{"id":227471,"date":"2026-03-20T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisian-independence-between-political-negotiations-and-armed-resistance\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:21:58","slug":"tunisian-independence-between-political-negotiations-and-armed-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisian-independence-between-political-negotiations-and-armed-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian Independence &#8211; Between Political Negotiations and Armed Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Tunis \u2014 March 20, 1956 was not an ordinary date, but a decisive milestone in Tunisia&#8217;s contemporary history. On that day, after 75 years of French colonial domination, Tunisia broke with a past of subjugation, following the signing in Paris of the independence protocol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">France then officially recognised Tunisia&#8217;s full sovereignty over its entire territory, occupied since May 12, 1881, the date of the signing of the Treaty of Bardo establishing the protectorate regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The celebration of the 70th&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200037.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 March 20, 1956 was not an ordinary date, but a decisive milestone in Tunisia&#8217;s contemporary history. On that day, after 75 years of French colonial domination, Tunisia broke with a past of subjugation, following the signing in Paris of the independence protocol. France then officially recognised Tunisia&#8217;s full sovereignty over its entire territory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227472,"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":[258,256,9663,7690,3762,257,6378,7940,254,653,6932],"class_list":["post-227471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-independence","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-political","tag-resistance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian"],"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\/227471","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=227471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}