Thriving Tunisian date farm a sweet story amid bitter land reclamations
A community in Jemna has turned ancestral land into a cash cow that serves its residents
17 December 2020 - 09:56
Jemna — As revolution swept Tunisia 10 years ago, the people of Jemna saw their chance to settle a colonial-era score: seizing a 185ha date plantation just outside the oasis town.
“We had to get our land back, we should be the ones using it,” said Mohsen Ezzine, 40, who was among those who occupied the farm — claiming it as ancestral land — two days before then-president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali fled abroad in January 2011...
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