Tunisia's summer of discontent

Across Tunisia , the question this summer was brutally simple: when will the electricity cut out? For some, the answer was a few times a day, mainly in the dead of the night. But for many, the outages lasted for hours on end during the hottest parts of the day - turning homes into lethal furnaces. In the middle of gruelling heatwaves, fans stopped spinning, air conditioners fell silent and the taps ran dry, stark reminders that the state is struggling to provide even the most basic services.