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#Tunisia: Military court absolves most Ben Ali officials
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Tunisian military police hold back family members of those killed during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, at a trial of former senior members of ousted president #Zine_al-Abidine_Ben_Ali's regime, at a military court in #Tunis, on April 12, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Fethi Belaid) Tunisian military police hold back family members of those killed during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, at a trial of former senior members of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s regime, at a military court in Tunis, on April 12, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Fethi Belaid)

Trials for the killings of demonstrators during the Tunisian revolution have officially ended with the Tunisian military court announcing its verdicts. The most significant of which are the life (...)

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Ah ben tiens, les dictateurs font des réserves de bouffe, maintenant.

Authoritarian governments start stockpiling food to fight public anger - Telegraph
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Commodities traders have warned they are seeing the first signs of panic buying from states concerned about the political implications of rising prices for staple crops.

However, the tactic risks simply further pushing up prices, analysts have warned, pushing a spiral of food inflation.

Governments in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have recently made large food purchases on the open market in the wake of unrest in Tunisia which deposed president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Resentment at food shortages and high prices, as well as repression and corruption, drove the popular uprising which swept away his government.