Rejecting conditions such as cutting subsidies, the embattled leader rejects diktats from the IMF, 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.
Tunisia s president is locking up political opponents and inciting racist violence, as the country s economy plunges into further chaos, President Kaïs Saïed is making good on his 28 December promise to crack down on what he calls the enemies of Tunisia . In the past few weeks, he has imprisoned political heavyweights including Noureddine Bhiri, a senior official in Islamist Ennahda party, influential activist Khayam Turki, and the former kingmaker for former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Kamel Eltaïef. Leaders from the National Salvation Front and other political activists have been locked up too.
Statement to the National Security Council follows deepening crackdown on opposition and dissidents, 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.
, 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. Only 8.8% of voters voted in the first, in December.
Foreign Minister Lavrov tours Southern Africa as Moscow wins more battles in information war with Europe and the US, Russian officials are confident that South Africa s President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend President Vladimir Putin s Russia-Africa summit due to be held in late July in St Petersburg. The summit, postponed from last year due to Russia s war in Ukraine, will be a form of loyalty test for African leaders to Moscow.