Tunisia struggles to progress under cumbersome bureaucracy

Tunis, Tunisia – Every time Mohamed Ali finds himself wrestling with Tunisia’s encrusted bureaucracy, the experience is the same: long delays and endless waits. That was the case last week when his uncle sought his help to register the sale of a plot of land.

“We had to go from office to office, with everyone sending us to different bureaus,” said Ali, an unemployed man in his early thirties from the coastal town of Ben Guerdane, close to the border with Libya.

“It’s the same…