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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…

Habemus Solutions, the German company specialising in electronic engineering and embedded software, which has been operating in Sfax since 2020, has just announced the opening of a second office in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. The announcement was made by its Managing Director, Gottfried Fisher, during his meeting with Mr Jalel TEBIB, Managing Director of FIPA […]

On 12 April 2024, Visteon Tunisia, which specialises in electronic automotive components, inaugurated a new unit in Bir El Bey, Tunisia, in the presence of Sachin Lawande, Group Executive Director. The new unit was set up by 100% Tunisian skills in the space of ten months, with a 60% integration rate, to create 400 additional […]

The Japanese group and global leader Sumitomo has just begun construction work on its third and largest automotive wiring harness factory in Tunisia, following those in Jendouba and El-Fejja.
The new production unit, Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze Tunisia, will focus on manufacturing wiring harnesses for Mercedes electric vehicles…