Divona/Orange - France Télécom Consortium has been shortlisted as the tenderer having forwarded the best technical bid for the second- and third- generation mobile telephony license, the Communication Technologies Ministry announced, on Monday, in a communiqué. ...
Munich Re, an insurance company, is leading efforts to garner support for a vast project, dubbed Desertec, to collect energy at solar farms in countries like Tunisia and then send it to Europe in the form of electricity. Munich Re wants other companies like the giant engineering group Siemens, Deutsche Bank, and utilities like RWE and E.ON to become ...
For the 2nd time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) chooses Tunisia to present its report on regional economic outlook for the Maghreb and the Middle East. The tone is much less injunctive and the approach less prescriptive, even flexible, which has not failed to catch up those whose job is to deal with this international financial institution. ...
The fifth international seminar on "Energies, Climate Change and Sustainable Development" Monday opened works in Hammamet. Experts and academics from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, Belgium and Italy, alongside doctoral students and representatives from regional ...
Tunisia has been ranked as the most competitive country in Africa by the 2009 report published in Cape Town, South Africa, by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the World Bank and the World Economic Forum on competitiveness of the continent. The country was ranked 36th at the world level ...
The World Bank on June 11 announced that the Government of Tunisia has signed an expanded ISDA Master Agreement with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the World Bank Group entity that engages with its middle-income shareholders through financing, guarantees, and knowledge and advisory services. ...
The 10th edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Textile-Clothing Fair, "Texmed 2009," was inaugurated, on Wednesday at the El Kram Exhibition Centre, by industry, energy and small- and medium-sized enterprises minister Afif Chelbi, and delegate minister to Prime Minister Ridha Touiti. ...
Tourism Minister Khélil Lajimi chaired a working session to follow up the tourist situation and preparations for the high season, with attendance of executives of the ministry and Tunisian National Tourism Board (ONTT) senior officials. The meeting focused particularly on the situation ...
After participating in the Fair of Algiers, where their number had surpassed for the first time, that of French companies, Chinese enterprises , particularly those operating in the rich province of Shanghai, have joined Tunis for a week visit . With impressions rather mixed, the majority of the representatives of these companies were surprised over “ ...
Favouring exchanges between Tunisia and Germany in the renewable energies sector, notably the use of solar energy, is the focus of the 5th Tunisian-German meeting on renewable energies, held on Wednesday in Tunis at the initiative of the Tunisian-German Chamber of Commerce ...
As far as foreign trade is concerned, it is not yet the end of the tunnel. The euro area as well as the United States is experiencing successive quarters of declining growth and recession, which inevitably resulted in a contraction in global demand. ...
The contract for the proposed Dakar-Djibouti highway project will be awarded soon, according to the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), a multi-nation organization set up to ensure an integrated socio-economic development in Africa. ...