Posts tagged: independence movements

Jan 15 2011

Tunisia in Transition

President Ben Ali of Tunisia has fled to Saudi Arabia, abandoning power amidst riots that were fueled by anger related to unemployment and apparently commenced with the suicide of a young man who came to grief with officialdom because he was selling fruit without a license.  Ben Ali came to power in 1987.  Tunisia gained independence from France in 1956.

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