{"id":218526,"date":"2025-12-30T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-of-republic-slams-air-transport-failures-vows-to-rebuild-public-services\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:58:11","slug":"tunisia-president-of-republic-slams-air-transport-failures-vows-to-rebuild-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-of-republic-slams-air-transport-failures-vows-to-rebuild-public-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President of Republic Slams Air Transport Failures, Vows to Rebuild Public Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Tunis, Dec. 30 \u2014 President Kais Saied stated at the outset of his meeting Monday at Carthage Palace with Minister of Transport, Rachid Amri, that the current state of air transport is &#8220;absolutely unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He pointed out that in one country, aircraft departures have recently been delayed by as much as five days. Such delays, whether occurring at Tunisian airports or abroad, are unacceptable by any standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;An immediate end must be put to these shortcomings, and full responsibility must be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300124.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, Dec. 30 \u2014 President Kais Saied stated at the outset of his meeting Monday at Carthage Palace with Minister of Transport, Rachid Amri, that the current state of air transport is &#8220;absolutely unacceptable.&#8221; He pointed out that in one country, aircraft departures have recently been delayed by as much as five days. Such delays, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218527,"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":[258,256,7832,23961,257,2450,5751,7090,5935,7155,9757,254,8343,4703,653,9639],"class_list":["post-218526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-failures","tag-news","tag-president","tag-public","tag-rebuild","tag-republic","tag-services","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transport","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-vows"],"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\/218526","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=218526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}