Tunisia
A presidency statement on Tuesday said only units that have been overhauled and no longer emit pollutants will be brought back into service, while those judged obsolete and non-compliant are to be dismantled. Saied called Gabès a victim of environmental pollution and of what he described as political pollution, and said public plants are not for sale. The Stop Pollution campaign replied the same day that every unit pollutes and demanded that all of them be taken down.
Olfa Mahjoub, a researcher at the national institute for rural engineering, water and forestry, told national radio on Monday that the share does not exceed 22 percent, of which only about 4 percent goes to agriculture. The country produces roughly 300 million cubic metres of treated wastewater a year. The target for 2050 is more than 560 million cubic metres and reuse above 80 percent, which would require extended networks and clearer rules.
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Webdo · Tuesday, 11 August 2026
The head of industrial energy efficiency at the national energy agency ANME says consumption is therefore heavily concentrated, so measures at a small number of plants go a long way. He pointed to a waste heat recovery project at a cement works that cost about 40 million dinars, cut the plant's electricity use by 30 percent and paid for itself in under two years. Studies suggest the technique could yield up to 80 megawatts in the cement sector alone.
His defence committee says the management of Mornaguia prison informed his lawyers that Ghannouchi had lifted the protest he began on 6 August, at the request of the medical team following him in hospital. He had also stopped taking his medication. Ennahdha welcomed the decision, citing his advanced age and chronic illnesses, demanded an end to what the party calls an isolation imposed by the justice minister, and called for his release.
The National Institute of Statistics published its foreign trade note for the first seven months of the year on Wednesday. The deficit stands at 14,957.6 million dinars against 11,904.2 million over the same period in 2025. Exports rose 9.9 percent to 40,638.4 million dinars and imports rose 13.7 percent to 55,596 million, so the coverage rate fell to 73.1 percent from 75.6. Energy alone accounts for 7,946.1 million of the gap against 6,037.2 million a year earlier; excluding it the deficit is 7,011.5 million. Olive oil sales reached 3,594.6 million dinars against 2,506.1 million, while exports of phosphates and derivatives fell 11.9 percent and textiles, clothing and leather 3.6 percent.
A restricted ministerial council met at La Kasbah on Wednesday under the head of government, Sarra Zaâfrani Zenzri, and decided that Tunisie Autoroutes will go on operating both motorways. A new concession contract will be signed for the A1 between Hammam-Lif and M'saken, whose current contract runs to the end of 2028, and a second for the A2 between Tunis and Jelma, which will open under toll once its works are finished, expected in 2027. The government cited the company's technical capacity and equipment, and said the choice preserves state control over the network. Zaâfrani Zenzri said 743 kilometres of motorway are in service, 567 of them tolled, and pressed the contractors on the A2, 186 kilometres built in eight sections for close to 1,700 million dinars, to keep to their deadlines.
