Phosphate mine workers demonstrate in Tunisia

01 Mai 2020

Tunis, Tunisia, May 1 (Infosplusgabon) - Workers from phosphate mines in the Sidi Bouzid region in central Tunisia on Thursday evening staged a demonstration in the streets of Meknasi to demand improvement of their conditions of service.

They blocked traffic on the main road connecting the cities of Gafsa and Sfax, burned tyres and seized trucks transporting the commodity.

They threatened to harden their actions by blocking all trucks and trains transporting phosphate, until solutions are found to their demands as they accused the government of going back on previously signed agreements.

The phosphate mines of Meknasi began production in May 2019 and have an output of 600,000 tonnes of processed phosphate.

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