Inflation & Prices
Bread Joins Fuel as Flashpoint in Tunisia’s Economic Crisis
- Country seeks up to $4 billion to shore up weak finances
- Bakers guild calls strike amid heightened political tensions
President Kais Saied
Photographer: Olivier Matthys/Getty Images
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Tunisian bakers called a one-day strike amid growing discontent in the cash-strapped North African country that’s trying to secure an International Monetary Fund deal and saw major fuel shortages this month.
The bakers’ guild’s call for the protest comes on the heels of an unprecedented fuel shortage earlier this month, raising concerns among Tunisians that months of scarcity in key staples such as cooking oil, subsidized wheat flour and pasta will get worse.