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Tunisia

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Date of Birth: 3 September 1936


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Saïed's racial crackdown deepens economic woes

In the past few weeks he has imprisoned political heavyweights including Noureddine Bhiri a senior official in Islamist Ennahda party influential activist Khayam Turki and the former kingmaker for former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Kamel Eltaïef...


Low turn-out saps Saïed

Mass demonstrations took place on 14 January the twelfth anniversary of the revolution that unseated President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring...


Could a cold war turn hot?

Many regions outside Tunis and richer 'Sahel' cities remain as marginalised as they were under Zine el Abidine Ben Ali who was removed in the 2011 revolution and indeed under founding president Habib Bourguiba...


Apathy to greet polling day

Analysts contend that this parliament will be even less influential than the toothless chamber under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...


Saïed ratchets up the autocracy

Saïed restructured the Instance supérieure indépendante pour les élections in May and opposition parties from the left and the hard right Parti destourien libre (PDL) led by former Zine el Abidine Ben Ali loyalist Abir Moussi have accused it of corruption...


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