Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Tunisia approves new constitution, appoints government

Tunisia's national assembly approved the country's new constitution on Sunday in one of the last steps to establishing full democracy three years after the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Unable to form new government, Tunisia PM quits

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigned on Tuesday after failing to replace a government pulled apart by acrimony between his Islamist allies and their secular opponents.

Tunisia ex-dictator Ben Ali receives new life sentence

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is in exile in Saudi Arabia, was given a life sentence in June for the killings of protesters in the south.

Ex-Tunisia president gets 20 years in absentia

A Tunisian military court has convicted the former president in absentia of inciting violence and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.