Day: October 11, 2023
UNICEF: one in five girls in Tunisia fails to graduate from middle school
One in five girls in Tunisia fails to graduate from middle school and four out of ten drop out of secondary school, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) figures show. The number of female mid and secondary school graduates, UNICEF said on Internati…
Tunisia has borrowed about TND 1,150 million from local banks since early 2023
Tunisia has borrowed about TND 1,150 million in foreign currency from local banks since the beginning of 2023 under two syndicated loans. This amount is twice the value of the foreign currency bank loan forecast in the State Budget Report for 2023, wh…
Eight Tunisian companies participate in ‘POLLUTEC 2023’, in France
Eight Tunisian companies are participating in the 2023 edition of the International Exhibition of Environmental Equipment, Technologies and Services (Pollutec), which is being held from October 10 to 13 in Lyon ( France), CEPEX said on Wednesday. Thes…
Flat6Labs: Scale Up Tunis programme helped create 61 jobs
The «Scale Up Tunisia» programme which provides support to 20 Tunisian startups helped create 61 positions, 29 of them to be fulfilled by women, reads a statement of Flat6Labs on Wednesday. The programme supported by the FAST project is funded by the …
President Saied urges end to feed monopoly in meeting with Minister of Agriculture
President Kais Saied discussed a number of issues related to the agricultural sector, including the need to end the monopoly on the supply of animal feed by a limited number of people, when he met with the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and …
Energy balance deficit accounts for 54% of trade deficit by late September (INS)
The energy balance deficit accounted for 54% of the trade deficit at the end of September 2023. The latter hovered around TND 14 billion, despite a decline on an annual basis. Excluding energy, Tunisia’s trade balance deficit shrank to TND 6372.2 mill…
CEPEX to organise prospecting mission to SIAL InterFOOD 2023
The Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX) is organising a prospecting mission to SIAL InterFOOD 2023 scheduled for November 8-11 in Jakarta (Indonesia), in a bid to look for new markets to develop Tunisian exports. A promotional space to showcase samples fr…
Tunindex closes Wednesday’s session in red
The stock market closed Wednesday’s session in red, down 0.17% to 8458.97 points with a high volume of TND 22 million, said stock market broker Tunisie Valeurs. Six block trades worth a total of TND 18.9 million on Attijari Bank shares boosted the tra…
CEPEX to organise business mission to Kenya and Tanzania, Nov.15-22
The Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX) will organise next November 15-22, in collaboration with Tunisia’s Embassy in Nairobi (Kenya), a business mission to Kenya and Tanzania. Organised with the support of the Promotion of Export Activities to New Market…
Gabes: Agricultural investments up 31%
The Agricultural Investment Promotion Agency (APIA) in Gabès approved 231 projects from early January to October 2023, with funds amounting to 22 million dinars. Agricultural investments, whose financing does not exceed 1 million dinars, recorded an i…