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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Tunisia update news and video Jan.2011
Tunisia has been under a state of emergency since Friday, which bans any public gatherings and imposes a strict dusk-to-dawn curfew.

After being formally sworn into office to take over from Ben Ali, 78-year-old speaker of parliament Foued Mebazaa said that all Tunisians "without exception" would now be able to take part in national politics.

"A unity government is necessary in the greater national interest," Mebazaa added, as the Constitutional Council declared that a presidential election should be held in two months' time.

The exiled head of the main Tunisian Islamist party, which was banned by Ben Ali, told AFP that he now planned to return to his homeland.

"The Tunisian intifada has succeeded in collapsing the dictatorship," said Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Ennahdha party, speaking from London.

Tunisia, now has a new interim president and he is Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, who in a televised announcement that he will make sure that all the political, economic, law and social reforms promised will be implemented on urgent basis. This is the first time that an Arab nation stood against their leader and forced him to quit his reign.









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