Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has died at the age of 92. He was the country's first democratically elected leader, coming to power in the wake of the Arab Spring revolution. Essebsi was ...

Tensions across the religious-secular fault lines in the country could not be reconciled, and freely elected leaders failed to deliver on the 2011 uprising’s cry for bread, freedom and dignity. By ...

The death of former Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi last week marks the end of a generation of politicians that came of age with the country’s independence from France, writes Kamel Abdallah ...

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Tunisians bid farewell to their president Beji Caid Essebsi last Saturday in a grand procession from Carthage Palace to the Jellaz Cemetery in the capital Tunis where he was buried. Essebsi had passed ...