Le Renouveau

Le Renouveau was first published on 20 March 1988^[1] as a continuation of another French language daily L'Action which was one of the official media outlets of the now-defunct Neo-Destour Party.^[2][3][4] The publisher of Le Renouveau was Dar El Amal company and the paper was based in Tunis.^[1]

Le Renouveau was the organ of the ruling party, RCD, which was the successor the Neo-Destour Party.^[5][6] RCD also owned another newspaper entitled El Hurriya.^[7][8]

Mohamed Nejib Ouerghi served as the editor-in-chief of the paper.^[9] It frequently featured articles to legitimate the rule of the President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.^[10] The paper ceased publication in 2011 following the removal of Ben Ali.^[6]

In 1985 the estimated circulation of the paper was 13,500 copies whereas it was 33,000 copies in 2003.^[4]