TUNIS: Tunisia's economic growth is expected to slow to about 1 percent this year, compared with 2.3 percent in 2014, with a stable deficit of about 5 percent of gross domestic product, Finance Minister Slim Chaker told Reuters.

The North African country's tourism industry — which represents about 7 percent of the economy — has been hit by two major Islamist militant attacks this year. Strikes and protests also disrupted the country's vital phosphate exports.