Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia: On the main road through Sidi Bouzid, Hmaidia Mohjoub is waiting for customers behind his fruit stall on a mild, sunny winter day. "People only buy small quantities these days," he says. The street which used to be called Rue 7 Novembre 1987, after the date when dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali came to power, has been renamed Mohamed Bouazizi Avenue since the Jasmine revolution of 2011. At that time, Mohjoub, 34, still had a job with a good salary at a Swiss company. But because of the unrest that followed, the company fled the country. Now he only earns around 15 dinars ($10) a day and has difficulty paying his 300-dinar...
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