Inside a troubled town on Tunisia-Algeria border

Insight

Experts say terror groups like ISIL recruit by exploiting economic hardships in parts of Africa.

That’s the case along Tunisia’s border with Algeria.

Just months ago riots broke out in the town of Kasserine sparking a nationwide curfew.

Young people there say they are desperate for work and think their only choice is to join a militant group.

CCTV’s Yousseff Gaigi reports.


Bessma Momani on discussing ways to counter the messaging from ISIL

CCTV America’s Asieh Namdar interviewed Bessma Momani, a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada.