Naceur El Gharbi d’Assurance-Maladie". In January 2010, he was appointed as Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity, and Tunisians Living Abroad under Ben Ali. Naceur El Gharbi Naceur El Gharbi was the Tunisian Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity, and Tunisians Living Abroad under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Naceur El Gharbi was born in Kairouan, Tunisia in 1949. He received a Masters in Public Law, and he is a graduate of the École nationale d'administration. In 1974, he started his career in the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs. In 1988, he was appointed as Governor of Gabès. From 2000 to 2004, he
Timeline of the Yemeni Revolution (January – 2 June 2011) Yemenis protested in Sana'a's streets since mid-January 2011 to demand a change in government, though the protests in the south of the country were more aggressive. The protests "appeared to be the first large-scale challenge" to Saleh's rule; protesters compared him to the ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, citing government corruption and the poor economy of Yemen. Protests occurred in many towns in both the north and south of Yemen initially against Yemeni governmental proposals to modify Yemen's constitution, rejecting the proposals as insufficient, and over unemployment and economic conditions. Protests on 20 January included thousands of