Protests in al-Basra continue

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On Sunday, a person was killed in al-Basra province during a demonstration against unemployment which led to the expansion of protests and continuing in this province in southern Iraq.

Protesters cut off roads and closed vital foundations to put pressure on the government to meet their demand for services and unemployment. Protesters cut off the road between the Iranian border and Basra from al-Shalamjah border crossing, set up sit-in tents in the middle of the street.

While others cut off roads leading to the oil fields in Rumaila North and South and West Qurna I and II, and tried to prevent workers from access to oil facilities, according to al-Sumaria News reported, demanding the departure of foreign workers and replace them with Iraqi workers, while the streets of the province of protest movement wide to demand improvement living conditions and solving problems of electricity, unemployment and drinking water.

On the other hand, the head of the ministerial crisis cell to solve the problems of al-Basra ,oil minister Jabbar al-Abadi announced the provide ten thousand jobs for the people of the province will be distributed according to population density.

In conjunction with the continuing protests, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived today in the province of al-Basra, seeking to calm the existing protests.

Iraq's oil resources account for 89 percent of its budget, accounting for 99 percent of the country's exports, but guaranteeing 1 percent of jobs in national labor, because foreign companies operating in the country are often dependent on foreign labor.

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