Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid pleaded Saturday for people to be "patient" after a wave of protests against poverty and unemployment in the worst social unrest since the 2011 revolution, AFP reports.
He spoke after chairing an emergency cabinet meeting as authorities said a nighttime nationwide curfew would be indefinite.
The measure was imposed Friday after the spread of unrest from the central town of Kasserine, where an unemployed man died of electrocution during a protest, to the rest of the country.