Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali

Tunisian candidates start their presidential campaigns
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Tunisian candidates start their presidential campaigns

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian presidential candidates began campaigning on Monday for the Sept. 15 election against a backdrop of economic…
Tunisian President Essebsi has died: presidency
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Tunisian President Essebsi has died: presidency

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, a major player in the North African country’s transition to democracy…
Strike by Tunisian fuel workers leads to queues and empty pumps
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Strike by Tunisian fuel workers leads to queues and empty pumps

TUNIS (Reuters) – Fuel distribution workers in Tunisia began a three-day strike on Thursday to demand higher wages, leading to…
Ghost workers sap Tunisia’s phosphate wealth
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Ghost workers sap Tunisia’s phosphate wealth

METLAOUI, Tunisia – Tunisia’s state phosphate firm CPG pays Abdel-Basset Klifhi a salary of $280 a month, even though he…
Major Tunisian union threatens protests if privatizations go ahead
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Major Tunisian union threatens protests if privatizations go ahead

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labor union will stage protests if the government goes ahead and privatizes ailing state firms, the UGTT…
Tunisia parliament approves controversial amnesty for Ben Ali-era corruption
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Tunisia parliament approves controversial amnesty for Ben Ali-era corruption

Tunisia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial law granting amnesty to officials accused of corruption during the rule of autocrat…
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