The narrow streets of the old town of Tunis are thronged. The milling crowds push and squeeze their way between the chairs and tables of the coffee drinkers and the loudspeaker boxes of the street musicians. For some years now, the Medina of Tunis as the cityʹs old quarter is known, has been the place to get together over coffee, tea or a refreshing glass of lemonade when evening falls and the fast-breaking time arrives during Ramadan. The fasting month sees prices for such things rocketing in the Medina of Tunis, until"...

The Tunisian Parliament on Tuesday approved a law to combat illicit enrichment, a step designed to strengthen the government’s fight against widespread corruption in the country.
Since the 2011 uprising, Tunisia has been held up by Western partners as a model of democracy for the region. Economic progress has lagged, however, and corruption remains a major problem in the North African state.
The law will force the president, ministers, senior officials in the public sector, independent bodies, banks, judges,"...

Forty migrants including two pregnant women are stranded off Tunisia after being picked up by a supply ship in international waters off Malta and 'illegally transferred' to Tunisian territorial waters, activist organisation WatchTheMed Alarm Phone reported on Wednesday.

The migrants were intercepted by supply vessel Sarost 5 last Friday after setting sail from Libya and were heading for Italy or Malta, which both barred the rescue vessel,"...

The number of hires abroad has increased by 21%, until June 30, 2018, i.e. 1,125 recruited Tunisians against 930 recruited in 2017, according to the latest statistical data from the Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation (ATCT).

These hires concerned the fields of education and teaching with 496 guest workers, these fields being at the head of recruitment, accounting for 44% of the recruitment made. They are followed by health sectors with 253"...

Tunisia’s external trade recorded in volume (constant prices) a rise in export of around 8.6% and in import of 1.9% in the first half of 2018, said the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

In terms of prices, it went up by 16.6% for exports and 18.6% for imports.

At current prices, Tunisia’s external trade reached 20.354 billion dinars in exports in the"...

According to the activity indicators of the Tunisian Company of Pneumatic Industries (STIP) for the first half of the current year, the company’s revenues are up 32% compared to the same period in 2017.

In fact, the total turnover rose from 19.2 million dinars at the end of June 2017 to 25.5 million at June 30, thanks to a 40% increase in local turnover, reaching 23.6 million dinars.

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Hexabyte’s revenues increased by 45% to 4.5 million dinars in the first six months of the current year against 3.1 million a year earlier.

For the second quarter alone, this increase was 115% to 2.4 million dinars. This rise is mainly due to the increase in revenue from ADSL and XDSL solutions.

Correlatively to the sharp increase, operating expenses grew 60%, reaching"...

A multi-sector economic mission will be organized in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, from October 7 to 14, 2018, by the Export Promotion Center (CEPEX), the Tunisian Union of Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Center of Tunisia (CCIC), CEPEX reported.

The program of this mission will include an economic forum, targeted institutional meetings and networking, prospecting visits to 2 exhibitions specializing"...

Tunisia’s revenues from exporting organic products edged up 42% during the H1 of 2018 to 393 MD, mainly drawn from an exported volume of production worth over 41 thousand tonnes, i.e. a 45% increase, according to statistics published on Wednesday by the Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries Ministry.

Tunisia exported some 60 organic products towards 30 countries, namely the organic olive oil, 32.305 thousand tonnes of which marketed with"...

It is possible to produce over 500 megawatts from solar energy in Tunisia’s energy mix between 2030 and 2035, World Bank (WB) Energy Consultant Ezzedine Khalfallah Wednesday said in Gammarth.

A study devised by the WB on concentrating solar thermal technical assistance in the MENA region revealed that this energy cannot be implemented now given its high cost that surpasses that of other renewable energies (wind, photovoltaic…), he told"...