Tunis residents decry beaches too polluted for swimming
19 September 2021 |
2:26 pm
Hundreds of Tunisian protesters form a human chain over the weekend to highlight the pollution plaguing the coast south of the Tunisian capital. Organisers say some 3,500 people joined the protest along the beaches between Rades and Borj Cedria, a 13-kilometre (eight-mile) stretch of sheltered coastline home to around 300,000 people.
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