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Tunisia

Population: 10.1 million
GNI: $30100 million
Debt: $14700 million
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 Ex-policeman President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will keep an iron grip on power ahead of elections in 2009, in which his Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique will use cash and incumbency to marginalise the opposition.

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  • Vol 46 No 15
  • 22/07/2005

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...

  • Vol 45 No 22
  • 05/11/2004

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
  • 10/08/2001

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...

  • Vol 41 No 8
  • 14/04/2000

Bourguiba's ghost

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was never entirely happy running the country in the shadow of its founding father, Habib Bourguiba. He died on 6 April and with the end of formal mourning, former police officer Ben Ali may breathe a sigh of relief.

  • Vol 41 No 6
  • 17/03/2000

Post-poll rumblings

The arrest of dozens of school and college students during demonstrations in the south-east - traditionally a barometer of popular tension - broke the veneer of total calm so energetically promoted by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's government and pol...

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