Protests in Tunisia’s capital amid inflation, food shortages

Food shortages have swept Tunisian supermarkets, leaving shelves empty, and forcing stores to limit customer purchases [File: Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the Tunisian capital as soaring inflation and food shortages have compounded unrest amid the country’s ongoing political crisis.

Protesters in the working class Douar Hicher district of the capital Tunis lifted loaves of bread in the air as they took to the streets in anger on Sunday evening.