Alwaght- Riots have spread across Tunisia as thousands of irate protestors clashed with police over lack of jobs and worsening economic conditions.
Police firing tear gas clashed on Thursday with protesters who set fire to police posts and tried to storm local government buildings in towns across the country in the largest protests since the 2011 Islamic Awakening protests.
At least one policeman has been killed in three days of riots over jobs and economic conditions that amount to one of the most sustained tests to Tunisia's stability since the revolution that toppled Western-backed dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
Several thousand youths demonstrated on Thursday outside the local government office in Kasserine, an impoverished central town where protests began this week after a young man killed himself after apparently being refused a public sector job.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters trying to storm local government buildings in several other towns including Sidi Bouzid, where youths chanted "Jobs or Another Revolution", according to state media and local residents.
This week's events have evoked memories of the suicide of a struggling young market vendor in December 2010 that became a catalyst for Tunisia's 2011 uprising, which in turn inspired Islamic Awakening across the Arab world.
Tunisia has since been held up as a model for democratic progress, with free elections and a modern constitution. It managed largely to avoid the violence that marred political upheaval in other countries.
But for many Tunisians, the revolution has not delivered on its economic promises, with the young in particular complaining about a lack of jobs and high living costs.
Three major Takfiri terrorist attacks in Tunisia last year have also hit the economy, especially tourism which generates essential revenue and employment.
Fears of further terrorist attacks frightened off foreign tourists and dealt a heavy blow to the struggling economy at a time when unemployment stood at more than 15 percent.
More than 3,000 Tunisians have traveled to Libya, Iraq and Syria to fight alongside ISIS terrorists, according to the authorities, who said that attackers received arms training in neighboring Libya.
Responding to the latest protests, Prime Minister Habib Essid's office said he would return home early from a visit to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos and would hold an emergency cabinet meeting before visiting Kasserine on Saturday.
President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Wednesday the government would hire more than 6,000 young unemployed people from Kasserine and start construction projects.
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