Tunisia still in revolt

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In spite of a first election which appeared to make Tunisia more Islamic, the people have not capitulated.

Today the current government was dissolved in response to the assassination of a secular activist. New elections will be held.

BBC report

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Things are definitely heating up. This report from Al Jazeera (click for full text):

Tunisia's labour unions have called for a general strike on Friday, to protest against the killing of opposition politician Shokri Belaid.

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Tunis, said the decision to strike was a "significant move forward".

"The last general strike took place in 1978 and basically, this is something that crippled Tunisia and over the past three decades, the government have always tried to maintain good ties with the unions," said Ahelbarra.

The strike also comes on the back of the country's ruling Islamist Ennahda party rejecting Prime Minister Hamdi Jebali's proposal to dissolve the government and install a cabinet of technocrats in a bid to restore calm after Shokri's assassination outside his home on Wendesday.

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I didn't know him personally, but know people who did. What an outrage.

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Club Med just closed the 2nd of its 3 establishments in Tunisia. Tourism has really dried up and just about all of the resorts anywhere in the country are going out of business.