public private property: On January 22, officials implemented the nationwide curfew to counter large-scale demonstrations over a lack of jobs and abundance of poverty, according to CNN. The Interior Ministry explained then that the move, prohibiting people from being out between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., was to to protect public and private property from attack. The decision affects "the whole territory," according to the ministry Facebook page. Protests about scarce jobs and an ineffective government also drove similar unrest five years ago and spurred authoritarian President Zine el Abedine Ben Ali to flee in January 2011 -- making Tunisia the first of what would become several nations in the Arabic-speaking region in North Africa and the Middle East where popular uprisings led to the ouster of longtime leaders. Read More Tunisia, though, had long been hailed as the exception. Turmoil followed in other countries such as Libya and Egypt that were also caught up in what was called the Arab Spring, while protests in Syria spiraled into a bloody civil war that still rages today.
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