Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Support for Kais Saied’s rule-by-decree is slipping as Tunisians feel wallets empty out

Arab Spring answered few of the hopes it raised in the country of its birth a decade ago

In Tunis, where gatherings are banned, many think the risk to a fragile democracy is worth it

A date plantation seized in 2011 is set to become the country’s first land-occupying collective to negotiate community management of state property

Successful political change without economic prosperity is a poor and incomplete recipe for real change

Across the Arab world, poverty, injustice, conflict and authoritarian rule are still rife

Former president (91) was jailed following 2011 popular uprising but freed in 2017

Grounds for hope amidst turmoil

Strongman fled in 2011 as people rose in revolt that inspired uprisings across Middle East

Politician became country’s first freely elected president in decades

Real risk of complacency about country’s democratic path

Protests erupted last Monday across Tunisia, triggered by tax and price hikes imposed on January 1st

Rioting in several cities sparked by anger at measures agreed with IMF for €2.4bn loan

What Manning did was to help shine a light on how wars like that in Iraq help fuel fundamentalism