Vol 55 No 23 | TUNISIA Slim pickings 21st November 2014 Slim Riahi, a 42-year-old Bizerta-born businessman with British and Tunisian citizenship, is pitting himself against political heavyweight Béji Caïd Essebsi of Nidaa To...
Vol 55 No 21 | TUNISIA Coalition time 24th October 2014 Tunisia elects a new, 217-member Parliament on 26 October and all eyes are on the possible coalitions that will follow. A formal coalition between the front-runners, the Islamist H...
Vol 55 No 20 | TUNISIA Critical votes and toxic loans 10th October 2014 Ahead of key national elections, concern is mounting about the legacy of bad loans from the time of President Ben Ali Dealing with bad debts from the Zine el Abidine Ben Ali era which threaten the banking system has proved so problematic that the government has been contradicting itself. On the mo...
Vol 55 No 16 | TUNISIA Heading for the hills 30th July 2014 The government is rallying the people behind a major campaign against the jihadists despite weak economic indicators Tunisian security forces are beefing up their campaign against Islamist militants in the Mont Chaambi mountains along the Algerian border with a major purchase of helicopters from ...
Vol 55 No 11 | TUNISIA Enforcers freed 30th May 2014 Most of the senior security officers who served ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali are being freed. Many were sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in killing protestors ...
Vol 55 No 9 | TUNISIA Finance smiles on government 24th April 2014 Multilateral lenders and Western governments shower Tunisia with credit in the hope the country does not go the way of neighbouring Libya or Egypt The World Bank became the latest lender to signal its support for the interim government in Tunis when it lent it US$100 million last week to help banks to lend to small businesses...
Vol 54 No 5 | TUNISIA Splits prolong crisis 1st March 2013 Long before opposition leader Chokri Belaïd was assassinated, the political crisis was in full flow. No end is in sight An already serious political crisis was exacerbated when gunmen killed Chokri Belaïd on 6 February and Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, from the ruling Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party...
Vol 54 No 4 | TUNISIA Answers needed 15th February 2013 When opposition leader Chokri Belaïd was shot dead by three masked men in a black car on 6 February, the secular opposition, the mainstream Islamist Hizb Ennahda and much of the...
Vol 53 No 25 | TUNISIA Wilting jasmine 14th December 2012 Two years after Ben Ali’s fall, the lack of social and economic progress is fuelling disenchantment with the government Many of the post-revolution politicians are gaining a reputation for fiddling while parts of Tunisia burn. Riots in late November and early December in Siliana saw over 250 protest...
Vol 53 No 21 | TUNISIA Ghannouchi unplugged 19th October 2012 Liberal mistrust of Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is mounting after his unguarded remarks about collaboration with hard-line Salafist groups were secretly videoed and distribut...
