(TAP correspondent Khedija Bousselmi) – Nearly 70 Tunisian businessmen and women are working, with the support of the government, to strengthen their position in the African market by taking advantage of its opening after the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). The Tunisian business leaders who arrived Sunday evening in the Ivorian capital Abidjan as part […]
(TAP) – The public prosecutor at the Judicial Counter-Terrorism Division reversed its May 15, 2019 decision to close a case related to sending youths to hotbeds of tension, the Free Destourian Party (French:PDL) said. This case was initiated following a complaint lodged by the PDL against Ennahdha in May 2018. The public prosecutor also decided to add related […]
(TAP) – Echaab party said it “is running in December 17 legislative elections out of conviction that July 25 process came to protect State institutions and national sovereignty. The party pledged, in a statement, to come up with programmes, alternatives and solutions to the different crises shaking the country. The protection of the State and its institutions, the […]
(TAP) – Spokesperson for the Ennahdha movement, Imed Khemiri criticised the “autocratic” approach of President Kais Saied, saying it is a failure. At a press conference on the latest political developments Monday, the movement noted “a total lack of transparency and sincerity of the ruling power,” especially with the differences found between the institutions of the Presidency of the […]
(TAP)- The production of green hydrogen should not jeorpardise the national strategy of transition to renewables and decarbonisation objectives, German Green Foundation Heinrich Böll Stiftung said in a recent report. The report contains remarks made by experts at a workshop held by the foundation last October 12 in Tunis. The production of green hydrogen needs to conform with high standards […]
(TAP) – The Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HAICA) has delivered three mobile radio units to Tunisian radio stations. This is part of a project between HAICA and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to support Tunisian radio stations, in the aftermath of the COVID-19. The agreement on the delivery of these three mobile radio units was […]
(TAP) – The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) said on Monday that the images and video sequences shared on social media and websites sites “do not concern, for the most part, the candidates for the December 17 legislative elections”. “Their dissemination is part of a methodical campaign to denigrate the electoral process, with the aim of influencing participation […]
Casablanca – The Casablanca Stock Exchange started slightly up on Monday, with the index of all stocks, the MASI, gaining 0.21% to 11,051.27 points (pts). A few minutes after the opening, the MSI 20, which includes the 20 most liquid stocks, rose 0.33% to 893.02 pts, and the Casablanca ESG 10, a thematic index that calculates the performance of socially […]
Tangier – The fourth and final meeting of the sixteenth replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-16), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, opened on Monday in Tangier. Inaugurated by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, representing the Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah, Governor of the AfDB Group for Morocco, and Akinwumi […]
Marrakech – The handicraft sector is an important lever of Morocco’s socio-economic development, underlined on Monday in Marrakech, Head of the Government Aziz Akhannouch. The handicraft sector employs about 22% of the working population, contributes to 7% of GDP, while its sales generate about MAD 140 billion, added Akhannouch in a speech read on his behalf, at the opening of […]
Rabat – The House of Advisors on Monday adopted by majority vote the Finance Bill 50.22, for the 2023 budget year. The 2023 Finance Bill was approved by 56 advisors, while 11 others opposed and with 6 abstentions, during a plenary session chaired by Upper House Speaker Enaam Mayara. The main amendments approved by the House concern, among other things, […]
Abuja – The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, received in audience, Monday in Abuja, the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, bearing a message from His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The audience, held in the presence of HM the King’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Moha Ou Ali Tagma, focused on relations between […]
