Economy - Development | Travel - Leisure Tunisia to double air space control
afrol News, 5 November - Tunisia is improving its air traffic surveillance network by doubling its current capacity. Also, the airport on the Island of Djerba, a major tourism destination, is to get a technological upgrading, allowing all-weather landings.
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Politics | Society Ben Ali gets fifth term in presidency
afrol News, 26 October - Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has secured a fifth term after winning 89.62 percent of the votes in the 2009 presidential election over the weekend, the Interior Ministry has announced. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Labour Tunisia tops competitive rank in Africa
afrol News, 17 June - Tunisia tops the competitiveness index in Africa according to the 2009 World Economic Forum report published in Cape Town, South Africa, by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the World Bank and the Global Economic Forum on competitiveness of the continent. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development Tunisia sign currency guarantee agreement with WB
afrol News, 12 June - The Tunisian government has signed an expanded ISDA Master Agreement with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), of the World Bank as a market intermediary to manage the currency and interest rate exposure of debt owed to creditors other than the World Bank. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Gender - Women | Society Tunisia leads Arab women organisation
afrol News, 3 March - Tunisia’s First Lady, Leila Ben Ali, has been selected as a chair of the Arab Women Organization (AWO) from 2009 to 2011, Minister of Women, Family, Children and the Elderly, Mrs Sarra Kanoun Jarraya has announced in the Capital Tunis. Read more
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Travel - Leisure | Politics | Economy - Development Airbus to build body parts plant in Tunisia
afrol News, 3 February - Aerolia, a French company has signed an agreement estimated at €60 million with the Tunisian government for the construction of a plant south of the capital Tunis, to produce front segments of Airbus planes, local news agency reported. Read more
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