KASSERINE (Tunisia) (Sputnik) — On Sunday, a young unemployed person committed suicide in Kasserine after he found out that his name had been removed from a list of those to be hired for public sector jobs. His death sparked anger which spilled over into the streets of Kasserine, where dozens of residents began protests later that day.
"We will continue to protest, we won't be stopped by the decisions of a government that is not willing to negotiate with protesters. We reject the government's decisions on the issue of employment made yesterday, as they were adopted in a hurry and do not meet our requirements," a representative of unemployed university graduates, Wajji Hadraoui, said.
On Wednesday, Tunis announced the creation of 5,000 workplaces and the allocation of some $66 million to construct about a thousand social houses.
Media reports estimate that the overall level of unemployment in Tunisia at the end of 2015 was 15.3 percent, with the Kasserine area recording the country's highest level of 30 percent. One-in-three people who find themselves unemployed in Tunisia are university graduates.
