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Tunisia

Kaïs Saïed

Date of Birth: 22 February 1958
Place of Birth: Tunis


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Fear and loathing off and on the campaign trail

With the most credible opposition figures in detention or boycotting the presidential election on 6 October Kaïs Saïed's victory was pre-ordained and pointless at the same time...

Those who would have voted differently simply stayed away only the brave 10% voted for other candidates (Dispatches 8/10/24 Kaïs Saïed gets his landslide but millions ignore the vote)...


Gas or hot air?

In Tunisia meanwhile President Kaïs Saïed's government has signed two memoranda of understanding involving France's oil and gas major TotalEnergies renewable energy company Eren Groupe Austria's Verbund and Saudi Arabia's ACWA aimed at producing a combined 800 000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year for export to Europe...


After arresting his rivals, Saïed will run for another presidential term

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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Migrant control moves to North Africa

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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Premier Meloni woos President Saïed

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...


Fearing a regional meltdown, Brussels pays Egypt $7.4 billion

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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Saïed demands central bank loans to plug deficit

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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