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Tunisia: Zituna Bank comes into being

The Constituent General Assembly of Zituna Bank was held on Wednesday, October 21 in Tunis. The agenda of this General Assembly included, in particular, the final approval of the statutes of the bank and the appointment of first directors and auditors. ...

Tunisia: Final results of presidential and legislative elections

President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali achieved a landslide victory in the 2009 presidential election after winning 89. 62 pct of the votes cast nationwide and by Tunisian expatriates abroad. The results of the presidential and legislative elections were announced at a press conference held on Monday ...

Tunisia: Enfidha International Airport to enter service in early November

TAV Tunisie, a subsidiary of TAV Airports Holding, is preparing to inaugurate Africa’s newest airport, Enfidha Zine El Abidine Ben Ali International, in early November. The airport, in which TAV Tunisie has invested €500 million, will have an initial capacity of 7 million passengers ...

Tunisia: Good news in the 2010 Finance Act draft

The year 2010 is due to be over in two months. Except from presidential and legislative elections that will surely mark the economic life in Tunisia and are present in minds of all traders and investors, eyes and ears are glued to the next Finance Act. A first draft had been outlined at the last cabinet meeting. It would include a number of important measures which are already good news to businesses and Tunisian ...

Tunisia currency reserves reach 13 240 million dinars

After the recent promulgation of a legislative financial framework Tunisia is moving closer to become an international financial hub. In a news conference held in Tunis,the Tunisian Central Bank Governor . Taoufik Baccar said that the country’s objectives are to promote international banking ...

Tunisia: A set of measures in favour of Tunisian economy and enterprises

President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali opened, on Sunday morning, the electoral campaign for the presidential and legislative elections. He presented a new programme which he placed under the motto “Together We Meet Challenges,” a programme for the coming five years (2009/2014), but at the same time one laying the ground for the stages to follow ...

Tunisia: The Enfidha Industrial Park, a logistics hub in the heart of the Mediterranean

The building of a new international airport in the region Enfidha, due to be operational in October and the construction of a deepwater port a few miles from the airport area predestined  Enfidha to become an area of logistics for  multimodal transport. ...

Tunisia: Good agricultural season and recovery of production in energy and mining

The BCT Executive Board held on September 30, 2009 its monthly meeting. In a press release, it pointed out that , over September 2009, the international economic and financial situation was marked by ongoing appearance of indicators reflecting signs of start-up of recovery for the world economy though forecasts account for low levels ...

Is digital divide the only one in the Islamic world?

Of the fifty Muslim countries classified in ICT Readiness Index, developed by the International Telecommunication Union with the aim of identifying differences between the 150 countries around the world, only 9 countries have sufficient resources to be included in the two most important categories in this classification. A single Muslim country ...

Tunisia takes part in 4th meeting of international participants in ”Shanghai 2010”

Tunisia took part on September 23-24, 2009 in the 4th meeting of international participants in World Expo “Shanghai 2010,” held in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The gathering, attended by representatives of 240 countries ...

Tunisia: Financial market funding of private investment: 8.2% in 2008

According to the Financial Market Council’s annual report, the 2008 financial year was marked by IPO of two new companies, ARTES  “Tunisian Automotive Network and Services” and “Poulina Group Holding” (PGH), bringing to 50 the number of listed companies. ...

Tunisia / Italy: Exchange instead of “cut and run”

Tunisian and Italian businessmen are involved in several approaches aiming at boosting partnership and bringing trade exchanges to higher levels  A workshop on ways to strengthen relations between Tunisian and Italian business spheres was held on Monday in Tunis by the Agency for the Promotion of Italian- Mediterranean ...
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