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Christine Petré

Christine Petré is an independent journalist, researcher and analyst based in Tunisia. Follow her work at www.christinepetre.com or @ChristinePetre.

Libyan soldiers manning a military outpost, stop a car at a checkpoint in Wadi Bey, west of the city of Sirte, which is held by Islamic State militants, February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny - RTX28A55

Keeping the Islamic State in check in Libya

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

Why is it so hard to reintegrate Libyan fighters into society?

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

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UN arms Libyan women with gun-safety knowledge

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

A handout picture released by the Tunisian Presidency shows Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali (2nd L) looking at Mohamed Al Bouazzizi (R), during his visit at the hopital in Ben Arous near Tunis on December 28, 2010. Mohamed Al Bouazzizi, a 26-year-old university graduate, who was forced to sell fruit and vegetables on the streets, doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on December 17, which left him in a serious condition with severe burns. Days of rioting in Tunisia by mostly jobless

Five years on, have things changed in Tunisia?

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

How Tunisia’s moderate imams are seeking to reclaim Islam from extremists

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

Hafhed Caid Essebsi (C), son of Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, arrives for a meeting with leaders of the Nidaa Tounes party in Tunis, Tunisia November 3, 2015. Tensions between two wings of Nidaa Tounes, whose name means Call of Tunis, spilled over into violence last week when a party meeting descended into open fighting with fists and sticks. A split within Nidaa Tounes could trigger political instability in the country that launched the first of the Arab Spring revolutions in 2011. Thirty-two of Ni

Nidaa Tunis tensions come at crucial period for Tunisia

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

Tunisian soldiers and police patrol the area of Mount Salloum near Algeria's border in Kasserine, Tunisia July 4, 2015. Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday, saying the Islamist militant attack on a beach hotel that killed 38 foreigners had left the country "in a state of war". Picture taken July 4, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1J484

Tunisia's fragile security

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

Illegal migrants disembark as they arrive in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, June 10, 2015. Tunisia's navy rescued more than 350 illegal migrants off its coast and was searching for hundreds more on Wednesday after they tried to sail from neighbouring Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the local Red Cross said. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1G08U

Tunisia looks to welcome refugees, migrants with new asylum law

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

Libyan locals give 'dignified end' to unidentified refugee victims

Christine Petré

Christine Petré