{"id":236699,"date":"2026-06-18T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-kairouan-president-kais-saied-inspects-aghlabid-basins-newly-restored-medina-walls-update-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:09:57","slug":"tunisia-kairouan-president-kais-saied-inspects-aghlabid-basins-newly-restored-medina-walls-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-kairouan-president-kais-saied-inspects-aghlabid-basins-newly-restored-medina-walls-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Kairouan &#8211; President Kais Saied Inspects Aghlabid Basins &#038; Newly Restored Medina Walls [update 2]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Kairouan \u2014 President Kais Saied paid a visit to Kairouan governorate on Tuesday evening, coinciding with the celebration of the Hijri New Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">During the visit, he toured the Aghlabid Basins to inspect the progress of restoration works at the historic site and its immediate surroundings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He also reviewed the newly restored walls of the Medina following the completion of rehabilitation works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The visit fits into the President of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170104.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>Kairouan \u2014 President Kais Saied paid a visit to Kairouan governorate on Tuesday evening, coinciding with the celebration of the Hijri New Year. During the visit, he toured the Aghlabid Basins to inspect the progress of restoration works at the historic site and its immediate surroundings. He also reviewed the newly restored walls of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236700,"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":[258,256,49862,37904,10790,28702,30747,45402,14369,257,2450,7738,30748,254,4703,653,6320,9759],"class_list":["post-236699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aghlabid","tag-basins","tag-inspects","tag-kairouan","tag-kais","tag-medina","tag-newly","tag-news","tag-president","tag-restored","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-update","tag-walls"],"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\/236699","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=236699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}