The racism in Tunisia never ceases to amaze me. A little thread on another layer of hell for Black folks in the country that I got to see up close and personal over the last few days. 1/ 🧵 A friend of mine, who is Ivorian, called me on Sunday. She’s not been feeling well for ages, and I’d been begging her to see a doc. She’d gotten dizzy and collapsed. 2/

You've likely heard that hundreds of Black migrants in Tunisia have been arrested in recent weeks. What happens after that? Let me share my own experience here... 1/ Two weeks ago, my dear friend A*, who is from Ivory Coast, was picked up by police while she was out & about in Ariana. She called me in a rush from the police station to say she would be unreachable for a bit. This was before Saied's speech. I thought it'd be catch & release 2/

Another journalist called me this afternoon to ask if my 5-month-old had any clothes she’d outgrown because there was a woman with 3-month-old baby sleeping rough outside the @UNmigration in Tunis after being kicked out of her apartment. 1/ I gathered up some warm things and headed down there. When I arrived I asked after the woman with a baby, and met *another* woman with a 14-month-old baby who was 8 months pregnant with her second. Her sister had the 3-month-old. 2/

Kais Saied's 30-day exceptional period ends tomorrow, but the President has given few hints about what is ahead for #Tunisia. A referendum on a new constitution? Snap elections? The Great Silence from Carthage has the political class on edge: thenationalnews.com/mena/tunisia/2… One of the biggest takeaways I got from reporting this out is the depth of Saied's isolation right now. Even parties and civil society who support his move are being locked out of conversations about what is next, and it has many of them sweating.