goulette and has been operating voyages to Tunisia since the 1980s. Costa Cruises’ return to Tunisian ports is…

We will not accept any implicit resettlement of immigrants, says FM to UN General Assembly

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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nabil Ammar, said in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York that “Tunisia will not accept the implicit resettlement of irregular migrants”, according to Foreign Ministry’s Facebook page. “Tunisia, in turn, condemns any irresponsible political and media exploitation of the suffering of the victims of irregular migration”, he continued, stressing the need to follow up the process of the “Conference on Development and Migration” hosted by the Italian capital, Rome, early last summer, with a Tunisian-Italian initiative”. The Foreign Minister declared that…

EBRD – AfDB: Employment Creation Task Force for Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt

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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have announced the establishment of a Task Force for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt. This is a joint task force to encourage entrepreneurship and stimulate job creation and growth in these three countries, according to an EBRD press release. The official launch of the Task Force took place yesterday, September 21, 2023, during a workshop at the AfDB’s North Africa Regional Office in Tunis. This joint Task Force on entrepreneurship and very…

€127 million aid package announced by EC to support implementation of MoU with Tunisia

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” In support of the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a strategic and comprehensive partnership between the EU and Tunisia, the European Commission announces a 60 million euro budget support package for Tunisia and a migration operational assistance package worth around 67 million euros, to be disbursed in the coming days, contracted and delivered rapidly respectively, according to a press release from the Commission of the European Union published on Friday. This follows Thursday’s telephone conversation between Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Policy, and Nabil…

Saudi film To My Son by director and actor Dhafer L’Abidine to be screened at Horizons of Arab Cinema competition

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Saudi film To My Son by director and actor Dhafer L’Abidine will be screened at this year’s Horizons of Arab Cinema competition. Produced by MBC Studios, the film is the second film directed by the famous star, and revolves around the return of a Saudi father and son to Saudi Arabia after a long period of living outside the country that ended in a traumatic accident. L’Abidine’s first film, Ghodwa, was previously screened at the 43rd Cairo Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI award. TunisianMonitorOnline

CIFF names Danis Tanović President of the International Competition Jury at its 45th edition

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As the 45th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival approaches, the appointment of the renowned Bosnian director Danis Tanović as the president of the Official Competition Jury is unveiled. This choice is made in a concerted effort to draw in prominent figures from the global film industry to take part in the festival, with the aim is to foster a platform for the exchange of experiences among emerging Egyptian, Arab, and international filmmakers who are participating in the event. Born in 1969, Bosnian director and screenwriter Danis Tanović is…

Fita 2023 opens in Tunis: rebuilding bridges and strengthening exchanges

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The 6th edition of the African Trade and Investment Finance Forum (Fita) started on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, in Tunis, at the initiative of the Tunisia-Africa Business Council (TABC). The two-day event, organized under the theme: “Africa in the midst of the global crisis and the role of the private sector in sustainable and inclusive economic transformation”, aims to “get across the message that Tunisia is not a racist country and that all Africans are welcome here under the law”, declared TABC President Anis Jaziri at the opening of the…

About 52% energy security for Tunisia

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Secretary General of the Tunisian Energy Society Fayçal Farhat Thursday said on Express Fm that up to the end of June 2023, Tunisia’s energy security stood at around 52%, adding that 50% of energy needs come from imports, which is considered a very low rate. He affirmed that the solutions lie in exploiting the resources currently available to Tunisia, stressing that it is unreasonable that national production of renewable energies should not exceed 2%. Farhat went on to say that energy development projects, concepts and strategies should be put into…

Tunisia foils 23 illegal immigration attempts

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Tunisia recently thwarted 23 illegal immigration attempts to Italy overnight, the Tunisian National Guard announced on Wednesday. “The Tunisian Maritime Guard thwarted these illegal immigration attempts late Tuesday and early Wednesday off the country’s southeast and central coasts,” the Tunisian National Guard said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. Guard units also rescued 463 people from sinking boats. “Among the illegal immigrants, 349 are of different African nationalities and the others are Tunisian nationals. “Seven boats and a large sum of money were seized, in addition to the…

Foreign tourist arrivals in Tunisia increase significantly in 2023

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Tunisia’s tourism sector is booming, with a remarkable 62.4% increase in foreign tourist arrivals in the first eight months of this year, the Ministry of Tourism said on Friday. According to the Ministry, between January and August this year, the total number of tourists reached 6.23 million. This remarkable growth can be attributed to a substantial increase in the number of French (up 23%), German (up 66.3%), Italian (up 25.9%) and Swiss (up 23.7%) tourists compared to the same period in 2022. In addition, there was a significant increase in…