Tunisia purges judiciary of corrupt, Ali-aligned magistrates
Tunisia's justice ministry has sacked 81 magistrates over suspicions of graft and their links to ousted president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's regime.
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After the Arab Spring: The winter of Africa's discontent
While the last 18 months have been marked by popular risings across Africa, Jean-Jacques Cornish reminds us that this isn't all that new.
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Yemen's rebel who threw his Games
Ali Khousrof -- judo fighter -- has been training for the London Olympics, even though he was shot in the abdomen during Yemen's Arab Spring uprising.
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World Press Freedom Day to focus on 'new voices'
A key theme for this year's World Press Freedom Day will be how to preserve and deepen the free speech gains symbolised by the Arab Spring.
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Over 3.5-million people displaced by conflicts in 2011
International monitors say conflicts, including the uprisings in the Arab world, last year forced 3.5-million people to flee within their country.
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Egypt's revolution graffiti brings down barricades
Egypt's activists have returned to the scene of deadly clashes in Cairo, determined to keep their revolution alive, armed with paint brushes.
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Estranged in a strange world
North African writers Bahaa Taher and Ibrahim al-Koni describe the alienation of the Western gaze
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Arab Spring led to the fall of the first wives' club
Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.
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US to assist in rebuilding Tunisian economy
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged that Washington would help Tunisia rebuild its economy and democracy as it struggles with reforms.
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Egypt presidential vote to be early June
Egypt's first presidential election since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year will be held in the first week of June.
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