Shutting up shop: Libyan conflict squeezes southern Tunisia
Published on: Sunday 09 June 2019
The town in Tunisia’s impoverished south has for decades served as an entrepot for goods, smuggled or imported, 35km across the border from Libya. Since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, however, conflict in the neighbouring country has decimated business. The financial fallout from Libya'