Tunisia arrests 11 after clashes in birthplace of Arab Spring

Eleven Tunisians were arrested at the birthplace of the Arab Spring due to renewed protests. This is similar to the 2010 uprising because like the first time the demonstrations started after self immolation of a young man that triggered outrage in the central region of Sidi Bouzid

Angry residents blocked roads and attacked police on Saturday and Sunday nights, according to interior ministry spokesman Khaled Hayouni .

Hayouni adds that youths aged between 11 and 18 attacked law enforcement officers during the night, throwing stones at them and wounding 20 officers. Security forces dispersed the youths with tear gas.

Elsewhere in the region, several hundred people burned tyres and blocked roads.

On Tuesday, the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights expressed "deep concern at the state of social tension in Jelma".

This showed the failure of successive governments to devise concrete solutions to unemployment and lack of development in Tunisia's interior, the NGO said.

During the last major wave of protests in January 2016, anger at the death of an unemployed man in Kasserine spread across the country and led to a curfew being imposed for several days.