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Elizia Volkmann is a British freelance journalist based in Tunis for the past five years covering Tunisian politics, social and economic issues as well as the wider Maghreb and Euro-med region. She has covered Tunisian politics extensively reporting on the 2019 elections and analyzing online influence and disinformation around the political campaigns and news within the region.
Her articles have appeared in The Times, The BBC, Al Jazeera English, and Al Monitor. She has made several appearances on air on TV for Al Jazeera, DW, and Euronews as well as radio for Monocle. She is also an active advocate for press freedom and the right to free speech and human rights. She has presented at conferences such as Rightscon, the annual conference on digital human rights. She is also involved in animal rescue and animal charities.
Tunisia’s food shortages shine a spotlight on its core economic failings
President Kais Saied’s war on speculation is attempting to direct the focus of people’s anger about food shortages onto speculators. A recent emergency importation of grain has stayed off the emptying of shelves, but as the country’s treasury empties and eventually products begin to disappear from stores again, the people’s patience and faith in his new political project will wear very thin. For now, he is profiting from national exhaustion, but how long till hunger becomes anger and anger becomes a movement?
President Saied’s campaign of arrests raises troubling questions about Tunisia’s trajectory
Tunisian President Kais Saied’s campaign of arrests evolves from high-profile house arrests of leading figures to convictions of ordinary people on defamation charges.
