On 14 March 2025, substitute teachers carried out a protest at the Regional Education Delegation's headquarters in Kasserine (Ezzouhour, Kasserine) and called for the payment of their wages, as well as the settlement of their professional situation.

Supply-chain Risk Briefing

Summary

On March 14, 2025, substitute teachers in the Kasserine region of Tunisia held peaceful protests at the regional education office headquarters, demanding wage payments and job security. Currently rated as a 'low' grade small-scale demonstration with no reported direct logistics disruptions or industrial activity suspensions.

Supply-chain impact

• Regional transport networks: Kasserine is located in Tunisia's central-western inland region, and if protests spread, potential impact on overland transport routes near the Algerian border
• Agriculture sector: The Kasserine region is an active agricultural area for grain and livestock, with concerns over indirect impact on agricultural supply and demand during prolonged social instability
• Infrastructure operations: Need to monitor the possibility of public service sector protests spreading to solidarity demonstrations by workers in other essential infrastructure (ports, airports, power)
• North African regional risk: Attention to ripple effects of Tunisia's political and social instability on trade with neighboring Libya, Algeria, and others

Watch points

• Track whether solidarity protests by education-related workers in other regions spread and monitor scale changes
• Observe social instability index changes through Tunisian government response measures and reactions from unions and civil society
• Check possibility of protest spread to the capital Tunis and major port cities (Sfax, Bizerte)