After that demonstrators have blocked for
more than 3 month petrol extration in Kamour pompage unit in the
southern region of Tataouine, they finally succed imposing the implement
of gouvernment agreements from 2017.
At that time the gouvernment
agreed to invest 80 millions dinar (25 millions of €) per year in the
region for development and 1.000? job employement in the petroleum
companies and in a public agency for local gardening and development.
The
gouvernment had been betraying people of Tataouine for more than 3
years but now finally the actual prime minister Mechichi was obbliged to
satisfy the demands saying that the 3 months blockade had a 800
millions costs (in reality economic sources from the gouvernment said
more than 300 millions).
Thanks to the struggle they understood that is better and with a less cost satisfying the people’s demand.
Moreover Mechichi said that in the same way He will go to negotiate where there are similar turmoils in other regions.
The
victory of Kamour committe in Tataoine encouraged other struggle
committes around the country: in the last week there were a
demonstration in the town of Kef where people asked for job and night
blockades and scuffle in Mdhilla (Gafsa region) where unemployed people
blocked the access to the phospate mines, Touzer, Kebili and Gabes where
unemployed people shut down the entry of the main chemical factory of
the country.
All
of these are central and southern region (onli Kef is in the northwest
near algerian border) far away from the medium developed areas on the
coastal axe Tunis-Sfax.
Anyway even there the country saw the
unacceptable death of a young lawyer Sunnya Arbi who died in her
thirties because she was affected by coronavirus but a private hospital
in Nabeul town asked her more than 30.000 dinars for hospitalization
(more than 9.000 euros).
El Kadehin party denouncing this fact once
again reiterated than in a pandemic situation in the country asking for
nationalization of private hospital is a revolutionary demand and that
“is not sufficient struggling the coronavirus pandemy only with soap,
mask and distance”.
On the contrary the WHO representant in Tunisia,
Yves Souteyrand, said that the problem is the individual behaviour,
without saying anything about the gouvernment responsability, adding the
last data: the total affected number of people reached more than 76.000
and more than 2150 deaths. It must take in account that between the
beginning of the pandemy and until mid july the country had 50 deaths
(in 5 monthes), between that last period until now the rest (2100 deaths
in the last 3 monthes and a half). The pubblic hospital are almost
collapsed moreover the only ones equipped by intensive therapy are only
in the Tunis-Sfax axe and few other in the town of Bizerte (60 km north
of Tunis).
In this general situation private italian and tunisian companies try to augment their profits polluting the country.
After
that an italian company selled for 48 euros per tonne, 320 tonnes of
garbage (120 already imported while 200 are waiting in the port of
Sousse) finally tunisain custom communication in charge Haythem Zannad
said in an interview with a local radio that the 200 tonnes will be send
back and the same for 120 ones already imported. He quoted
international conventions of Bale and Bamako that forbid EU countries to
export garbage in Africa. Prime minister Mechichi will personally
contact italian representant for tha: Fayçal Bedhiafi, generl director
of the National Agency for Managment of Garbage was fired.
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