By Tarek Amara SILIANA, Tunisia | Sun Dec 2, 2012 10:21am EST (Reuters) – In a remote town in Tunisia’s interior, protesters angry over joblessness and harsh police tactics call for the downfall of new Islamist rulers, echoing the revolt that ignited […]
By Francesco Guarascio and Tarek Amara | Reuters – Wed, Nov 28, 2012 TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia, struggling to ease economic difficulties that have provoked unrest since its democratic revolution, said on Wednesday it had secured more international lending to cover its 2013 spending. […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:23pm EST (Reuters) – The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts […]
Tunisia’s election is finally over and we have the first post-uprising victory of a Brotherhood calque. But the events in Sidi Bouzid certainly marred the process. I turned up there mid-Friday afternoon when the town courthouse and National Guard building were still burning furiously. […]
By Andrew Hammond SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia | Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:36pm BST (Reuters) – Smoke billowed from a wrecked police station in Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid Friday after protesters angry that their election candidates were disqualified rampaged through the town that was […]
By Andrew Hammond SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia | Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:50pm EDT (Reuters) – This provincial Tunisian town became the cradle of the “Arab Spring” revolts nearly a year ago because residents were fed up with being talked down to by […]
TUNIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Tunisian Islamists who won a historic election victory this week are expected to promote business-friendly economic policies but Europe’s economic woes could favour Gulf investors in the short term, analysts say. Tweet
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam – he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever. […]
By Andrew Hammond and Tarek Amara TUNIS | Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:46pm EDT (Reuters) – Islamists are expected to do well in Tunisia’s first democratic election Sunday, 10 months after the ouster of autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in a […]
By Andrew Hammond and Tarek Amara TUNIS | Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:54pm EDT (Reuters) – The main contenders in Tunisia’s first free election after the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali held final campaign rallies on Friday, with both Islamists and […]