Rural Tunisian Protest Governments / Video

Rural people who lives different parts of the country protests Tunisian ruling government in front of the prime ministerial building in capital Tunisia.

Protestors coming from Gefsa, Kebili, Gessrine and Sidi Bouzid, Kairouan stayed in from of the building during the night. Rural people requested urgent resign of ruling government.

By the standards of its neighbors in North Africa and the Middle East, Tunisia is an economic success story. Its people are educated. It attracts substantial foreign investment, mainly from Europe. Most people are covered by state health care.

But protesters from the central province of Sidi Bouzid, where a vegetable seller’s desperate suicide by burning sparked the nationwide revolt, say they have not shared in that success.

The statistics speak for themselves. According to the official www.investintunusiaa.tn website, 964 foreign firms employ nearly 93,000 people in the eastern coastal provinces of Monastir, Sfax, Mahdia and Ben Ali’s home town of Sousse.

Greater Tunisia boasts 966 foreign firms employing 87,000. That compares with just 56 foreign firms employing fewer than 7,000 people in the interior provinces of Sidi Bouzid, Kairouan and Gessrine. The southwestern provinces of Gefsa, Kebili and Tozeur fare worse, with 31 foreign employers giving 2,500 jobs.

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