Between authoritarian crack-down and internal crisis, can Ennahda rise again?

In the months after the 2011 Tunisian uprising, the Islamist party Ennahda emerged from the shadows of repression to win a comfortable victory in the first free elections, dominating in urban Tunis almost as much as it did in rural Tataouine. The party soon became the most important actor in the democratic transition. But now, in the face of a sharp authoritarian reversal, Ennahda faces its most serious crisis in decades.

Migrations : Les damnés des frontières

La Méditerranée se transforme en cimetière, tandis que l’Europe entend externaliser la gestion de ses frontières, en soudoyant les États à ses portes méridionales et orientales. Les migrants dépouillés de leur humanité sont ainsi réduits à des chiffres macabres. Les journalistes du réseau Médias indépendants sur le monde arabe vous proposent une série d’articles exposant le prix exorbitant payé par les populations concernées, à leur corps défendant.

Denigration, Kais Saied’s political weapon of choice

Kais Saied is particularly generous when it comes to spouting off vague accusations. Ever loyal to his habitual fallback, conspiracy theories, the Tunisian president is quick to point a finger at certain “parties” without naming them, to throw verbal jabs and employ sarcasm as captured in videos diffused on social media. With all this verbal jousting, who has time to respect the rule of law anyway?