The Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Ennahda dominated the decade after the fall of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali but in successive governments it failed to revive the faltering economy or to create a stable polity...
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The week of protests which mark a decade since the protests of 2011 drove out President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali are prompting concern among political leaders that the country's democratic institutions could be broken by another uprising (AC Vol 61 No 7 The spring unsprung)...
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Then on election day his widow Chadlia Farhat succumbed and five days after that on 19 September former president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali overthrown in the 2011 revolution died in exile in Saudi Arabia...
Not for nothing do people increasingly speak with nostalgia about the Zine el Abidine Ben Ali era before the revolution when 800 dinars a month was a comfortable income...
Two distinct narratives dominate the political landscape eight years after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia as the Arab Spring erupted...
Since Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in 2011 Tunisia has been home to combative civil society groups and a resilient political culture described in a new book by political scientist Safwan Masri as being 'predisposed to democracy because of ingredients that are uniquely indigenous to it [Tunisia]'...
Questions about the size solvency and governance of Tunis' financial sector remain as they did when Zine el Abidine Ben Ali – whose cronies borrowed at will from state banks – was overthrown (AC Vol 56 No 3 Doubts over banks sell-off)...
A co-founder of the party he was already well-known for Islamist activism when Zine el Abidine Ben Ali became President in 1987...
Ministry veteran Abderrahmene Belhaj Ali was President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's first head of presidential security appointed in November 1987...
New Finance Minister Slim Chaker has been warned against confiscating assets from members of the inner circle of ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime Africa Confidential understands...
Secret audits of Tunisia's anaemic state banks have turned up a host of bad loans from the era of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...
Vol 56 No 3 |
- TUNISIA
- BRITAIN
Tunisia's Interior Ministry has remained largely untouched by recent democratic reforms despite a brutal record under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and its efforts to suppress the Jasmine Revolution in 2011 (AC Vol 55 No 11 Enforcers freed)...
