Sidi Bouzid : Sebbala district calamity, Tunisia mourns “Nos Dames de Tunisie”

Not a week elapses without another disaster reminding the local people and the villagers of the sad fate that beset them. Several farm worker women, being transported to work on a farm in the back of a pickup, were killed when it collided with a minivan carrying poultry in the central region of Sidi Bouzid, last Saturday at dawn. The deaths triggered an outcry on social media, with users accusing farm owners of mistreating their low-paid, mainly female workforce. The obsolescence and precariousness of our legal, and illegal public transport…