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Protests paralyse Tunisian town after migrant deaths

Protests paralyse Tunisian town after migrant deaths

A southern Tunisian coastal town was paralysed by protests amid growing anger over the fate of people who drowned in a migrant shipwreck last month, with some buried in unmarked graves. The powerful UGTT labour union called a general strike in Zarzis on Tuesday, bringing to head days of smaller protests to demand authorities do more to find missing bodies and improve living conditions. Images showed the streets of Zarzis packed with protesters chanting anti-authority slogans with shops and government institutions closed. "Today the state continues to ignore us and does not even search for those drowned," said Salim Zreidat,…
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No camel rides in Tunisian town as COVID slowly kills tourism

No camel rides in Tunisian town as COVID slowly kills tourism

TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL Two Bulgarian visitors stood in the ancient El Jem amphitheatre, one of Tunisia's top attractions, alone apart from swallows flitting under stone arches -- a sight foretelling another tourist season wrecked by COVID-19. The 3rd-century structure, so symbolic of Tunisia that it features on the 20-dinar note, usually receives about 190,000 visitors a year, but in 2020 only 45,000 came, and so far this year it has been deserted most of the time. Over the past two weeks numbers have picked up a little after the government relaxed quarantine rules for package tours to salvage…
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