{"id":224427,"date":"2026-02-20T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-of-republic-extends-ramadan-greetings-to-tunisian-people-from-zitouna-mosque-update-1\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:18:08","slug":"tunisia-president-of-republic-extends-ramadan-greetings-to-tunisian-people-from-zitouna-mosque-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-of-republic-extends-ramadan-greetings-to-tunisian-people-from-zitouna-mosque-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President of Republic Extends Ramadan Greetings to Tunisian People From Zitouna Mosque [update 1]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Tunis \u2014 President Kais Saied headed on Wednesday evening to the historic Zitouna Mosque, from where he extended his congratulations to the Tunisian people and the Islamic nation on the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">In his address, according to a video released by the Presidency of the Republic, the Head of State outlined the objectives of fasting, saying: &#8220;Fasting is not merely abstaining for a limited time from what God has forbidden; its purposes are the purification and refinement of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602190405.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 headed on Wednesday evening to the historic Zitouna Mosque, from where he extended his congratulations to the Tunisian people and the Islamic nation on the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan. In his address, according to a video released by the Presidency of the Republic, the Head of State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224428,"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":[258,256,6875,2527,257,6321,2450,1907,5935,254,4703,653,6932,6320,53706],"class_list":["post-224427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-extends","tag-mosque","tag-news","tag-people","tag-president","tag-ramadan","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian","tag-update","tag-zitouna"],"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\/224427","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=224427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}