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The Arab Weekly
January 29, 2018
Tunis - Political parties are looking to back independent candidates in Tunisia's upcoming municipal elections but strict regulations and fear of government ... The Tunisian Constitution, approved after the 2011 uprising that toppled former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, expanded the prerogative of localÃâà...
BBC News
November 22, 2014
Beji Caid Essebsi, the 87-year-old leader of Nidaa Tounes (Tunisia's Call), is already the favourite to win after his two-year-old party came first in the October ... Figures from the Ben Ali era standing include former bank governor Mustapha Kamel Ennabli and former Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane.
Middle East Eye
November 1, 2014
Twenty-seven candidates are standing for president in Tunisia on 23 November, including the outgoing head of state, a football club chief, former ministers and a magistrate as ... He was a minister under Habib Bourguiba, the father of Tunisian independence, and briefly headed parliament under Ben Ali.
Middle East Eye
October 1, 2014
Other candidates running in the November election include Kamel Morjane, Ben Ali's last foreign minister, as well as another former minister under the dictator, Mondher Zenaidi. Also in the race are magistrate Kannou Kalthoum, former central bank governor Mustapha Kamel Ennabli and party leaders andÃâà...
Foreign Policy
June 4, 2014
In the end, the majority of legislators voted against the exclusion law, giving a much-needed push to Tunisia's halting process of political reconciliation — a process that has been aptly described by Kamel Morjane, a centrist politician, as the sine qua non for a successful transition. That boost is muchÃâà...
The Guardian
May 13, 2014
Other names on the shortlist are Kamel Morjane, the former Tunisian foreign minister, and Javier Solana, the Spanish politician who has previously served as Nato secretary general and the EU's foreign policy chief. Brahimi, who is 80, has been in the job since September 2012. He had threatened to resignÃâà...
The Guardian (blog)
September 21, 2013
5.47pm: The Tunisian prime minister, Mohammed Ghannouchi, says in a TV address that president Ben Ali is "temporarily unable to exercise his duties", according to Reuters. The prime ... A national unity government involving a key opposition figure is possible, foreign minister Kamel Morjane has said.
BBC News
October 22, 2011
Achieving that will help Tunisia move forward and allow Tunisians to enjoy their new-found democratic state. ... We believe that there are people qualified and worthy of representing the Tunisian people and have the ability to write a new constitution, which is in ... The only person I like is Kamel Morjane.
New York Times
January 16, 2011
TUNIS — New battle lines appeared to take shape in traumatized Tunisia on Sunday as the military backed the nascent interim government in what state media portrayed as a fight against security forces loyal .... Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the Tunisian foreign minister, Kamel Morjane.
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