One of her first tasks will be to finalise an aid and migration pact with Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed which has been stuck in negotiations...
A day after German Chrisitian Democrat Ursula von der Leyen secured her second term as President of the European Commission on 18 July one of her closest partners in Africa Tunisia's president Kaïs Saïed announced he would be running for another term in presidential elections on 6 October...
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President Kaïs Saïed has not announced his intention to stand but the field of candidates ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 6 October is quickly thinning out...
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President Kaïs Saïed's government is negotiating a series of repatriation agreements with African countries in an attempt to increase voluntary returns of irregular migrants Foreign Minister Mounir Ben Rjiba has said...
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Vol 65 No 10 |
- TUNISIA
- ITALY
President Kaïs Saïed's speech in which he espoused the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory (in this case that Africans are changing the predominantly Arab country's demography) resulted in thousands of people mainly from West Africa being evicted from their homes in Tunisia and beaten...
Last October Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed blocked entry visas for a group of Euro MPs who had wanted to monitor the implementation of the country's cash for migration control deal...
While Sisi's deal with the EU is part of a broad agenda to secure cash and investment from the international system the Commission has become the main financial lifeline for Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed's government after paying out €150m ($162m) in budget support on 4 March...
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President Kaïs Saïed is piling on the pressure for Tunisia's central bank to become the latest African bank to provide billions of dollars in direct budget finance a move which economists warn is likely to lead to inflation and a currency collapse...
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Vol 65 No 3 |
- TUNISIA
- CHINA
For President Kaïs Saïed's beleaguered and cash-strapped government foreign interest – especially outside the usual suspects in the European Union – is regarded as politically useful even if not financially beneficial...
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Vol 65 No 3 |
- ITALY
- AFRICA
Meloni has been at the heart of the EU's efforts to broker 'cash for migrant control' deals with Tunisia and Egypt last year telling Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed that Italy would provide economic support in return (AC Vol 64 No 13 Brussels deal rescues Saïed)...
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But President Kaïs Saïed who backs calls for a Palestinian state is failing to manage the mood of the country...
