A former security officer who evicted founding President Habib Bourguiba in November 1987 Ben Ali has supported the emergence of an efficient pro-European economy but has also created a police state prone to crony capitalism...
Presidential aides want Ben Ali to win another term his fourth including 1987-94 after he ousted President-for-Life Habib Bourguiba...
Vol 42 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Ben Ali is more conscious of his place in history after unflattering comparisons with Tunisia's historic leader Habib Bourguiba who died last year...
President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was never entirely happy running the country in the shadow of its founding father Habib Bourguiba...
This is the stick-and-carrot formula that Ben Ali has employed so effectively since he replaced Habib Bourguiba on 7 November 1987...
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali showed off his self-confidence by spending 20 March the 40th anniversary of Independence being filmed on a visit to Habib Bourguiba the President-for-Life whom he eased out of office...