{"id":33186,"date":"2026-04-28T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33186"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:08:37","slug":"tunisia-president-sacks-energy-minister-ahead-of-renewable-energy-projects-vote","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tunisia-president-sacks-energy-minister-ahead-of-renewable-energy-projects-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia President sacks Energy Minister ahead of renewable energy projects vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Tunisia\u2019s President Kais Saied dismissed Energy Minister Fatma Thabet <span dir=\"ltr\">this Tuesday<\/span>, amid growing controversy over renewable \u200cenergy projects set to be voted on in parliament.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Saied said he had appointed \u200bHousing and Infrastructure Minister Salah \u200bEddine Zouari to temporarily oversee the \u2060Ministry.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0No detailed explanation was \u200bprovided for the decision.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The move comes \u200bas Saied&#8217;s government seeks to pass draft laws on renewable energy, which will be \u200bput to a vote in \u200bparliament later on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16130,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-33186","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":" No detailed explanation was \u200bprovided for the decision.","published_date":"","news_description":" No detailed explanation was \u200bprovided for the decision.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33187,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33186\/revisions\/33187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}