Tag: Tunisia
Tunisia’s Ben Ali gets 20 years for incitement to murder
A military court in Tunisia sentenced ousted president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to 20 years imprisonment in absentia Wednesday on various charges including...
Tunisia’s Ben Ali gets 20 years for incitement to murder
A military court in Tunisia sentenced ousted president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to 20 years imprisonment in absentia Wednesday on various charges including...
The world according to the US
A superpower is as a superpower does
It was not just semantics last week when I said America ‘rules’ rather than ‘runs’ Pakistan. The pun...
Political rat race
Never too early for campaigning
While the elections are scheduled for the beginning of 2013, what one sees happening around gives the impression of the...
Tunisia enters new era of democracy
Tunisia entered a new era of democracy Tuesday with the inaugural session of its democratically elected constituent assembly, 10 months after a popular uprising...
Tunisia issues warrant for Arafat’s widow
Tunisian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Suha Arafat, widow of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, as part of a corruption probe...
Arabian knights
The Arab Spring is a rebellion on the cusp of becoming a revolution. It started as a sudden uprising ten months ago in Tunisia....
Islamists to rule Tunisia; clashes in cradle of revolt
The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia's first free election appealed for calm in the town where the "Arab Spring" began, accusing...
Islamists claim win in Tunisia’s Arab Spring vote
Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party was preparing to lead a coalition government on Tuesday after its election win sent a message to the region that...
Polls open in Tunisia’s first post-revolution elections
Polls opened at 07.00 am (0600 GMT) Sunday in Tunisia's first-ever free elections, nine months after the surprise toppling of strongman Zine el Abidine...
Tunisia arrests Gaddafi loyalist
Tunisian police have arrested a member of Libya’s pro-Gaddafi forces and three locals for planning attacks on Libyan refugees and rebel supporters, a spokesman...
Tunisia’s Ben Ali sentenced in absentia to 35 years
A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on Monday to 35 years in jail, six months after his overthrow...
Tunisia finds 150 bodies from refugee vessels
The bodies of 150 African refugees fleeing turmoil in Libya have been recovered off the Tunisian coast after the vessels carrying them illegally to...
Around 150 dead in Tunisian boat sinking
Around 150 migrants heading to Italy drowned when their ship capsized off the Tunisian coast, the International Organization for Migration said in Geneva on...
‘Tracing Ben Ali assets key for Tunisian economy’
The wealth illegally acquired by Tunisia’s ousted president and his cronies must be traced and reclaimed in order to avoid economic paralysis, a top...
Tunisia arrests al Qaeda suspects carrying bombs
Tunisian security forces have arrested two people suspected of being members of al Qaeda carrying an explosives belt and several bombs, Tunisian television reported...
Some 10,000 Libyans flee to Tunisia: UNHCR
GENEVA - Some 10,000 Libyans have fled in the last 10 days from the besieged Western Mountains region to Tunisia, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday. "UNHCR is seeing a growing number of Libyan refugees arriving in Tunisia from Libya's Western Mountains regions," said Andrej Mahecic, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. "This past weekend, some 6,000 Libyan nationals arrived in the Dehiba area of southern Tunisia. Overall, we estimate that 10,000 Libyans have crossed
