JOURNEY TO SAHEL OF TUNISIA

Sahel e Sousse | 30 October 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Sahel (Arabic: الساحل, al-Sahel, "the coast") is a coastal region of Tunisia south of the Gulf of Hammamet. The southern borders are quite uncertain, and if for some they reach the gulf of Gabes, others consider it to be part of the coastal strip as far as Mahdia.
The main cities of the Sahel are Sousse (the most populous), Monastir (first Arab city founded in Ifriqiya) and Mahdia (ancient capital of Tunisia at the time of the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi).
The president Michele Capasso, accompanied by Anis Boufrika, visited these magnificent places welcomed as in a real family by Rabaa and by the daughters Hiba and Mariem.

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VISIT TO THE TUNIS CASBAH

Tunis | 30 October 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Accompanied by his fraternal friend Anis Boufrika, President Capasso visited the medina and the casbah of Tunis, interviewing craftsmen heirs of ancient crafts, such as the making of “chechia”, the ancient typical Tunisian headdress.

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TERRORIST ATTACK AT THE AVENUE BOURGUIBA: THE KAMIZAZE IS OF MAHDIA

Tunis | 29 October 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The author of the attack with an explosive belt on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, in the early afternoon of Monday 29 October 2018, is called Mona Kebla. The terrorist born in 1988, comes from Mahdia, former capital of the kingdom of Tunisia (the Husseinites) to 60 km. from Sousse.
The attack, which resulted in 20 wounded, including 15 members of the security forces, in the center of Tunis, has not yet received any claims. The "Daechist" responsibility is not excluded, according to the newspaper "La Presse de Tunisie".
The attack is the first committed by a woman in Tunisia: a 29-year-old unemployed, Mouna Kabia, a graduate in Business English and from the region of Mahdia (southeast of Tunis). According to Tunisian media, he had never found a job in this area, but sometimes worked as a sheep-keeper to help his family. In recent days, she was seen in Tunis begging and screaming in the street.
Previously, the young woman "had never had any suspicious behavior or attitude, everyone can testify," said one of his relatives, interviewed by the Al-Ghad channel (quoted by webdo).
He unleashed his anger and triggered the lacintura "near the police cars", according to the Ministry of the Interior. "It was allegedly recruited by terrorist elements via the Internet," the source said. It was not considered "extremist" by security forces. For the Minister of the Interior, Hichem Fourati, it is an isolated act.
"It's a tragedy," said Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi from Berlin, where he was on an official visit. "We thought we had eradicated terrorism but I fear that it is he who is exterminating us," he said, according to statements quoted by the Tunisian press.
A declaration sent to Geopolis, the president of the Islamist party Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, "condemns this particularly cowardly terrorist attack". "It invites Tunisian citizens to defend and strengthen national unity".
The president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso, present in Tunis and very close to the Avenue Bourguiba at the time of the attack, sent a message of solidarity and fraternity to President Béji Caïd Essebsi.

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CRAXI: MY FREEDOM IS EQUIVALENT TO MY LIFE

Hammamet | 29 October 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso with the leader of the ALF Tunisian network Anis Boufrika paid tribute to the tomb of Bettino Craxi, a statesman and supporter of dialogue with the Arab world.
On his grave is written: "My freedom is equivalent to my life".

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