Tunisia: Discontent over factory pollution grows

Hundreds of people have over the last two weeks marched through the streets of Gabes, a city in Tunisia’s south to denounce what they call an environmental and health catastrophe.

On Tuesday, offices and shops remained shuttered thousands of workers declared a general strike, demanding the closure of a government-owned phosphate processing plant which they accuse of emitting poisonous gas.

Researchers have found that some of the waste…