Just over 100 days after the Jasmine Revolution that saw President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali flee into exile in Saudi Arabia the capital has been hosting a succession of political debating forums and demonstrations which have sometimes escalated into violent confrontations (AC Vol 52 No 2 & AC Vol 52 No 3)...
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...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- NORTH AFRICA
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...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- TUNISIA
- FRANCE
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...