Tunisia News » Gaabes News Tunisia » Gaabes: Tunisia’s Gabes erupts in mass protests over deadly pollution; cries of ‘want to breathe’ fill streets
Hundreds of Tunisians staged a demonstration in the capital, Tunis, against a severe environmental crisis stemming from a deadly pollution linked to a state-run chemical plant in Gabes. The protest, ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Dozens hospitalised in Tunisia’s Gabes amid environmental crisis
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of the city of Gabes along the country's central coast gather for a protest to demand the closure of chemical factories ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Once an idyll, Tunisian protest hotspot Gabes now an environmental 'nightmare'
GABES, Tunisia (Reuters) -Beneath a smog-choked sky, the once-glistening waters of Gabes in southern Tunisia run dark with rust-coloured streaks. Trees are dying, fish vanishing and a suffocating ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Thousands Protest in Tunisia's Gabes Over Pollution Crisis
TUNIS (Reuters) -Thousands took to the streets of the Tunisian coastal city of Gabes in a huge march on Wednesday, in an escalation of protests that began last week over pollution from the state ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Tunisia jails 10 environmental activists over anti-pollution protests in Gabes
A Tunisian court has sentenced ten environmental activists over a protest against pollution linked to a major phosphate-processing plant in the southern coastal city of Gabes.
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Tunisia’s Gabes Cinema Fen: The festival bringing back cultural life
Dubbed ‘The Shore of Death’, the coastal city of Gabes has made headlines over the past decade for being an environmental wasteland. 13,000 tonnes of phosphate are dumped into the Mediterranean Sea ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Tunisia's Gabès Festival taps into regional tensions for 2026 edition
Oliver Laxe's Moroccan desert rave-set drama Sirāt closed the eighth edition of the Gabès Cinema Festival (Gabès Cinéma Fen) over the weekend in the presence of the Spanish director. Afef Ben Mahmoud, ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Over 200 hospitalized in Tunisia’s Gabes as anger over pollution crisis grows
New pollution cases were reported in Tunisia’s Gabes on Wednesday, as some political parties criticize President Kais Saied’s handling of the worsening pollution crisis in the city. Tunisian and ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: General strike, protests paralyse Tunisia's Gabes over pollution crisis
TUNIS (Reuters) -A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a standstill on Tuesday to back demands for the closure of a state chemical plant ...
News Tunisia » Gaabes: Tunisia’s Gabès Cinema Festival Appoints Afef Ben Mahmoud As Director
EXCLUSIVE: Tunisian actress and filmmaker Afef Ben Mahmoud has taken up the baton as director of the eighth edition of Tunisia’s Gabès Cinema Festival (Gabès Cinéma Fen), celebrating the moving image ...