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Libyan protesters form leadership (AFP)
LIBYAN (AFP) Protest leaders have established a transitional “national council” in cities seized from Muammar Gaddafi, as world leaders call on him to quit and protesters close in on Tripoli. The chaos engulfing the oil-rich North African state of 6.3 million has fanned fears that Gaddafi’s hold on power could descend into civil war as [...]
Protesters force out Tunisian PM
TUNIS (AFP)— Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resigned Sunday and was replaced by Beji Caid Essebsi, a former minister, after anti-government protests left five people dead over the weekend. Security forces again clashed with protesters in Tunis demanding the removal of some ministers of Ghannouchi’s interim government before the premier announced his resignation.
“The acts of violence and looting, the unrest and the fires on Habib Bourguiba avenue in Tunis on Saturday 26 have left five people dead,” said a ministry statement quoted by TAP news agency.
Parts of Tripoli defy Gaddafi’s rule (Reuters)
By Maria Golovnina and Ahmed Jadallah TRIPOLI, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Poor neighborhoods of the Libyan capital Tripoli openly defied Muammar Gaddafi on Saturday as his grip on power after 41 years of rule looked increasingly tenuous in the face of nationwide revolt. Security forces had abandoned the working-class Tajoura district after five days of [...]
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An Ethiopian uprising is now or never
By Teodros Kiros Machiavelli, one of the architects of political thinking spoke convincingly about virtu and fortuna. Virtu is skill, the ability to be skillful and flexible, when time requires it; Fortuna on the other hand, is the tuning of one’s senses to the language of the right time. We must carefully listen to Fortuna [...]
Wind of change: No dictator is safe
By Hassen Hussein The unprecedented street protests sweeping North Africa and the Middle East have toppled dictators in Tunisia and Egypt. Three more undemocratic rulers— Yemen’s strongman Ali Saleh Abdella, the monarchy in Bahrain, and Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi— are precariously hanging to ropes suspended above a raging river of protests — and those ropes [...]
Libya’s Gaddafi and EPRDF (Eskinder Nega)
By Eskinder Nega from Addis Ababa Strange as this may sound, there is a mainstream in the unsanctioned confederacy of dictators. Whether of the present times or from the distant past, the mainstream dictator is usually decidedly understated, more often than not a loner, eccentric in private habits, and almost as a trademark, lives in [...]
Some Reflections on the Current Popular Uprisings in the Arab World
By Messay Kebede
While events of historic proportions are occurring in the Arab world, the question that haunts Ethiopians is whether similar uprisings are possible in present-day Ethiopia, that is, whether the inspiring impact of events in Arab countries would be strong enough to provoke unrests and demonstrations in Ethiopia.