Tunisia phosphate is running out after production ceased

Official in the Tunisian Chemical Group successful Salimi told Reuters that stocks Tunisia phosphate run out on Friday and stop exports, because of the sit - citizens demanded jobs .

It has phosphate production stops in the cities of the mining basin in the province of Gafsa , southwest of Tunis due to the protest . He pledged the new Prime Minister Yousuf witness last week to address the strikes and sit - ins illegal after it lost Tunisia about two billion dollars due to the sharp decline in the production of phosphate .

And Tunisia has produced more than eight million tons of phosphate in 2010, but production fell to four million tons last year because of repeated protests.