In 2010, the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian fruit seller, sparked protests throughout North Africa and the Middle East, even in his home country. Ten years later, Tunisia is a democracy. He has resisted the assassinations, terrorist attacks and ideological abysses of his leaders, at crucial times withdrawing from the precipice of returning to authoritarian rule, as happened in Egypt, and the civil war, as in Syria, Yemen and Libya .
But for most of Tunisia, the revolution has been experienced as a drop in living standards. Economic growth has halved since 2010 and unemployment is endemic among young people, who account for 85% of the unemployed. The Guardian’s international correspondent Michael Safi talk to Rachel Humphreys of the country, where he went to examine the impact of Arab sources ten years later
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