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Long-suffering people pin hopes on authoritarian president who has yet to deliver a single economic policy
One demonstrator dead and more than 200 people arrested in popular unrest
Demonstrations over the lack of jobs have swept the country but there are no short-term solutions
Things haven’t yet changed much in the African nation, but there is a feeling that everything is to play for
The Arab youth have defied clichés and clampdowns to fracture an adamantine order, writes Roula Khalaf
Tensions are growing in Egypt and Tunisia, writes Roula Khalaf
State agencies had a stranglehold on virtually all the economy, write Saifedean Ammous and Edmund Phelps
Army seeks to restore order after Ben Ali seeks exile in Saudi Arabia
No to looting, no to destruction and no return to dictatorship
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