{"id":199514,"date":"2025-06-04T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-of-republic-meets-defence-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:13:58","slug":"tunisia-president-of-republic-meets-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-of-republic-meets-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President of Republic Meets Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Tunis, June 3 \u2014 President Kais Saied met with Minister of National Defence, Khaled Shili, at Carthage Palace Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to a statement from the Presidency, the meeting addressed bolstering the military&#8217;s capabilities, particularly in national defence and reinforcing its support for state efforts across all sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">This includes securing public facilities when necessary, ensuring a successful agricultural season, providing grain storage infrastructure, combating pandemics, and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506040298.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, June 3 \u2014 President Kais Saied met with Minister of National Defence, Khaled Shili, at Carthage Palace Monday. According to a statement from the Presidency, the meeting addressed bolstering the military&#8217;s capabilities, particularly in national defence and reinforcing its support for state efforts across all sectors. This includes securing public facilities when necessary, ensuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199515,"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":[258,256,6874,6271,5941,257,2450,5935,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-199514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defence","tag-meets","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-president","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/199514","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=199514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}