Gafsa is the capital of Gafsa Governorate of Tunisia. Its name was appropriated by archaeologists for the Mesolithic Capsian culture. With a population of 84,676, it is the 9th Tunisian city. The city had 84,676 inhabitants at the 2004 census. Contemporary Gafsa is a modern town, and the centre of the Djerid area’s important phosphate industry. Of note are the Roman baths, still used today. The city lies 369 km by road southwest of Tunis.
In January 2008 Gafsa was the epicentre of a popular spontaneous uprising protesting against the corruption and nepotism of the country’s authoritarian regime of president Ben Ali. The uprising was swiftly suppressed and went unreported in the state-controlled Tunsian media. Youtube was blocked in Tunisia because it carried video footage from the riots and information about the subsequent treatment of its instigators by the Tunisian regime.

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