Thursday 21 April 2011

Problems Linger in Sidi Bouzid

It was the self-immolation of a young Tunisian man that sparked the uprising that has spread across the Arab world.



However, months after the revolution that brought down 23 years of authoritarian rule, the struggle there in Tunisia is far from over, as Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports from Sidi Bouzid.



Mohamed Bouazizi's desperate gesture might have ignited the uprising. But it was years of state oppression - poverty and unemployment that really inspired people to protest -- President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is gone - but this remains one of the poorest parts of Tunisia.