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On Wednesday 25 September 2024, the German group Marquardt inaugurated its third plant in Tunisia for the manufacture of automotive components, located at NEOPARK El Fejja in the industrial zone. The plant, which specialises in the manufacture of electronic and electromagnetic components for leading car brands on the international market, represents an investment of almost […]

Tunisia, South Africa, Gabon, Mauritius and Ghana remain leaders in the implementation of e-government in their respective regions, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) e-Government Survey 2024: Accelerating Digital Transformation for Sustainable Development. These countries already held the same rank in the 2022 survey.Tunisia retains its top position […]

International investments in Tunisia reached the amount of 1,388.9 MTND* at the end of the first half of 2024, according to a report made public in mid-August by FIPA Tunisia. Compared to the last three years, these investments recorded variations of +13.8% compared to 2023, +34.2% compared to 2022 and +42.0% compared to 2021. The […]

Tunisia is increasingly emerging as an IT investment destination for the EU. With its multilingual human potential and 10,000 graduates a year in various digital professions, Tunisia is the leading innovative economy in Africa according to the Bloomberg Innovation Index. DATAXION has already installed the largest data centre in Africa, while the SOFRECOM Group is […]

On 27 June 2024, Tunisia will host for the first time the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Investment Forum (CIF 2024), with the participation of 21 African States and international organisations.
Organised by the COMESA Regional Investment Agency (AIRC), the forum will be attended by a number of African and Tunisian international organisations and parties, including the European Union delegation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as the Ministries of the Economy and Planning, Trade and Export Development and the Tunisian Union of Industry, Commerce and Handicrafts (UTICA), and the Investment Promotion Agency, according to a press release issued by AIRC.
The Director General of the AIRC, Hiba Salama, said that this forum, organised this year for the first time in Tunisia following its accession to COMESA in 2018, aims to encourage trade and investment between the COMESA States, and to inform Tunisian businessmen of the investment and trade opportunities in the COMESA States, in particular the advantages offered by the organisation and its member companies in the field of investment and trade…

NextProtein, a company founded by two Tunisians, Syrine Chaalala and Mohamed Gastli, signed a partnership agreement last week that will enable it to expand its activities in Latin America. The investment, worth 655 million pesos (around 120 MTND), will enable the company to set up five plants across the country, create 400 jobs and recycle around 200 tonnes of organic waste a year. Thanks to this partnership, the company will have access to expired vegetable and fruit waste from Central de Abasto, the Mexican capital’s main wholesale market…