Tunisian students are being stopped from leaving an airport in the Ivory Coast, a video circulating online appears to show, raising fears that the Tunisian community may be subjected to assaults and violence across Africa following President Kais\u00a0Saied’s speech .<\/p>\n
Media outlets and social media platforms circulated a video of Tunisians\u00a0making a “distress call” after they were prohibited from leaving Abidjan airport days after\u00a0Saied’s\u00a0speech\u00a0in which he spoke of a conspiracy to settle African immigrants in Tunisia and change the country’s demographics.<\/p>\n
A number of activists said they held the\u00a0Tunisian authorities responsible for what is happening to Tunisians in a number\u00a0of African countries, while others demanded diplomatic\u00a0efforts be taken to protect citizens\u00a0abroad and to defuse the tension caused by Saied’s speech.<\/p>\n
Ivory Coast, along with Mali, began evacuating their nationals from Tunisia,\u00a0with two planes carrying about 300 nationals from the two countries took off on Saturday after many reported being assaulted following\u00a0the president’s speech.<\/p>\n
There have been calls for the suspension of Tunisia’s membership of the African\u00a0Union as a result of the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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