Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North
Africa, covering 163,610 square kilometres.
The Tunisian presidency on Friday announced a six-month
extension of the country’s state of emergency, in place since a
2015 attack on a presidential guard bus claimed by the Islamic
State group.
President Kais Saied “decided on the six-month extension of the
nationwide state of emergency, from December 26, 2020, to June 23,
2021,” a statement said.
The measure, extended continuously since late 2015, grants
exceptional powers to the country’s security forces.
It allows measures to “ensure the control of the press” and for
strikes and meetings that “create disorder” to be banned.
Tunisia has seen political and social instability in recent
weeks, along with protests in several regions.
The country faced a rise in jihadist activity after its 2011
revolution, with attacks killing dozens of security personnel,
civilians and foreign tourists.
The 2015 attack in the capital Tunis killed 12 presidential
guards and came after two other deadly attacks claimed by IS that
year: one at the capital’s Bardo museum and another at the coastal
resort of Sousse.
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On Thursday, a man of “extremist appearance” attempted to attack
a police officer with a knife in the capital Tunis while yelling
“Allahu akbar” (God is greatest in Arabic), the interior ministry
said in a statement.
Last Sunday, officials said the decapitated body of a
20-year-old man had been found in the country’s central Kasserine
region in a probable “terrorist” attack.
The mountainous central region is also a hideout for the
Tunisian branch of jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM), known as Okba Ibn Nafaa.
As well as the state of emergency, a night-time curfew is in
place in Tunisia to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which
has infected more than 126,000 people and killed over 4,300 in the
country, according to health ministry figures.
AFP
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Two thousand Nigerians and foreign nationals have been rescued
from kidnappers in Zamfara State, Governor Bello Matawalle has
said.
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The governor said they were rescued in the past 19 months under
his watch, adding that the feat was made possible by using former
bandits as negotiators.
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Matawalle gave the information when he hosted the National
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Uche Secondus who
was in Abuja to condole him on the loss of eight members of the
emir’s entourage.
According to him, no ransom was paid in the rescuing of
kidnapped victims in the state, adding that logic and dialogue had
always been deployed.
The governor stated that President Muhammadu Buhari was
adequately briefed on every security measures undertaken to secure
lives and properties.
Matawalle said his resolve to operate an open door policy was to
offer support to security agencies in the state.
He said: “We have recovered a lot of dangerous weapons which was
given to the security agencies of Nigeria and we have rescued about
2,000 kidnapped victims including some foreign nationals.
“These include people from China, Korea, Niger republic, Burkina
Faso and even Central Africa who were kidnapped and taken to
Zamfara state.
“All we are concerned with is to see our people go to sleep with
their eyes closed and that is the responsibility of every
government to provide security for the lives and properties of
which we are doing.”
Matawalle urged all state governors to put aside political
differences and put a united front to rid the country of all
criminal elements and activities, especially banditry.
Secondus, who warned that in the absence of law and order there
would be anarchy, said “security and hunger knows no party.”
He described as an “uncommon feat” the rescue of the over 300
students of the Government Science Secondary School, abducted from
Kankara, Katsina State.