{"id":246452,"date":"2026-10-06T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-capacity-substitution-how-tunisias-problems-became-someone-elses-priorities\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:00:28","slug":"tunisia-capacity-substitution-how-tunisias-problems-became-someone-elses-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-capacity-substitution-how-tunisias-problems-became-someone-elses-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Capacity Substitution &#8211; How Tunisia&#8217;s Problems Became Someone Else&#8217;s Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">In the summer of 2023, a young man from Gafsa tried to cross the Mediterranean on a small boat. He did not make it. His story is one of thousands &#8212; and it is increasingly understood by Tunisian institutions through the language of border management. It is also a story about who defines what a problem is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">In June 2023, the European Commission announced a package for Tunisia: up to <a href=\"https:\/\/enlargement.ec.europa.eu\/news\/press-statement-president-von-der-leyen-italian-prime-minister-meloni-dutch-prime-minister-rutte-and-2023-06-11_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac900 million in proposed macro-financial assistance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/eu-considering-major-tunisia-aid-package-migration-surges-2023-06-11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac150 million in budget support<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/enlargement.ec.europa.eu\/news\/press-statement-president-von-der-leyen-italian-prime-minister-meloni-dutch-prime-minister-rutte-and-2023-06-11_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac100 million for border&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610050050.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>In the summer of 2023, a young man from Gafsa tried to cross the Mediterranean on a small boat. He did not make it. His story is one of thousands &#8212; and it is increasingly understood by Tunisian institutions through the language of border management. It is also a story about who defines what a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":246453,"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":[258,256,6796,16223,257,12200,8260,254,33544,4703,653,6684],"class_list":["post-246452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capacity","tag-elses","tag-news","tag-priorities","tag-problems","tag-south-africa-today","tag-substitution","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"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\/246452","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=246452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}