FILE PHOTO: A man rides on a scooter during sunset in Tunis, Tunisia August 1, 2021. Picture taken August 1, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
TUNIS (Reuters) - As day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family.
Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighborhood of the capital where Tunisia's economic malaise is acutely felt.
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