Tunisia: Power, Water Shortages Endanger Rights
Human Rights Watch said the outages exposed years of underinvestment and left hospitals, prisons and households without reliable power or water.
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Human Rights Watch accused the Tunisian authorities of failing to provide adequate electricity and water supply within two months of extreme freedom, thereby undermining the right to health and endangering lives.
Tunisia: Power, Water Shortages Endanger Rights
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Recurrent power outages, power outages, long lines to get bottled water and farms devastated by heat. Millions of Tunisians this summer suffered water and electricity cuts, a crisis that, according to experts, is due to years of lack of investment. Although water shortages were alleviated by the end of August with the massive supply of bottles to shops, there is growing fear that the situation will recur next year.
Tunisia follows Algeria’s economic path as shortages grip daily life – The North Africa Post
As Tunisians return to work and school after a punishing summer, empty supermarket shelves, intermittent water supplies, and rolling power cuts have become the new normal, raising concerns that the country is sliding into the same cycle of chronic shortages and state-controlled scarcity long familiar in neighboring Algeria. In the capital and across the country, […]
Tunisia - Arabic Jerusalem: Human Rights Watch said today that the Tunisian authorities failed to provide adequate supplies of electricity and water within two months of extreme heat in the summer, undermining the right to health and endangering lives. On the other hand, it noted that President Kais Said had blamed acts of sabotage, but the authorities did not provide transparent information, rather than [...].
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