{"id":197530,"date":"2025-05-06T17:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-meets-iom-director-general-reaffirms-tunisias-firm-stance-on-irregular-migration\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:33:17","slug":"tunisia-president-kais-saied-meets-iom-director-general-reaffirms-tunisias-firm-stance-on-irregular-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-meets-iom-director-general-reaffirms-tunisias-firm-stance-on-irregular-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President Kais Saied Meets IOM Director-General, Reaffirms Tunisia&#8217;s Firm Stance On Irregular Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Tunis, May 6 \u2014 President Kais Saied met Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Ms. Amy Pope, on Monday afternoon at the Carthage Palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">At the outset of the meeting, the Head of State reiterated Tunisia&#8217;s unwavering position in refusing to serve as a transit point or host country for irregular migrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">He was quoted in a Presidency statement as stressing that this phenomenon is not innocent but is driven by criminal networks engaged in human trafficking and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505060108.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, May 6 \u2014 President Kais Saied met Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Ms. Amy Pope, on Monday afternoon at the Carthage Palace. At the outset of the meeting, the Head of State reiterated Tunisia&#8217;s unwavering position in refusing to serve as a transit point or host country for irregular migrants. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6124,7559,4090,19379,30747,6271,6486,257,2450,8132,30748,254,8177,4703,653,6684],"class_list":["post-197530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-directorgeneral","tag-firm","tag-iom","tag-irregular","tag-kais","tag-meets","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-president","tag-reaffirms","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stance","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}