Tunisia’s populist president Kais Saied has declared ‘war’ on food speculators amid a spike in prices and shortage of food products in the North African country triggered in part by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of the world’s top suppliers of wheat. “It is a relentless war against the criminal monopolists,” proclaimed Saeid in a video published by the Tunisian presidency on Wednesday, as he accused them of “striking on social peace and security in society.” Over the past weeks, Tunisian markets witnessed sharp shortages in key staples goods such as flour, oil, sugar, bread, and rice. E…