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- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
Party time for the first family
Ben Ali wins a crushing victory and another five years in power
- 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...
- Vol 40 No 1
- 08/01/1999
More couscous
Many of the country's elite were among those sentenced on 23 December after Tunisia’s largest ever drugs trial. This was held amid deep secrecy and intense security and under a blanket reporting ban. Of the 139 defendants, the five judges acquitted 13, ga...
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