Police fire tear gas as thousands demand jobs in Tunisia
Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters demanding jobs in the impoverished Tunisian city of Kasserine on Wednesday, as smaller demonstrations broke out in the capital and at least eight other...
View ArticleTunisians at heart of protest say govt is failing them
Click photo to enlarge Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid shares a smile with ministers prior to preside over an extraordinary Cabinet meeting in Carthage, outside Tunis, Saturday Jan. 23, 2016....
View ArticleTunisia Imposes Curfew Amid Growing Unemployment Protests
(KASSERINE, Tunisia)— Tunisia imposed a nationwide overnight curfew Friday in response to growing unrest as protests over unemployment across the country descended into violence in some cities. A...
View ArticleTunisian Police, Rioters Clash in More Job Protests
Reuters KASSERINE, TUNISIA— Tunisian police firing tear gas clashed on Thursday with hundreds of protesters who set fire to a police post and tried to storm local government buildings in several towns...
View ArticleTunisia: 'Nothing’s changed since the revolution' – in pictures
Tunisia, dubbed the poster child of the Arab spring, faces economic, social and security challenges five years after the president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, stood down. Young people living in deprived...
View ArticleWhere is post-revolution Tunisia heading?
It's been five years since the beginning of Tunisia's revolution, a popular uprising that has been credited with setting off a wave of...
View ArticleJoblessness Fuels Protests in Tunisian Cities
Reuters TUNIS, TUNISIA— Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters demanding jobs in the impoverished Tunisian city of Kasserine on Wednesday, as smaller demonstrations broke out in the...
View ArticleTunisia imposes nationwide curfew amid spreading unrest
KASSERINE, Tunisia — Tunisia imposed a nationwide overnight curfew Friday in response to growing unrest as protests over unemployment across the country descended into violence in some cities. The week...
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Labour would reduce cost of childcare if reelected Labour TD for Waterford Ciara Conway has said, if returned to power, the party would dramatically decrease the cost of childcare for parents over a...
View ArticleTunisia unrest leads to nationwide curfew
Tunisia imposed a nationwide overnight curfew Friday in response to growing unrest as protests over unemployment across the country descended into violence in some cities. A curfew from 8 p.m. until 5...
View ArticleSuicide Sparks Sporadic Protests Across Tunisia
Edward Yeranian CAIRO— Protests have been spreading across parts of Tunisia during the past week, after a young unemployed man committed suicide. The wave of popular unrest appears to coincide with the...
View ArticleTunisian youths demand jobs, say govt is failing them
KASSERINE, Tunisia (AP) -- Unemployed young people from the Tunisian city that touched off nationwide protests say the government is failing them and protested anew Saturday in a precarious calm...
View Article5 Years After Ousting A Dictator, Is Tunisia Backsliding On Human Rights?
3:02 PM ET Merrit Kennedy i Tunisians celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring on Thursday in Tunis. Riadh Dridi/AP hide caption toggle caption Riadh Dridi/AP Tunisians celebrate the fifth...
View ArticleUAE Ambassador attends celebrations of fifth anniversary of Tunisia's 2011...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates) HE Salem Issa Qattam Al Zaabi, UAE Ambassador to Tunisia has attended the celebrations marking the...
View Article‘I was terribly wrong’ - writers look back at the Arab spring five years on
In January 2011, days after the first uprising in Tunisia and the protests in Tahrir Square, the Guardian invited leading writers from across the Arab world to reflect on the revolutionary fervour...
View ArticleAwaiting The Messiah of Tunisia
Even if Bourguiba has emerged in the Tunisian political scene as a successful patriot, he can't erase the memory of another popular patriot, the martyred union leader Farhat Hached, who would have...
View ArticleTunisia accuses 'dirty hands' of fuelling unrest
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has warned that members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in neighbouring Libya may use the unrest in Tunisia to sneak into the country....
View ArticleThe Latest: Essebsi warns IS could sneak into Tunisia
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The latest developments on unrest in Tunisia. All times local: 9:00 p.m. Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi warns that Islamic State group militants in neighboring Libya could...
View ArticleArab Spring Became Brutal Winter, Analysts Say
Mohamed Elshinnawi Five years after Tunisia became the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, analysts say most of the Arab countries that witnessed popular uprisings in 2011 are now worse off. The...
