Tunisia: “Kaïs Saïed promotes state xenophobia”


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DECRYPTION. Researcher Hamza Meddeb talks about the profound changes underway in Tunisia since President Saïed took over all powers.





Interview by Benoit Delmas

In an apparent concern for appeasement, President Saïed affirmed during an interview on Wednesday with the President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who was stopping over in Tunis, that the Africans present in Tunisia were “brothers”, according to a video released by the Tunisian presidency.
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In February 21, the Tunisian head of state, Kaïs Saïed, affirmed that the presence of “hordes” of illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa was a source of “violence and crimes” and was part of a “criminal enterprise aimed at “changing the demographic composition” of the country. After this speech, condemned by NGOs, pan-African and international institutions, nationals of sub-Saharan Africa reported an upsurge in attacks against them and rushed by the dozens to their embassies to be repatriated. Countries, such as Mali, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, have chartered planes to repatriate their nationals.

In an apparent concern for appeasement, the president then affirmed during an interview with the president of Gu…




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