Tunisia Imposes Night-Time Curfew After Week of Violent Unrest
- Premier returning from Davos to lead emergency cabinet meet
- Demonstrations have echoes of those that led to Arab Spring
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Tunisia imposed a nationwide night-time curfew following a week of violent demonstrations over unemployment and poverty sparked by the apparent suicide of a youth who was rejected for a government job.
The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. local time and end at 5 a.m., the Interior Ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page. The decision was taken after protesters “deviated from their initial objective of demanding employment and the right to work, and following acts of vandalism in certain regions,” it said. Prime Minister Habib Essid is returning early from the World Economic Forum in Davos to lead an emergency cabinet meeting.