Tunisia’s economic crisis deepens as the promise of a better life fades

Cherine Ghanmi, a 2012 graduate from the marginalised town of al-Mazzunah in Sidi Bou Zid governorate, remains unemployed and reliant on her parents despite their sacrifices to fund her education. Her experience reflects Tunisia’s wider economic crisis, marked by scarce job opportunities, financial strain and growing frustration with successive governments. On September 27, unemployed graduates began a roughly 300km march from Menzel Bouzaiane to Tunis to demand jobs and implementation of a law providing a route into public-sector employment.