{"id":222343,"date":"2026-01-30T23:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-flood-damage-president-saied-in-bhar-lazreg-sidi-bou-said-says-need-to-address-root-causes-to-avoid-repeat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:32:12","slug":"tunisia-flood-damage-president-saied-in-bhar-lazreg-sidi-bou-said-says-need-to-address-root-causes-to-avoid-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-flood-damage-president-saied-in-bhar-lazreg-sidi-bou-said-says-need-to-address-root-causes-to-avoid-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Flood Damage &#8211; President Sa\u00efed in Bhar Lazreg, Sidi Bou Said Says Need to Address Root Causes to Avoid Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Tunis, Jan. 29 \u2014 President of the Republic Ka\u00efs Sa\u00efed visited on Wednesdat afternoon the area of Bhar Lazreg, La Marsa (northern suburbs) so as to take stock of the damage caused by recent floods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">There is need to support civil protection teams, the Head of State said, which have spared no effort over the past days carrying out pumping operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The root causes of such a state of affairs must be addressed to avoid its repeat in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290231.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, Jan. 29 \u2014 President of the Republic Ka\u00efs Sa\u00efed visited on Wednesdat afternoon the area of Bhar Lazreg, La Marsa (northern suburbs) so as to take stock of the damage caused by recent floods. There is need to support civil protection teams, the Head of State said, which have spared no effort over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222344,"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":[7325,258,256,8728,53529,19716,14206,8785,53530,257,2450,13820,13043,30748,21278,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-222343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-avoid","tag-bhar","tag-bou","tag-damage","tag-flood","tag-lazreg","tag-news","tag-president","tag-repeat","tag-root","tag-saied","tag-sidi","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\/222343","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=222343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}