Fitch downgrades Tunisia rating amid instability – BusinessWeek

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ABC NewsFitch downgrades Tunisia rating amid instabilityBusinessWeekFitch Ratings downgraded Tunisia's credit grade to one notch above junk status on Wednesday, citing uncertainties over its stability and economic policy following the popular upris…

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2.7 million could flee Libya in weeks ahead – National Post

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

The Guardian2.7 million could flee Libya in weeks aheadNational PostNearly 85000 people have flooded across the Libya-Tunisia border in the last two weeks. Many are waiting to be evacuated and have nowhere else to go. Two weeks into Libya's revolt …

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Tunisia, site of the first Arab revolt, seeks a way forward – Washington Post

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

Financial TimesTunisia, site of the first Arab revolt, seeks a way forwardWashington PostMeanwhile, the economy is in such dire straits that on Wednesday, Fitch downgraded its rating on Tunisia to one notch above junk-bond status. Some fear that if the…

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Charities launch crisis appeal – The Press Association

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

Charities launch crisis appealThe Press AssociationUnicef has also launched a crisis appeal which aims to raise £4.5 million to meet the humanitarian needs of women and children in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. The charity has teams on the ground in Tunis…

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IBM Haruna: don’t copy Egypt, Tunisia – The Nation Newspaper

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

IBM Haruna: don't copy Egypt, TunisiaThe Nation Newspaper"Let us all resolve to work with INEC towards achieving free, fair and credible elections and let our country move forward, not backwards like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and others." A f…

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Zapatero praises "exemplary" Tunisia uprising; offers aid – Monsters and Critics.com

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

Telegraph.co.ukZapatero praises "exemplary" Tunisia uprising; offers aidMonsters and Critics.comTunis/Madrid – Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero praised Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution as an example for the Arab world and…

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Fitch Cuts Tunisia to BBB-, Negative Outlook on Uncertainty – Bloomberg

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

Global Arab Network – English NewsFitch Cuts Tunisia to BBB-, Negative Outlook on UncertaintyBloombergFitch Ratings downgraded Tunisia's long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to BBB- from BBB as well as lowering the long-term local curre…

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Report: Thousands of foreign workers remain stranded in Libya – Monsters and Critics.com

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

Bikya MasrReport: Thousands of foreign workers remain stranded in LibyaMonsters and Critics.comThey have been stranded in the eastern coastal city of Benghazi and along the western border with Tunisia. 'Thousands upon thousands of foreign workers r…

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How Gadhafi has managed to stay in power: 5 theories – The Week Magazine

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

FOX 4 NewsHow Gadhafi has managed to stay in power: 5 theoriesThe Week MagazineDespite an uprising more intense than those in Egypt and Tunisia, the Libyan leader is still at the top. How has he survived so long? The secret to Libyan leader Moammar Gad…

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Tunisia frees last political prisoners: activist – AFP

March 2nd, 2011 Comments off

CTV.caTunisia frees last political prisoners: activistAFPTUNIS — Tunisia freed Wednesday the last of its political prisoners under an amnesty granted after the fall president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January, a prisoner rights activist said. The re…

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