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Tunisia

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Date of Birth: 3 September 1936


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Whiskey doubles all round

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...


Rumblings of dissent

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...


Elite and underground politics

Political life will remain dominated by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and the top ranks of his Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique which is set to win the next multiparty elections due in 2009...


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Li Jinjun

Li met Khumbo Kchali vice-president of Malawi's ruling Democratic Progressive Party Zambia's Acting President Rupiah Banda and Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali...


Under attack

During the same period GSPC cells reportedly supported an attack on police units in Tunisia where President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has controlled Islamists with a rod of iron since his 1989 crackdown on Rachid Ghannouchi's Ennahda (Renaissance) movement...


Ponderous politicians

TUNISIA: President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has again made commitments to open up the political system but this moves at glacial speed while his Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique dominates all facets of public life and (via the membership of a majority of owners and senior managers) the economy...


Time to deliver

Both Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali won big election victories in 2004...


Faustian deal

Economic growth and social advances (including female MPs) are the reward most Tunisians seem to accept for keeping Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's autocratic government (AC Vol 45 No 4)...


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