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Tunisia: divisions over Ennahdha

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The Islamist Ennahdha party held its congress in Tunisia this week, with less religion and more economic talks on the agenda. Next, in Libya, the country's first free election in decades saw a liberal coalition beating Islamist parties. But is it enough to bring a return of stability and peace? And in Morocco, street vendors appear to be getting more leeway from authorities, all because of a single symbolic act from a peddler in Tunisia that sparked the Arab Spring.

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