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Tunisia
Population: 10.5mn.
GDP: 44.2bn.
Debt: 19.6bn.
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Islamist Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali tries to reassure France and western investors as signs emerge of a post-rebellion recovery. President Moncef Marzouki will act as a secularist counterweight to Islamist currents.

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  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

New rules for a new order

The likely winner of the Constituent Assembly elections is the Islamist party which the deposed autocrat Ben Ali tried to repress

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Contenders for the Assembly

The eight contenders for the Assembly include: • Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party): founded in 1989 by Rachid Ghannouchi, the party has established itself as a mainstream Islamist party. It is expected to win the most seats, if not an absolute majority,...

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

A revolution in the revolution

Activists want the transitional regime to purge the state apparatus and organise free elections this year, and tempers are fraying

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

Ben Ali, biens mal acquis

The Paris Public Prosecutor's office is opening a preliminary investigation into funds and property held in France by Tunisian ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, his family and entourage. Transparency International (TI) France and two other non-gove...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

The jasmine and khaki revolution

Protests after a desperate unemployed graduate’s suicide ousted the Ben Ali regime and may change regional politics

  • Vol 50 No 22
  •  6th November 2009

Party time for the first family

Ben Ali wins a crushing victory and another five years in power

  • Vol 50 No 1
  •  9th January 2009

Rumblings of dissent

Ben Ali's fifth and final term approaches

  • Vol 46 No 15
  •  22nd July 2005

Enlightenment

Recent threats to Egyptian and Tunisian writers reflect a growing confrontation between Islamists and other Muslims. Egyptian philosopher Sa'id Mahmoud el Gomeni has said he'll give up writing about Islamic religion and history because of death threats. S...

  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

Faustian deal

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's vote of 94.49 per cent in the 24 October presidential poll was no surprise; the established opposition said it couldn't compete with his Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique machine.

  • Vol 42 No 16
  •  10th August 2001

Ben Ali for a fourth

Africa's 'change the constitution' movement has now crept north to Tunisia, where the ruling Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique wants to persuade' President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to stand for re-election in 2004. That would entail a const...

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