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Tunisia promises 300,000 new jobs and closes schools

Published on 11/01/2011

President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia announced a programme to create 300,000 new jobs between 2011 and 2012 in an effort to forestall continued unrest in his country which he said were terrorist acts. The government also ordered schools and universities to close until further notice. The government has allocated 5b to create jobs in ...