• L’insécurité est-elle devenue le problème n° 1 de la Tunisie ?
    Despite Signs of Progress, Security Issues Rise in Tunisia - NYTimes.com
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/world/africa/despite-signs-of-progress-security-issues-rise-in-tunisia.html?ref=world

    TUNIS — At the end of a 20-hour gun battle with the police in a northern borough here, a bearded man emerged from the besieged house, his rifle above his head. Residents watching from a street corner saw him kneel, lay down the weapon and reach for his vest. Then a government sniper shot him dead.

    Seven gunmen and one member of the National Guard were killed in the firefight, the most serious clash with armed insurgents in the Tunisian capital since a popular uprising began three years ago. It also stood as a security alert for the new government as it welcomed the French president, François Hollande, and other foreign dignitaries on Friday to celebrate the adoption of a new Constitution.

    Security has become the most pressing issue in Tunisia as the country tries to move forward with its democratic transition and rescue its still declining economy, which depends heavily on tourism and foreign investment. Both have fallen since the revolution of 2011 that overthrew the country’s longtime dictator, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.