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/ 7 February 2011
What happened during a summit when Moammar Gadaffi went to Tunisia in 1973 says a lot about why it is the first Arab nation to overthrow a dictator.
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/ 6 February 2011
At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded in northern Tunisia on Saturday when police opened fire to quell a protest.
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/ 2 February 2011
The new interim government met on Tuesday to review Tunisia’s tense security situation as the UN said 210 people had died in the popular revolt.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
<b>Adekeye Adebajo</b> reflects on the recent events in Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan and Tunisia in light of the AU’s biannual summit.
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/ 30 January 2011
The governor of Tunisia’s central bank said his country was back in business, as he attempted to allay any fears about commerce.
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/ 26 January 2011
Tunisia has asked Interpol to help find and arrest ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family.
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/ 25 January 2011
Egyptian opposition groups have launched a nationwide call for protests on Tuesday, in the hope that Tunisia’s popular uprising will embolden crowds.
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/ 25 January 2011
French president says his ministers underestimated "sense of suffocation" among Tunisians under Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Tunisia’s army chief on Monday warned that a "power vacuum" in the country could lead to dictatorship, as the government prepared a Cabinet reshuffle.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Tunis on Monday as pressure grew for the removal of ministers linked to the ousted president.
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/ 24 January 2011
Hundreds of defiant Tunisians camped in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi’s office to force the government to quit.
Protesters demonstrated on Sunday to demand that the revolution should now sweep the remnants of the fallen president’s guard from power.
The toppling of an authoritarian ruler by waves of street protests has transfixed Arabs across North Africa and the Middle East.
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/ 23 January 2011
So much for journalism being "the first draft of history". It’s more often the first draft of misapprehension, especially if the internet is involved.
Tunisia’s interim prime minister promised to quit politics after elections, a pledge intended to appease protesters.
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/ 21 January 2011
Autocratic regimes in other North African countries have reacted nervously to the Tunisian uprising.
Tunisians have toppled a dictator. Now they have to forge a coalition of socialists, Islamists and liberals for real change.
Analysts say it is too early to tell if yhe dramatic events that led to the ouster of Tunisia’s president could have a "domino effect".
Tunisians lowered flags and state television played recitations of the Quran on Friday to mourn dozens who died in protests.
Tunisian police fired shots into the air on Thursday to try to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers leave the new government.
Egypt’s largest opposition movement demanded on Wednesday that President Hosni Mubarak dissolve the newly elected Parliament and hold new elections.
Tunisia’s interim president on Wednesday promised a "total break" with the past and hailed "a revolution of dignity and liberty".
UN human rights officials will go to Tunisia next week to help investigate violence and advise the new coalition government on justice and reforms.
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/ 19 January 2011
An absence of Islamist slogans from Tunisia’s revolt punches a hole in the argument of autocrats that they are a bulwark against religious radicals.
Tunisia’s caretaker prime minister aims to gather his national unity Cabinet for a first meeting on Wednesday, but he already faces revolt.
Three opposition ministers quit Tunisia’s new coalition government on Tuesday.
Tunisia Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi on Tuesday defended the country’s interim government, saying the retained ministers have "clean hands".
Tunisia’s prime minister has appointed a new unity government, but his decision to retain many ministers from the old guard may upset ordinary people.
Tunisian soldiers fought loyalists of ousted strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali near the presidential palace, police say.
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/ 17 January 2011
The official response to unrest on Tunisia’s streets comes straight out of a tyrant’s playbook.
Tunisia’s prime minister promised to announce a new government on Monday, hoping to maintain momentum to ward off fresh protests.