{"id":4600,"date":"2014-07-31T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2014-07-31T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:29:40","slug":"tunisia-cant-cope-with-massive-libya-refugee-influx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-cant-cope-with-massive-libya-refugee-influx\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia can\u2019t cope with massive Libya refugee influx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis &#8211; Tunisia cannot cope with any massive influx of refugees who might seek to enter the country from strife torn neighbouring Libya and will close its border if necessary, the foreign minister said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur country\u2019s economic situation is precarious, and we cannot cope with hundreds of thousands of refugees,\u201d as was the case during the 2011 revolution that ousted Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, Mongi Hamdi told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will close the border if the national interest requires it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has suffered from chronic insecurity since Kadhafi\u2019s ouster, with the new government unable to rein in the militias that helped to overthrow him and facing a growing threat from Islamist groups&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tunisia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2014\/07\/tunisia-cant-cope-with-massive-libya-refugee-influx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis &#8211; Tunisia cannot cope with any massive influx of refugees who might seek to enter the country from strife torn neighbouring Libya and will close its border if necessary, the foreign minister said Wednesday. \u201cOur country\u2019s economic situation is precarious, and we cannot cope with hundreds of thousands of refugees,\u201d as was the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,357,3334,3333,2623,257,4694,1219,254,643,4703,653],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-groups","tag-massive-influx-of-refugees","tag-moamer-kadhafi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunis","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/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=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}