Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has distributed $3.7-billion in aid to countries touched by the Arab Spring, most of it to Egypt and Jordan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
International monitors say conflicts, including the uprisings in the Arab world, last year forced 3.5-million people to flee within their country.
North African writers Bahaa Taher and Ibrahim al-Koni describe the alienation of the Western gaze
Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.
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/ 25 February 2012
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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/ 19 February 2012
Egypt’s first presidential election since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year will be held in the first week of June.
Widely acknowledged as the greatest living Arab poet, the Syrian-born Adonis is a fiercely independent thinker.
A year after Libya’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, its militias continue to hold influence with corruption, violence and anarchy.
Syria’s president, who is fighting an Arab Spring-inspired revolt, has called for a referendum that may end nearly 50 years of single-party rule.
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/ 15 February 2012
When Moncef Marzouki, a dissident transformed into Tunisia’s president, paid a visit to Algeria, Tunisian flags flew from lamp posts in his honour.
Algerian artist Aghiles Issiakhem’s charcoal portraits of his 20-something peers shows they feel there’s little to be upbeat about.
A year after it began, eight Arab writers reflect on what became known as the Arab Spring.
Thousands have flocked to Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of the Egypt uprising, amid angry debate over whether another revolt is needed.
An attempt to return home by Madagascar’s deposed president Marc Ravalomanana has been thwarted in the air by Malagasy ground control.
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/ 18 January 2012
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Tunisia has marked the first anniversary of its ouster of despot Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a protest that gave birth to the Arab Spring.
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/ 11 January 2012
The World Economic Forum has warned anger with inequality — evident from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring — risks setting back globalisation.
The symbolic Doomsday Clock is creeping closer to the apocalypse as scientists maintaining the device moved it one minute closer to the zero hour.
Youths in Kasserine, a town at the forefront of Tunisia’s uprising a year ago, have now heckled the people their revolution brought to power.
Millions of Arabs dream of attaining democracy in 2012, aiming to build on gains from the deadly protests that ousted two dictators.
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/ 23 December 2011
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> spoke to Libyan novelist Hisham Matar in an attempt to understand what happened and where things are heading in North Africa.
The internet is taking us to places without boundaries. But we won’t know what it all means until we get there.
Gabon’s voters went to the polls in legislative elections expected to hand an easy victory to President Ali Bongo’s ruling party.
One year on from the Arab Spring uprising following a death in Tunisia, it spread to Egypt, Libya and Syria. The youth revolt has truly gone global.
Liberia’s President and Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has said that she was eager to see a woman in the White House.
From Charlie Sheen to the Arab Spring, Twitter has revealed the most talked about #hashtag topics for 2011, with events in Egypt leading the pack.
The drama in 2011 seemed to unfold on an almost daily basis, with scandals, disasters and political unrest rolling in one after the other.
Morocco’s Justice and Development Party has claimed victory in a parliamentary election that should produce a stronger government with more power.