Tunisia: Head of State Mandates Comprehensive Agricultural Land Audit

Tunis — President Kais Saied met on Monday at the Carthage Palace Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Ezzeddine Ben Cheikh. The meeting marked the 61st anniversary of Law No. 5, dated May 12, 1964, concerning the ownership of agricultural land in Tunisia.

At the outset of the meeting, the President of the Republic highlighted the symbolic significance of this date and the law’s role in restricting agricultural land ownership exclusively to Tunisian nationals, according to a…