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Tunisia

Zine el Abidine Ben Ali

Date of Birth: 3 September 1936


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And now the world

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's restrained applause after the national soccer team's victory in the African Cup of Nations on 14 February was like many things in Tunisia heavily controlled...


Fresh start for old faces

Hoping for re-election in 2004 are Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Tunisia's Zine el Abidine Ben Ali...


Hands across the water

Tunisians have long reacted strongly to Middle East events and President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime has allowed public outpourings of anger and frustration where scope for genuine popular expression is otherwise highly constrained...


A defining terror

In Tunisia President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali is planning his own succession after changing the constitution to allow him to stand again in 2004...


Cross-border pressures

In early March Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi separately hosted the Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane el Youssoufi and the head of King Mohammed's office Mohamed Rachdi Chraibi who also met Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on 11 March...


Our American friends

The Presidents of Algeria Egypt and Tunisia Abdelaziz Bouteflika Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali got an unexpected boost from the atrocities of 11 September...


Ben Ali for a fourth

Africa's 'change the constitution' movement has now crept north to Tunisia where the ruling Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique wants to persuade' President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to stand for re-election in 2004...


Industry and Islamism

Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will continue to gloat over economic success: more than 5 per cent economic growth strong foreign investment growth and a well educated population which have reduced the birth rate to 1...


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