{"id":222718,"date":"2026-02-03T23:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-tackles-infrastructure-and-housing-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:40:45","slug":"tunisia-president-tackles-infrastructure-and-housing-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-tackles-infrastructure-and-housing-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President Tackles Infrastructure and Housing Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Tunis \u2014 President Kais Saied met on Monday afternoon, at Carthage Palace, with Prime Minister Sarra Za\u00e2frani Zenzri and Minister of Equipment and Housing Salah Zouari.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Head of State stressed the urgency of addressing Tunisia&#8217;s &#8220;heavy legacy,&#8221; particularly in the areas of infrastructure and housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He sharply criticized the country&#8217;s poor infrastructure in several residential neighborhoods, citing the lack of maintenance of sewerage networks and stormwater drainage systems, which has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030235.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 \u2014 President Kais Saied met on Monday afternoon, at Carthage Palace, with Prime Minister Sarra Za\u00e2frani Zenzri and Minister of Equipment and Housing Salah Zouari. The Head of State stressed the urgency of addressing Tunisia&#8217;s &#8220;heavy legacy,&#8221; particularly in the areas of infrastructure and housing. He sharply criticized the country&#8217;s poor infrastructure in several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222719,"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":[258,256,8522,9864,8008,257,2450,254,14967,4703,653],"class_list":["post-222718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-housing","tag-infrastructure","tag-issues","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackles","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\/222718","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=222718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}