by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Mar 18, 2024 | Economic, Social, Tunisia
Tunisia: ClusterLab Success Points to Strain on Tunisian Entrepreneurs Summary: In mid-March 2024, Tunisian-founded and United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, ClusterLab, received $600,000 in funding from investors, including InstaDeep...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Feb 23, 2024 | Diplomacy, Economic, Tunisia
Tunisia: Riyadh Asserts Regional Leadership, Promising Phosphate Investment Summary: On 21 February 2024, Sultan al-Marshad, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) visited Tunisia indicating imminent plans to invest in revitalizing the rail...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Jun 2, 2023 | Economic, Tunisia
Tunisia: $500 Million African Export-Import Bank Loan Approved Summary: On 1 June 2023, the Tunisian Parliament approved by majority vote an agreement to obtain a loan from the African Export-Import Bank, in the amount of $500 million US dollars. The agreement was...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | May 31, 2023 | Economic, Tunisia
Tunisia: World Bank Re-engagement to Provide Stabilizing Influence Summary: The World Bank has reached an agreement to re-engage Tunisia following the recent abrupt pause in cooperation. The pause in engagement was a reaction against comments by President Kais Saied...
by Dispatch Risk Analysis | Apr 22, 2023 | Diplomacy, Economic, Tunisia
Tunisia: USAID, World Bank Finance Wheat Purchase as Aid Approach Shifts Summary: On 21 April 2023, the US Ambassador to Tunisia, Joey Hood, announced that the US and the World Bank had partnered to facilitate the financing of a shipment of 25,000 metric tons of...
