AllAfrica News: Tunisia

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- Prime Minister Sarra Zaâfrani Zenzri on Tuesday chaired a Small Cabinet Meeting dedicated to the broad guidelines of the 2027 finance bill, which marks a break with previous management approaches and aims to strengthen the resilience of the national economy in the face of global crises.

[Daba Finance] The Tunis Stock Exchange suspended trading for the remainder of Tuesday's session after the benchmark TUNINDEX fell sharply, triggering the market's circuit breaker mechanism designed to curb excessive volatility during periods of heavy selling.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- Trading on the Tunis Stock Exchange resumed on Wednesday under normal conditions following a one-hour suspension, after the mechanism provided for in the Trading Floor Regulations had been applied, said Sonia Ben Frej, Chairwoman of the Tunis Stock Exchange Board and Managing Director of stockbroker BH Invest, told TAP on Wednesday.

[RFI] In Tunisia long power outages across the country have added to the strain of an intense heatwave, with temperatures as high as 49C. In neighbouring Algeria, more than 100 people were hospitalised after wildfires, the country's interior minister said this week.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -- President Kaïs Saïed chaired a high-level meeting at Carthage Palace on Wednesday to discuss the prolonged water and electricity outages affecting several regions, as well as the recent wave of wildfires. The meeting brought together the ministers of the interior, equipment, industry and energy, and agriculture, along with the heads of STEG, SONED...