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...
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...
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), resigned...
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...
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...
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 distributed on the internet.
Vol 53 No 6 | TUNISIAMAGHREB Tunisia lobbies for the UMA 16th March 2012 There is growing talk that the moribund Union du Maghreb arabe will hold its first summit since 1994.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 9 | TUNISIA Moncef Marzouki 30th June 2012 President, Tunisia On 31 May, Tunisia hosted the fifth China-Arab Cooperation Forum in Hammamet. For China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, it was the first such meeting since the Arab Spring...
Vol 52 No 21 | TUNISIA New rules for a new order 21st October 2011 The likely winner of the Constituent Assembly elections is the Islamist party which the deposed autocrat Ben Ali tried to repress Tunisians kept their affection for constitutional principles and the rule of law throughout the corruption and autocracy that prevailed under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, whom they...
Vol 52 No 21 | TUNISIA Contenders for the Assembly 21st October 2011 The eight contenders for the Assembly include: • Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party): founded in 1989 by Rachid Ghannouchi, the party has established itself as a mainstream Islamist...