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President Kaïs Saïed appears to have ruled out the prospect of a $2 billion loan agreement with the IMF in favour of new and as yet unspecified tax rises on rich Tunisians...
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President Kaïs Saïed is stepping up his crackdown on opposition politicians following the arrest and detention of Rachid Ghannouchi leader of the Islamist Ennahda party...
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After a two-week absence from the public stage President Kaïs Saïed returned to the fray on 4 April with fresh condemnation of his opponents announcing that many were under investigation for 'contacts with foreign diplomats' and that he was dismissing several judges...
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President Kaïs Saïed is making good on his 28 December promise to crack down on what he calls 'the enemies of Tunisia'...
That a deal with Tunisia remains on the EU's priority list despite President Kaïs Saïed's remarks in February that 'urgent measures' were needed to combat 'hordes of illegal migrants' from sub-Saharan Africa underscores the political importance that the EU has attached to migration control (Dispatches 28/2/23 AU calls President Saïed's complaints about African migrations 'racialised hate speech')...
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After President Kaïs Saïed told the National Security Council in Tunis there was a plot to settle migrants from south of the Sahara in Tunisia the African Union swiftly condemned his remarks 'with deep shock and concern' at their form and substance...
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Vol 64 No 3 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
As Lavrov's next Africa tour will focus on North Africa he will devote much effort to secure Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's attendance and is also likely to get Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed and Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to sign up...
Pressure on President Kaïs Saïed to step down is mounting after a series of political reverses and stark evidence of his diminishing popularity the most recent of which was the abstention of 89% of the electorate in the second round of the parliamentary elections on 29 January (AC Vol 63 No 25 Apathy to greet polling day)...
In Tunisia President Kaïs Saïed is ruling alone but has a new deal with the IMF for a reform-orientated economic policy...
A new-look leader when elected in 2019 Kaïs Saïed is undoubtedly distanced from traditional Islamist and 'secular' political parties...
Relations between the GNU and Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed have been strained at times but the Tunisian economy is in dire straits and Dubaiba promised to pay US$250m owed to Tunisia for healthcare and other debts...
