Residents of Gabes have pressed successive Tunisian administrations to honour a 2017 pledge to close the phosphates plant which has blighted their city but now the government plans a fivefold increase ...

GABES, Tunisia (AP) — Police rained tear gas on crowds and several demonstrators and riot police were injured in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes as thousands of people marched Wednesday to protest ...

Workers in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes launched a general strike on Tuesday following weeks of protest over a chemical factory residents blame for a spike in serious health issues. Thousands ...

Hundreds of people in southern Tunisia's Gabes on Friday protested to demand dismantling a local phosphate processing plant after reports of respiratory distress among residents. The Barron's news ...

The bedroom of 74-year-old Cherifa Attia smells like burnt rubber. The vast phosphate processing plant beside her home has been belching out toxic fumes into the atmosphere, blighting this Tunisian ...

GABES, Tunisia — Police rained tear gas on crowds and several demonstrators and riot police were injured in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes as thousands of people marched Wednesday to protest ...