{Protests over youth unemployment have spread to several towns and cities in Tunisia, leading to the death of a policeman in clashes on Thursday.}<\/p>\n
Demonstrations began in the northern Kasserine region after a man was electrocuted while protesting at being rejected for a government job.<\/p>\n
In the town of Feriana, a policeman died after his car was overturned.
\nUnemployment has worsened since the 2011 revolution, when President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted.<\/p>\n
The revolution was triggered by struggling market stall owner Mohamed Bouazizi killing himself in Sidi Bouzid.<\/p>\n
Some of those demonstrating this week said many of the social problems highlighted in 2011 had not been resolved.<\/p>\n
More than a third of young people are unemployed, with 62% of Tunisian graduates without work according to the OECD.<\/p>\n
“We have been waiting for things to get better for five years and nothing has happened,” Yassine Kahlaoui, a 30-year-old jobseeker, told the Associated Press in Kasserine, where police fired tear gas at demonstrators near government buildings.<\/p>\n
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Demonstrators cut off all roads to Sidi Bouzid, according to AFP news agency<\/p>\n
The interior ministry said 59 officers were hurt on Thursday<\/p>\n
Medical officials told AP some 40 demonstrators were injured<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people marched in the capital, Tunis, to demand work<\/p>\n
A police station in the southern town of Guebeli was set alight, and a police post in
\nKef, in the north, abandoned, Reuters news agency reports<\/p>\n
President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Wednesday that more than 6,000 jobs would be given to people from Kasserine. The government also promised an investigation into allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the office of Prime Minister Habib Essid said he was to return home early from the World Economic Forum in Davos, and would visit Kasserine on Saturday.
\nUnemployment was a major problem affecting Tunisia, Mr Essid said in a speech in Davos on Thursday, adding “we do not have a magic wand to end it in a short period of time”.<\/p>\n
Source:BBC:Tunisia protest: [Clashes as demonstrations spread->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35377580]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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