It looks like North Africans are also facing this existential threat from sub-Saharan Africa.

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She added that black Tunisians, who make up around 10-15% of the country's population, suffer discrimination because of the colour of their skin.

Blacks are already 10-15% of Tunisia's population?! I wonder when that happened. Is that a recent development?

The problem of sub-Saharan Africans who travel to North Africa hoping to make it across the Mediterranean into Europe is not new. It has long been a bone of contention between North African states and Europe.

Ideally we would cooperate with North Africa to keep the new Black Death south of the Sahara. The problem of course is that North Africa will demand concessions.

That is why floating the idea that Tunisia is facing an existential threat from sub-Saharan migrants appears to be a convenient distraction.

It's not a distraction. It's a fact. Anyone who's looked at the numbers knows this.

And like Tunisia, Egypt too has seen a rise in the anti-black rhetoric voiced by ultra-nationalists, who see the presence of black African migrants in Egypt as a threat.

Hoteps BTFO.

The same people recently campaigned against a scheduled performance in Egypt by American stand-up comedian Kevin Hart because of the artist's support for Afro-centrism - the belief, among other things, that ancient Egypt was a black civilisation.

Lmao! The memes are writing themselves at this point.

That of course infuriated many Egyptians, the vast majority of whom, like many Tunisians, try to differentiate themselves from sub-Saharan Africa.

I guess they didn't get the memo that race is just a social construct.

The performance was seen as part of a wider conspiracy to dispossess the Egyptians of their own culture and land, while also invoking the Palestinian situation, in ways reminiscent of the Tunisian Nationalist Party.

You've got to give the Arabs credit. They can smell a Jewish plot from a mile away.

In response to the international outcry, Mr Saied has made some conciliatory remarks in the past few days, emphasising that Tunisia was an African country and that he has relatives married to black Africans.

Is this guy the Tunisian Trump? Lol!

Article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64913796