Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

To respond directly to a rumour on the internet said one observer suggested some vulnerability in the presidential persona rattled by the fall of fellow veterans such as Tunisia’s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mohamed Hosni Mubarak...

Not a Gadaffi clone Many Algerians point out that Bouteflika is not a dictator in the mould of Tunisia’s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali or Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

The posters called for an end to the 32 years of rule by Dos Santos and drew parallels with January’s overthrow of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia (AC Vol 52 No 3)...

April 6 is credited with much of this year's online organisation emulating the success of the protests against Tunisian ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...

Keeping revolution at bay is the objective of the crisis meetings President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been holding since wide-scale popular unrest in early January well before the Egyptian protests and even before President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali had to leave Tunisia...

The Paris Public Prosecutor's office is opening a preliminary investigation into funds and property held in France by Tunisian ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali his family and entourage...

The arrest of 33 members of the former ruling family less than a week after the overthrow of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on 13 January consolidates the change of regime...

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali saved his allies from a little of the usual embarrassment at his 26 October re-election by polling only 89...

Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in power since 1987 is assured of a fifth term in office (AC Vol 49 No 1)...

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali (born September 1936) has used the AQIM threat to rationalise his extremely hard line on the Islamist opposition a policy that has also stifled non-Islamist opposition and media activity...