Tunisia Bound

Tunisia: Switzerland may unfreeze dictator’s ill-gotten millions stashed in its banks, the Tunisian people could lose it allF

Tunisia could lose millions of dollars stashed in Switzerland by the family of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a senior official said Saturday. The funds are currently frozen by Swiss authorities but a deadline to claw back funds ends midnight on Tuesday and...

Turkey’s growing influence in the Maghreb, from drones to soap operasF

By Hamza Mekouar: Turkey is boosting its influence across North Africa, analysts say, intervening militarily in war-torn Libya and using "soft power", trade and investment in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. While Turkish-made drones have won battles in Libya, its soap...

Arab tyrants and their cronies: how Tunisia’s Ben Ali clan ended in utter misery and disgraceF

Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like empire that once pocketed a fifth of national private sector profits, are scattered across the world. Few have faced justice. Here is an overview. Ben Ali...

Tunisia: Celebrating one decade of protest and a whole lot more to comeF

By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli:  Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success story -- but celebrations will be muted when it marks on Thursday one decade since protesters ousted its autocratic leader. The revolutionary...

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