Tunisia: The political map being recomposed |Arabnews en

2022-09-09 20:12:12 By : Mr. karl zhang

https://arab.news/p36acTunis: While his opponents are getting tougher and tougher on him, most Kaïs Saïed supporters have distanced themselves somewhat from it and even dare to criticize him, while continuing to proclaim their support for the coup of July 25, 2021.In office for almost three years (he acceded to the supreme magistracy on October 23, 2019), Kaïs Saïed, the sixth Tunisian president, acts on Tunisian political life like a ball in a game of bowling.An atypical president, he forced, through his populist theses and his muscular methods, the Tunisians to (re)position themselves in relation to him.Two camps have appeared in the political landscape since Kaïs Saïed entered the scene and especially after the coup of July 25, 2021, by means of which the Tunisian head of state removed the Ennahdha movement and its allies from power: on one side, the irreducible opponents and enemies of the "messiah" of the "New Republic", and, on the other, his supporters.In addition to a multitude of other formations and individuals, the first group is made up of two coalitions: the National Salvation Front, made up of the Islamist party Ennahdha and its allies, and chaired by the lawyer Ahmed Néjib Chebbi and a group opposed to both Kaïs Saïed and Ennahdha.While the camp of the opponents is quite well delimited, that of the pro-Saïed parties is more difficult to define, because a good part of them are, unlike the opposition parties, of recent creation.There are also many figures from civil society and favorable intellectuals.Among the most important formations is the Harak of July 25, 2021. It is the only one to claim to be present in the twenty-four governorates of the country and it seems connected to Kaïs Saïed while the latter regularly claims not to have a party.Indeed, the Harak of July 25, 2021 claims loud and clear that it has the president's ear and has more than once publicly thanked him for having appointed some of his executives to positions of responsibility – as governor, for example.This movement caused a real outcry – but no reaction from the authorities – by announcing on September 3, the creation of “vigilance committees”, immediately assimilated by a good number of Tunisians to militias such as Tunisia knew in particular after the 14 January 2011.Compact a year ago, the pro-Saïed block gradually cracked.Very few parties and personalities remain fanatically loyal to the president.Most put a lot of water in their wine.While continuing to declare themselves in favor of the July 25, 2021 process, they have distanced themselves from the Head of State and they even dare to criticize him.This is particularly the case of the People's Movement, whose secretary general, Zouhair Maghzaoui, like other supporters of Kaïs Saïed, particularly criticizes his propensity to go it alone and to impose his will on others without debate.RIYADH: The efforts of Saudi Arabia's King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Center (KSRelief) to assist the international community continue with aid and relief activities in recipient countries.In Marib Governorate in Yemen, KSRelief distributed more than 96 tons of food baskets for families.These baskets could benefit 5,400 people as part of the centre's food security program to support the conflict-affected country this year.KSRelief aims to distribute over 192,000 food baskets weighing over 20,000 tonnes to needy and conflict-affected families in 15 Yemeni governorates.In Indonesia, KSRelief launched the second and third volunteer programs for over 300 low-income people.These people will be trained in vocational and practical skills, including sewing and embroidery, cell phone maintenance, first aid and rescue, road traffic injury and disaster management.In Tanzania, KSRelief's ongoing heart and catheterization surgeries project deployed a team of volunteer doctors who examined 173 people and successfully performed 21 open-heart surgeries and 30 catheterization surgeries.Most of the patients came from low-income families who couldn't afford the expensive medical procedures.Separately, Foreign Minister Olivia Rwamba accompanied a delegation of Burkinabe officials on a visit to KSRelief's headquarters in Riyadh to take stock of the center's humanitarian and relief efforts.This text is the translation of an article published on Arabnews.comhttps://arab.news/4f37gDAMASCUS: The Syrian airport of Aleppo, damaged by Israeli strikes this week, reopened on Friday, we learned from an official source.According to the Ministry of Transport, quoted by the official Syrian news agency Sana, the repair work has been completed and air traffic should resume at midday (09:00 GMT).Around 11:00 GMT (2 p.m. local time), no plane had yet taken off, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).On Tuesday evening, Israeli strikes, according to Sana, disabled the runway of this airport, the second in the country, already hit on August 31.The OSDH had indicated that the strikes also targeted a warehouse within the airport used by militias affiliated with Iran and reported three deaths.In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, targeting regime positions as well as Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces, key allies of Damascus and sworn enemies of Israel.Israel, a neighboring country of Syria, has admitted to having carried out hundreds of strikes since the start of the war in 2011, but rarely comments on them on a case-by-case basis.The Israeli army has defended them as necessary and says it wants to prevent Iran from establishing itself on its doorstep.Triggered by the repression of pro-democracy demonstrations, the war in Syria has claimed around 500,000 lives, devastated the country's infrastructure and displaced millions of people.https://arab.news/p33vfAL-MOUKALLA: Security authorities on the remote island of Socotra in Yemen have foiled an attempt to smuggle seeds of endangered plant species.The move has been welcomed by local conservationists, who have long fought to preserve the island's ecological diversity.Three people have been arrested in connection with the smuggling of at least three kilograms of seeds from twelve rare plant species hidden inside a boat sailing to Al-Moukalla, the capital of Hadramout province, in southeast Yemen, a local source told Arab News.According to locals, the seizure happened randomly, as security forces tried to find gold that had been stolen from a house on the island.The incident prompted Yemen's Minister of Water and Environment, Tawfid al-Sharjabi, to issue a decree requiring the Environmental Protection Authority and its offices on the island to remain present in its offices. sea ​​and air ports and work with security officials to thwart any further attempts to smuggle rare plants.Environmentalists have welcomed the seizure and called for stricter security measures along the island's exit points to halt the smuggling.After personally inspecting the seized cargo, Ahmed Said Souleiman, an environmentalist and former head of the Environmental Protection Authority's office in Socotra, told Arab News that it contained seeds from twelve cultivated trees native to the region. 'island: Adenium obesum, Commiphora ornifolia, Commiphora socotrana, Commiphora sp, Dorstenia gigas, Sterculia africana var.socotrana, Boswellia ameero, Boswellia elongata, Boswellia socotrana, Boswellia nana, Boswellia dioscorides and Dendrosicyos socotrana.