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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 Agency (COMESA RIA), the forum will be attended by a number of African Tunisian and 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 COMESA RIA.
The Director General of the COMESA RIA, 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 countries, 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…

The major event for the promotion and development of the aerospace sector in Tunisia in terms of attracting FDI and subcontracting is back: Aerospace Meetings Tunisia kicked off on 23 April and ended on 25 April at El Mghira Park. This 4th edition was highlighted by Féryel Ouerghi, Minister of Economy and Planning who indicated, during the inaugural plenary session, that the aeronautics industry represents a priority and important sector in the national industrial strategy while stressing that the major objective is to position Tunisia as a key player on a regional and international scale…

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 […]