If Tunisians agree about one thing, it is that arms have been inundating their country since the January 2011 Revolution and that civil war could break out if the process of democratic transformation that is currently underway fails.
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2010
December
17 Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit-and-vegetable vendor in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzeid, sets fire to himself in front of a local municipal office in protest after being mistreated by police. The first mass demonstrations (...)
GENEVA: The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, and the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Reine Alapini-Gansou, will visit Tunisia from September 27 (...)
Protesters hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police stations, a court house and the offices of secular parties in some of the worst clashes since last year's revolt ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and launched uprisings across the Arab (...)
TUNIS — Tunisia's interior and defense ministries have declared a night time curfew in the capital and seven other suburbs and cities following riots by Salafi Islamists and other protesters angered by an art exhibition they say insults Muslims.
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TUNIS - Hundreds of Salafi Islamists attacked bars and shops and clashed with security forces in a Tunisian town on Saturday in the latest incident to raise religious tensions in the home of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Police and witnesses in the (...)
Hundreds of Salafi Islamists attacked bars and shops and clashed with security forces in a Tunisian town on Saturday in the latest incident to raise religious tensions in the home of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Police and witnesses in the (...)
TUNIS: Last May, a public relations agency hired by Tunisia's government placed an advertisement in some of the world's leading newspapers and business magazines. "Invest in Democracy," read the tagline.
The thinking behind the ads was to attract (...)
Last May, a public relations agency hired by Tunisia's government placed an advertisement in some of the world's leading newspapers and business magazines. "Invest in Democracy," read the tagline.
The thinking behind the ads was to attract (...)
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is formally re-starting operations in Tunisia for the first time in 13 years and will immediately begin a cash-for-work project aimed at assisting the North African country's neediest people.WFP and the (...)
Twenty-nine days were enough to revolutionize the status quo in Tunisia. They saw President Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali flee the country after 23 years in office. What started with a jobless young man's self-immolition ended with Ben Ali's flight to (...)
Esperance suffered a 2-0 defeat by Olympic Beja in their season opener on Sunday.
The result spoiled Esperance's delight after beating African champions Ahli 1-0 victory in the African Champions League.
All big guns failed to secure (...)