I've not done a lot of research into Tunisia, but will try to today. Interesting,to say the least. 
Tunisia Revolution News (Latest Updates)
Tunisia has been rocked by riots recently over unemployment and corruption, thought to have been sparked by the suicide of a young man who could not find a job and was barred from selling fruit without a permit.
The unrest culminated today with the ouster of president and strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announced on state television that he had taken control of the country.
A cable released by WikiLeaks called Tunisia a "police state" and criticized Ben Ali for being out of touch with the people. This has fueled references to the current protests as a "WikiLeaks Revolution."
You can follow live updates of events in Tunisia here.
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Today 10:56 AM ET Tunisia Swears In New President
AP reports: Soldiers and police have exchanged fire with assailants in front of Tunisia's Interior Ministry amid unrest after the longtime president was ousted.
Associated Press reporters saw the shootout Saturday that left two bodies on the ground on a big square in central Tunis. It was not clear whether the two were dead or injured, or who they were.
Snipers could be seen lying down on top of the ministry's roof.
The exchange came soon after Tunisia swore in a new interim president on Saturday. The country has been grappling with looting, deadly fires and widespread unrest after protests forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee on Friday.
The interim president ? Fouad Mebazaa, the former president of the lower house of parliament ? ordered the creation of a unity government that could include the opposition, which had been ignored under President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's 23 years of autocratic rule. Ben Ali fled the country Friday for Saudi Arabia following a popular uprising and deadly riots.
Today 9:26 AM ET Tunisia Uprising Shocks Arab Leaders
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Tunisia Revolution News (Latest Updates)
Tunisia has been rocked by riots recently over unemployment and corruption, thought to have been sparked by the suicide of a young man who could not find a job and was barred from selling fruit without a permit.
The unrest culminated today with the ouster of president and strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announced on state television that he had taken control of the country.
A cable released by WikiLeaks called Tunisia a "police state" and criticized Ben Ali for being out of touch with the people. This has fueled references to the current protests as a "WikiLeaks Revolution."
You can follow live updates of events in Tunisia here.
live blog
Oldest Newest
Today 10:56 AM ET Tunisia Swears In New President
AP reports: Soldiers and police have exchanged fire with assailants in front of Tunisia's Interior Ministry amid unrest after the longtime president was ousted.
Associated Press reporters saw the shootout Saturday that left two bodies on the ground on a big square in central Tunis. It was not clear whether the two were dead or injured, or who they were.
Snipers could be seen lying down on top of the ministry's roof.
The exchange came soon after Tunisia swore in a new interim president on Saturday. The country has been grappling with looting, deadly fires and widespread unrest after protests forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee on Friday.
The interim president ? Fouad Mebazaa, the former president of the lower house of parliament ? ordered the creation of a unity government that could include the opposition, which had been ignored under President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's 23 years of autocratic rule. Ben Ali fled the country Friday for Saudi Arabia following a popular uprising and deadly riots.
Today 9:26 AM ET Tunisia Uprising Shocks Arab Leaders
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Word that Tunisia's entrenched leader had fallen from power sent shockwaves across the Middle East. Arabs have been transfixed by Tunisians' rare display of grass-roots power and its culmination Friday in the ouster of the leader in one of the region's most authoritarian countries. Such an overthrow would be the region's biggest in decades, since Iran's 1979 overthrow of the U.S.-backed shah and mass demonstrations that toppled Sudan's government in the 1980s.Activists and opposition figures in the wider Middle East say Tunisia's popular protests and clashes with police forces have broken a psychological barrier in other countries in the region with authoritarian regimes, political repression and a lack of jobs and opportunities. Friday's demonstration in Tunis, the largest public gathering in a generation, "may well go down in history as the Arab equivalent of the Solidarity movement in the Gdansk shipyard," said Rami Khouri, an Arab political commentator.
