Tunisia Bound

Podcast: Tunisia faces a chaotic situation, as economic woes could derail political progressF

   Transcript Tunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic impact on the country on many fronts.  But the system put in place after the 2011 Jasmine Revolution, which was praised around the world as paving the way...

Tunisia: Growing unrest in Tunisia over unemployment and poor economyF

Demonstrations have spread in Tunisia's interior to demand work and investment in the traditionally marginalised region. The latest protests in the country's centre and south come after residents of the southern city of Tataouine reached a November 7 deal with the...

Tunisia slides into repression after jailing of blogger Wajdi MahouechiF

Human Rights Watch accused Tunisia on Tuesday of "regressing" on free speech after a blogger was sentenced to two years' prison over a Facebook post deemed offensive to the judiciary. Wajdi Mahouechi (photo), 31 and a frequent commentator on social media, had...

The unfinished Arab spring: buckle up for the next roundF

The Jasmin Revolution is Far from Over: buckle up for the next round. An opinion by Arezki Daoud Back in the early 1990s, most, if not all analysts, looked at the Algerian uprising of 1988 and concluded that the “revolution was dead and over.” The Algerian regime...

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