A security force personnel fires tear-gas shells from a roadblock towards demonstrators on a street in Tunis on January 14, 2011.
AFP
Demonstrators waving Tunisian flags march to celebrated the fall of the longtime Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Paris.
Keystone
Demonstrators throw stones at police during clashes in Tunis on January 14.
Keystone
Demonstrators gather in front of the interior ministry on January 14 during a protest against Ben Ali in Tunis.
Keystone
A photo taken from Tunisian TV shows Ben Ali giving a speech on January 13 in which he said he had ordered his security forces to stop firing on anti-government demonstrators, as a wave of nation-wide protests intensified.
AFP
Smoke billows from a French and a Tunisian supermarket after a fire was allegedly started by rioters near Tunis.
Keystone
Tunisian lawyer and human rights activist Radhia Nasraoui gestures towards a Tunisian policeman as she asks for the release of her husband Hamma Hammami following his arrest, one day after Ben Ali's address to the nation on January 14.
Keystone
Riot police officers detain a protestor during clashes in Tunis.
Keystone
A torn banner of Ben Ali is seen in the centre of Tunis.
Keystone
Two veiled women talk in front of a burnt mall in the Cite Ettadhamen district, several kilometres from the center of Tunis, where rioters burnt vehicles and attacked government offices late on January 12.
AFP
A Tunisian demostrator injured in clashes with security forces lies on the ground on January 9 in Regueb, near Sidi Bouzid. Protests sparked by high youth unemployment spread from the central town of Sidi Bouzid to other parts of the country.
Keystone
A photograph made available on January 15 showing demonstrators during a protest against Ben Ali a day earlier, after Ben Ali's address to the nation.
Keystone
Around 1,000 protesters demonstrate against Ben Ali in Geneva on January 15, 2011. Ben Ali had left Tunisia the previous night.
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Tunisian policemen take position on the rooftop of a building in Tunis.
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Tunisians walk away after buying bread in Tunis on January 16. The security situation was beginning to stabilise in Tunisia as the army continued to patrol the streets and a new unity government was being assembled.
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Tunisia in the throes of upheaval.
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After weeks of unrest at the start of 2011, deposed president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia and the country takes on a new unity government. (Photos: AFP, Keystone)
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