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Tunisia’s president recently hosted his counterpart from Guinea-Bissau, Cissoko Emballo, who is also the current chairman of Ecowas. Emballo’s visit to Tunis comes at a time when Tunis is reporting racist attacks targeting sub-Saharan migrants in the north African nation
Tunisia’s president recently hosted his counterpart from Guinea-Bissau, Cissoko Emballo, who is also the current chairman of Ecowas. Emballo’s visit to Tunis comes at a time when Tunis is reporting racist attacks targeting sub-Saharan migrants in the north African nation. Last month, Tunisian President Kaies Saied linked undocumented immigrants to violence and crimes in his country that had generated a lot of heart-burning among fellow Africans, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
President Kaies, however, denied racism insisting on his will to uphold the law. He called fellow Africans as brothers, even if they did not have Tunisian nationality. Rights groups have reported a spike in vigilante violence including stabbings of black Africans. Following violent attacks on foreign students in parts of Tunisia, migrants, mostly students from countries like Guinea, Mali, and Ivory Coast, etc fled the country. Tunisia also says that there are many illegal migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in the country, who are mostly perpetrating violence and public outcries in the northern African country.
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In his meeting with the visiting ECOWAS president Cissoko Emballo, Kaies said that he was proud to be an African, alluding to the fact that his speech was misinterpreted to give credence that it had xenophobic or racist undertones. Tunisia’s Foreign Ministry also came clear about its position towards fellow Africans and said that Tunisia abhors racism and xenophobia.
