Spotlight LIBYA TUNISIA Issue dated 27/01/2011

Ghannouchi’s troubled ties with Tripoli

It could prove a difficult test for Rached Ghannouchi, historical leader of Tunisia’s moderate Ennahda Islamist party banned since 1989. The party’s theologian is planning to return to Tunisia in coming days now that his political movement has once again [...] (536 words)

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