The US is planning to sell Tunisia a dozen advanced attack helicopters as it seeks to help the North African country confront a mounting threat from armed groups.
Moncef Marzouki , the Tunisian president, who is in Washington DC for a summit between US and African leaders, has described the purchase “a matter of urgency”.
“We asked the United States to give us about 12 Black Hawks,” he said during a speech on Tuesday at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.
“We badly need them now … we didn’t expect that Tunisia would become a country where we would have these terrorist attacks like in Syria…
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