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World Service,14 Jan 2022,49 mins

Secret audio sheds light on Tunisia's Ben Ali’s frantic last hours

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In exclusive, never heard before recordings believed to be of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the ѿý reveals the anxious telephone calls that helped seal the fate of his 23-year dictatorship and spark a wave of revolutions across the Middle East. Why Japan is betting on railguns for missile defence. And France presses the EU to agree sanctions against Mali, in line with ECOWAS.

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