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Moncef Marzouki has been sworn in as the Tunisia’s first elected president since the north African nation’s revolution sparked the Arab Spring.
The Islamist party that won Tunisia’s first post-revolution election says it will elevate a decades-old gender equality statute to a basic law.
Islamist supporters descended on Tunis on Saturday to confront liberal demonstrators rallying against extremism as a new constitution is drafted.
Tunisia’s three main parties have formalised a power-sharing agreement — 10 months after the ousting of strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
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/ 4 November 2011
A Tunis court has confirmed that jail sentences given to family members of Tunisia’s ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali would remain.
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/ 2 November 2011
A Tunisian court will next week review Tripoli’s demand for the extradition of Libyan ex-prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi.
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/ 29 October 2011
Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the Tunisian revolution, is calm once again after a curfew imposed because of violent post-election protests.
Tunisia’s Ennahda party says it will form a new government soon, as early results give it a strong lead in the Arab Spring’s first free election.
A secular Tunisia could be a thing of the past as moderate Islamists are believed to be ahead in Tunisia’s vote count after this year’s uprising.
Tunisian voters poured into polling stations to vote in their country’s first free election, 10 months after the start of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Islamists are expected to do well in Tunisia’s first democratic election today, after a popular uprising that set off protests around the Arab world.
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/ 17 October 2011
As the country that launched the Arab Spring heads into an historic election next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists.
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/ 10 October 2011
Police have used teargas to disperse hundreds of Tunisians protesting against a niqab ban and the screening of a film they said denigrated Islam.
The Tunisian seaside resort of Yasmine Hammamet is like a picture postcard in early summer — but with nobody in it.
Tunisian authorities came under fire for their high-speed sentencing in absentia of toppled president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to 35 years in prison.
The trial in absentia of former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, deposed in the first Arab Spring uprising, has begun in Tunisia.
Deposed and exiled Tunisian autocrat Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has broken his silence to denounce his trial on corruption charges as a "masquerade".
About 150 migrants heading to Italy drowned when their ship capsized off the Tunisian coast, the International Organisation for Migration has said.
A flash blow wave but no time for a wash, a quick eyebrow shaping or rushed facials: women dart in and out of Tunis’ beauty salons before curfew.
Just as a fresh breeze now blows through the country’s politics and press, Tunisia’s cultural institutions too have the chance to flourish.
Italy and Tunisia have struck a deal to choke off the flood of Tunisians heading to Italian shores.
With the fight to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Djerbahas become the only Tunisian airport to process tens of thousands of fleeing refugees.
Libyan rebels ceded ground to Muammar Gaddafi’s advancing forces on Monday as the US came under increasing pressure to arm the opposition.
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/ 28 February 2011
Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resigned on Sunday and was replaced by Beji Caid Essebsi after protests left five people dead over the weekend.
In the past few weeks the world has been gripped by news from North Africa. Tunisia and Egypt are in the throes of change brought on by people power.
Moammar Gadaffi vowed to die in Libya as a martyr in an angry tv address on Tuesday as rebel troops said eastern regions had broken free from his rule
Protests and crackdowns follow successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
Can Zimbabwe learn from the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions? Yes, argues <b>Trevor Ncube</b>, only if the people take matters into their own hand.
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/ 17 February 2011
Ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is "in a coma" in a Saudi hospital following a stroke, a family friend said on Thursday.
President Jacob Zuma is confident that South Africa "will never become a Tunisia", he said in an interview published on Thursday.
A month after protests ousted Tunisia’s longtime dictator, waves of Tunisians are voting with their feet by fleeing the country’s political limbo.