View ArticleTunisia police, rioters clash in more job protests
Unemployed graduates shout slogans during a demonstration to demand the government provide job opportunities on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia. Photo by Reuters Tunisian police firing tear...
View ArticleThousands rally in Tunis to mark 2011 revolution anniversary
Thousands of people have gathered in the Tunisian capital to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2011 revolution that overthrew longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. They thronged Habib Bourguiba...
View ArticleNationwide curfew imposed in Tunisia to counter growing unrest
A woman walks past a police car in Tunis, Friday, Jan.22, 2016. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi) Tunisia’s president has vowed to end the cycle of unrest that has pummeled towns across the country as authorities...
View ArticleFive years on, unrest tests 'Arab Spring' model Tunisia
By Tarek Amara KASSERINE, Tunisia (Reuters) - On Dec. 17, 2010, a young, desperate Tunisian vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in a suicide protest over unemployment and police abuse that...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring Is Not Dead
As the flames ignited from the dusty town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia spread from one Arab country to another, it seemed as if Arabs had finally emerged out of the long dark tunnel where they had...
View ArticleTunisians rally to mark 5 years since president's ouster
Tunisian teachers, activists and political parties have joined to celebrate five years since protesters drove out their autocratic president and ushered in a democratic era. The crowd at Thursday's...
View ArticleFive years on, unrest tests Arab Spring model Tunisia
On Deember 17th, 2010, a young, desperate Tunisian vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in a suicide protest over unemployment and police abuse that spread revolt across the Arab world....
View ArticleTunisia imposes nationwide curfew amid growing unrest
Tunisia’s president vowed on Friday to end the cycle of unrest that has pummelled towns across the country as authorities imposed a nationwide curfew – five years after the nation, convulsed by...
View ArticleFive years on, Arab Spring blighted, not blossoming
Five years ago this month, the "Arab Spring'' got under way with the non-violent overthrow of Tunisia's long-ruling dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. He dared not order the army to open fire on the...
View ArticleFive Years After the Revolution, Tunisia Is Sliding Back to the Past
(Editor's Note: Jan. 14 is the fifth anniversary of the resignation of Tunisian President Ben Ali in the wake of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution.) TUNIS, Tunisia -- Jan. 14. Five years later. "My country...
View ArticleTunisia charter a key achievement, says official
Doha: A major achievement of the Tunisian revolution has been the current constitution, yet there are many challenges facing the last candle of democracy in the Arab Spring states, says a senior...
View ArticleWhy Tunisians Are Protesting Again 5 Years After The Revolution
When Ridha Yahyaoui found out last Saturday that he was out of the running for yet another job, the unemployed 28-year-old climbed a utility pole in the Tunisian town of Kasserine and was electrocuted...
View ArticleLack of Jobs Greater Threat Than Jihadists, Analysts Warn
Jamie Dettmer ROME— Rights activists and economists have been warning for months that growing disaffection among young jobless Tunisians would soon test the stability of the country. They say the...
View ArticleTunisia starts curfew amid protests; France offers 1B euros
(CNN)Tunisia's government Friday announced a nationwide curfew as it counters demonstrations over a scarcity of jobs -- protests that come five years after similar complaints in the North African...
View ArticleArab Spring Aftermath: More Conflict, Instability In The Middle East
The waves of revolution that swept across the Arab world five years ago have long since receded, leaving behind an indelible mark of chaos. Dreams of democratic reform are now largely dashed, as the...
View ArticleArab Spring Generation
(Tunis, Photo/Salma Amer) I happened to be in Tunisia on the 14th of January, which not only marks the 5th anniversary of the Tunisian 2010 revolution; a date that sparked all the 2011 Arab countries'...
View ArticleTunisia's Unfinished Revolution
Over the last few days, Tunisia has been in the grip of a wave of unrest that erupted from Kasserine in the center of the country and spread to other towns and cities in the inner and southern regions,...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring’s Aftermath, in 7 Minutes
An Egyptian anti-government protester prays in Cairo's Tahrir Square, on January 31, 2011. Amr Dalsh / Reuters Demonstrations marking the anniversary of the Egyptian uprising were subdued on Monday....
View ArticleIn Tunisia, the sole Arab Spring success, economic woes reignite unrest
In 2011 a young Tunisian street vendor set himself afire in protest of an authoritarian system and government corruption that squelched economic opportunity for Tunisians like him. Mohamed Bouazizi’s...
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