TUNIS (Reuters) – As day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family. Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighborhood of the capital where Tunisia’s economic malaise is acutely felt. “Everything has become expensive,” said Ghuili, as her children played next to her. Ghuili, 55, gathers a few kilograms of dirt-covered plastic each day, foraged from heaps of garbage dumped at the roadside. “I salute the people who voted for him, he is a good person,” said Fakhreddine Wannas, 56, a resident.

Source: MetroXpress August 03, 2021 12:21 UTC