Saïed summons ministers and utility chiefs over the water and power cuts

At a Carthage Palace meeting on 22 July with the ministers of interior, equipment and energy, and agriculture, the heads of Steg and Sonede and the director general of civil protection, President Kaïs Saïed called the outages and fires "abnormal phenomena" and declared interruptions of more than 24 hours unacceptable. He ordered immediate measures and demanded that citizens be told in advance whenever a cut is unavoidable, said the state would not "stand idle" against those seeking to harm citizens and stoke tension, and asserted that Tunisians would resist "any attempt at destabilisation, whatever its source". Framing the outages as sabotage rather than as the product of under-investment sets the terms for who will be held to account.

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