Published date: 21 January 2021 16:45 UTC | Last update: 2 months ago
Exactly ten years after the 2011 revolution, Tunisia has seen the resurgence of mass protests in working class areas
Since Friday evening, clashes between the police and young people in working-class areas of Tunis have spread like wildfire (AFP)
The working-class areas were invited to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the day former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled, on 14 January, only to ignite the social unrest which had for months been billed as inevitable.
The government may have hoped to avoid the commemoration of the 2011 events becoming a spark in a powder keg by imposing a four-day, nationwide lockdown, of dubious public health efficacy, to run from Thursday 14 through Monday 18 January – wryly renamed the