UIC Director General François Davenne met with Mr Rabie Majidi, Minister of Transport of Tunisia, and Mr Taoufik Boufaied, CEO of SNCFT, in Tunis on 7 March.

Mr Majidi highlighted the importance of putting in place extensive cooperation between SNCFT and UIC. During the discussion, the parties identified SNCFT’s needs and priority topics, such as telecoms, safety, rolling stock maintenance and the compatibility of railways in Africa. They also discussed relaunching the African Union of Railways (AUR), a specialist institution of the African Union, with the support of UIC, as well as the organisation of the second Digital African Railways Conference in Tunis, scheduled for the end of September 2022, which will focus on priority projects for the African continent such as infrastructure, blockchain, multimodality, telecoms, the transition to 5G, geographical information systems (GIS), GSM-R/ETCS, training and other topics of shared interest.