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Revolts sweep North Africa and the Middle East
Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:30
By Mathew K JallowTunisian dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, whose iron-fisted rule began in 1987, long before the majority of the Tunisian youth who toppled his regime were born, ended abruptly two weeks ago. Cowardly as all dictators are, he fled to Saudi Arabia at the dead of night with his family in tow, leaving behind an angry nation in turmoil. Dictator Ben Ali did not know what hit him, when popular revolt spread like wildfire across Tunisia, to bring to an end his twenty-three years of dictatorship.
But the Tunisia revolution was only a harbinger of things to come. The revolution that began on the streets of Tunis, soon spread across the Middle East where rulers entrenched in absolute power, began to lose control to more popular revolts. In Egypt, embattled Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power since 1986, was forced to dismiss his entire cabinet, but protesters want him to leave. So far riots continued all across Egypt, claiming the lives of more than forty. In Cairo, every police station was burnt and looted as police officers fled for safety.
In the Arabian peninsular, another spontaneous popular revolt, calling for the overthrow of the regime, brought hundreds of thousands of Yemenis out on the streets, in an unprecedented revolutionary zeal demanding the overthrow of the regime.
Elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle-East Arab dictators watch nervously preparing to fight or flee to save their lives from an angry population who want revenge.
If what is going on North Africa is any indication, Sub-Saharan African dictators better brace of some bad times ahead as people are emboldened to demand freedom, justice and liberty and the end of tyranny. This is a lesson to Yahya Jammeh and his ilk. Your days are numbered. Prepare for the worst. Nothing is permanent on this earth. Below are youtube videos of the popular uprisings across the Arab world.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/29/egypt-protest-video-montage_n_815822.html
When the people are ready to demand liberty from their oppressors, no power on earth, no military on the universe can stop them.
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