Bizerte, Tunisia News

Can a new network of African solar researchers lead the way on solar power for the continent? Christine Ottery finds out.

More than a year after the self-immolation in Tunisia that incited the first revolution of the Arab Spring, Tunisians are setting themselves on fire at a disturbingly high rate, with at least four people doing so in the last week.

PanARMENIAN.Net - A local official in the Tunisian city of Sfax says a middle-aged woman has died after setting herself on fire - the fourth case of self-immolation in the last week in the North African nation.

Her suicide followed that of a father of four in Gafsa who set himself on fire Thursday and died five days later.

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