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In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead

In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead

JIHED ABIDELLAOUI AMMAR AWAD AS day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family. Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighborhood of the capital where Tunisia's economic malaise is acutely felt. "Everything has become expensive," said Ghuili, as her children played next to her. Exacerbated by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic grievances have fuelled discontent in Tunisia, leading to protests that encouraged President Kais Saied…
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