{"id":233187,"date":"2026-05-14T03:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-forward-summit-tunisia-counts-on-startups-to-build-development-model-based-on-innovation-says-pm\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:53:17","slug":"africa-forward-summit-tunisia-counts-on-startups-to-build-development-model-based-on-innovation-says-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-forward-summit-tunisia-counts-on-startups-to-build-development-model-based-on-innovation-says-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Forward Summit &#8211; Tunisia Counts On Startups to Build Development Model Based On Innovation, Says PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Tunis, May 12 \u2014 Tunisia is counting on start-ups to build a development model based on innovation and flexibility, Prime Minister Sarra Za\u00e2frani Zenzeri said on the sidelines of her participation in the Africa Forward Summit, co-organised by Kenya and France on May 11-12 in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Digital transformation is a key driver for the national economy, given its role in stimulating investment and improving the business climate, she added as she met young Tunisian entrepreneurs based abroad and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605130064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, May 12 \u2014 Tunisia is counting on start-ups to build a development model based on innovation and flexibility, Prime Minister Sarra Za\u00e2frani Zenzeri said on the sidelines of her participation in the Africa Forward Summit, co-organised by Kenya and France on May 11-12 in Nairobi. Digital transformation is a key driver for the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":233188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,9112,6935,14176,5989,7467,9019,257,254,8269,5757,4703,653],"class_list":["post-233187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-based","tag-build","tag-counts","tag-development","tag-innovation","tag-model","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-startups","tag-summit","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}