Protests Continue, Tear Gas Used In Tunis
January 24 2011
Police have fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse a crowd of anti-government protesters gathered outside the prime minister's office in Tunis, the Voice of America News reports.
Monday's confrontation came after the crowd assembled in the Tunisian capital on Sunday night in defiance of a curfew order, said police.
On Sunday, demonstrators demanded that allies of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali be excluded from the new government.
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