Tunisian president, 1st democratic leader, dies at 92
Published on: Wednesday 24 July 2019
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader and a symbol of the generation of Tunisians who shook off French rule in the 1950s, died Thursday. He was 92. In a hasty ceremony hours after Essebsi died at a military hospital in Tunis, the leader of […]
