Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

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...

Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will continue to gloat over economic success: more than 5 per cent economic growth strong foreign investment growth and a well educated population which have reduced the birth rate to 1...

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was never entirely happy running the country in the shadow of its founding father Habib Bourguiba...

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 police force...

Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's 99...

And despite public lobbying by the League of Arab States’ Secretary General Ismat Abdel Meguid and more discreet moves by Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Gadaffi believes his Arab allies do nothing to counter the economic sanctions imposed on Libya by the United Nations and insisted upon by the United States...

Such electoral management is familiar in Tunisia where President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali shows no sign of relaxing his iron grip...

Close relations with Europe were underlined in early June by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's visit to Italy...

This is President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's record – yet his regime makes Western allies uncomfortable...