[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The monthly trade deficit shrank 4.16% in March to TND 1,540.1 million compared to the previous month, reads the National Institute of Statistics (INS) monthly report on Foreign Trade at Current Prices, March 2024.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- President Kais Saied met with Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani at Carthage Palace on Wednesday evening to discuss the progress of the government's work over the past few days, in particular measures relating to the return of Tunisians living abroad.
[Algerie Presse Service] Tunis -- At the end of their 1st Consultative Meeting held on Monday in Tunis, the leaders of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya emphasized the need to unify their positions and strengthen consultation and coordination in order to bolster the fundamentals of security, stability and development in the region, and reinforce its resilience against the emerging regional changes and successive international crises.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Nineteen human corpses were fished out in the last 24 hours by the Sfax National Guard and midland coast guard units, and were taken to the mortuary, according to a National Guard General Directorate press release.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] At the end of the first consultative meeting held in Tunis on Monday at the invitation of President Kais Saied, the leaders of Tunisia, Algeria and Libya stressed the need to unify their positions and consolidate the tradition of consultation on various issues of common interest.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The first consultative meeting between Tunisian President Kais Saied, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and President of the Presidential Council of Libya Mohamed Younes al-Manfi concluded in Tunis on Monday.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- A ministerial working session held on Monday at the Government Palace in the Kasbah decided to take practical measures to start the actual use of the biometric national identity card and the biometric passport during the first six months of 2025.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- President Kais Saied saw off President of the Republic of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune and President of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mohamed Yunus al-Menfi, on Monday evening at the presidential suite of Tunis Carthage International Airport.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- Coastguard units, on Sunday, found the two people who had been missing since Saturday on board a fishing boat off the coast of Djerba, a security source told TAP.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Manouba -- Interior Minister Kamel Feki inaugurated on Thursday evening the headquarters of the central workshop of the Civil Protection in Manouba, the first part of which was completed at a cost of 3.5 million dinars, as part of pilot and integrated project in progress at a total cost of 6 million dinars.
[CPJ] New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Mohamed Boughaleb after he was convicted by a Tunis court of defamation and sentenced to six months in prison on Wednesday.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The current water situation in Tunisia is still worrying, despite recent rainfall. The filling rate of dams stands at just 36%, Secretary of State to the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in charge of Water Resources Ridha Gabouj said on Thursday.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- Five companies from the agri-food sector, operating mainly in the olive oil, table olives, dates and by-products, pasta and couscous sectors, are taking part in the 10th edition of the World Food Poland international trade fair held in Warsaw (Poland) on April 16-18.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) denounced the 6- month prison sentence handed down to journalist Mohamed Boughaleb on Wednesday evening, following a complaint lodged against him by an official of the Religious Affairs Ministry.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, set up by the National Security Council, met on Tuesday in the presence of representatives from several ministries.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis, April 18 -- Tunisia's average rainfall recorded a 20% deficit in February 2024 with important regional disparities, reads the National Institute of Meteorology (INM)'s monthly report published on Thursday.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- The bill on the creation of an independent regulatory authority for the electricity sector had been submitted to the Prime Minister for approval, said Secretary of State to Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy in charge of Energy Transition Wael Chouchane at a seminar held on Tuesday in Tunis, under the theme: "Renewables in Tunisia: Legal Framework and Funding Mechanisms."
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- "The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is working to set up Tunisia's first artificial intelligence (AI) institute at the University of Tunis, covering all training fields, at the start of the next academic year if the necessary preparations proceed as planned," Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Moncef Boukthir said on Tuesday.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Nabil Ammar and visiting Chair of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Admiral Rob Bauer discussed Monday the challenges facing the Mediterranean countries and ways of addressing them within the framework of the Mediterranean Dialogue.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis, April 16 -- Tunisia, which has suffered six years of drought over the past decade, is considered to be the 5th most vulnerable country in the world to the growing risk of droughts and water shortages, according to the latest report published in March 2024 by the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ).