Tunisia’s President, Beji Caid Essebsi, has been taken to a military hospital after suffering a “severe health crisis”, the Presidency said on Thursday.
Naijaparry learned that the 92-year-old Tunisian leader “was taken seriously ill and transferred to the military hospital in Tunis”.
A major player since the country’s transition to democracy in 2011, Essebsi was hospitalised last week as well, over what the presidency described as non-serious treatment.
He has been a prominent figure in the Maghreb nation since the overthrow of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Essebsi, before before 2011, served as foreign minister under state founder Habib Bourguiba and parliamentary speaker under Ben Ali.
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