{"id":240878,"date":"2026-08-11T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-saied-in-gabes-decries-ravages-of-pollution-says-only-upgraded-units-will-be-put-into-operation-update1\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:13:59","slug":"tunisia-saied-in-gabes-decries-ravages-of-pollution-says-only-upgraded-units-will-be-put-into-operation-update1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-saied-in-gabes-decries-ravages-of-pollution-says-only-upgraded-units-will-be-put-into-operation-update1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Saied in Gab\u00e9s Decries Ravages of Pollution, Says Only Upgraded Units Will Be Put Into Operation [update1]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Tunis \u2014 In a field visit on Monday evening to the governorate of Gab\u00e9s, President of the Republic Kais Saied condemned the devastation caused by pollution and decried what he called &#8220;political pollution&#8221; in a clear connection between environment degradation and corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Environment has become a &#8220;national cause,&#8221; the Head of State said in Shatt al-Salam. The people of Gab\u00e8s paid an &#8220;exorbitant price&#8221; as a result of the activities of the Tunisian Chemical Group (GCT). Certain circles, he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 In a field visit on Monday evening to the governorate of Gab\u00e9s, President of the Republic Kais Saied condemned the devastation caused by pollution and decried what he called &#8220;political pollution&#8221; in a clear connection between environment degradation and corruption. Environment has become a &#8220;national cause,&#8221; the Head of State said in Shatt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,10717,20646,257,8556,10362,7786,16471,30748,254,4703,653,20330,52113,10764],"class_list":["post-240878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decries","tag-gabes","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-pollution","tag-put","tag-ravages","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-units","tag-update1","tag-upgraded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240878","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=240878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}