TUNISIA imposed a nationwide overnight curfew yesterday as protests over youth unemployment spread across the country.

In an echo of the 2010 popular uprising that heralded the start of the Arab Spring, a wave of unrest has rocked the country since the death of a young unemployed man on Sunday.

University graduate Ridha Yahyaoui was electrocuted in the city of Kasserine as he climbed an electricity pylon to protest at his rejection from a government job.