Tunisia

As Channel 4 News asks you who you think changed the world the most in 2011, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman makes the case for a young fruit and vegetable seller from Tunisia.

Crowds of well-wishers mark the first anniversary of a desperate act of self-immolation that lit the flame of revolution across North Africa.

The Islamist Ennahda party wins Tunisia’s first elections since the Arab Spring, amid protests in the centre of the country.

The moderate Islamic Ennahda party has claimed victory saying it has won over 40 per cent of votes. Channel 4 News gauges reaction from the first democratic election of the Arab Spring.

Tunisian voters are pouring into polling stations as the country holds its first free elections since the Arab Spring uprising.

As the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is confirmed, Channel 4 News looks at where this leaves Libya as well as the progress in the rest of the “Arab Spring” nations.

Normal life is returning to Tripoli, blogs Lindsey Hilsum, back in Libya to research a book on recent events in the country. Petrol is now plentiful and the population’s attention has turned to the national team’s performance in football’s African Nations Cup.

Tunisian ex-president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife have been sentenced in absentia to 35 years in jail and have been ordered to pay 40 million pounds in fines.

Al-Qaeda releases a tape said to feature Osama bin Laden praising this year’s uprisings in the Middle East and calling for more Muslim “tyrants” to be toppled.

As turmoil rages in the Middle East, the Duke of York’s business connections are beginning to unravel.

Jonathan Rugman has witnessed four uprisings – Tunisisa, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain – in less than four months. And when the dust finally settles, he sees democracy on the horizon in the Arab world.

Jonathan Rugman has witnessed four Arab uprisings in less than four months and believes the fight for democracy will eventually prevail.

Alex Thomson blogs from the border between Tunisia and Libya on the miracle of the modern telephone and the stories of those who have fled Gaddafi’s nation.

Alex Thomson returns to the Libya Tunisia border to find that the situation has changed in the past three days: it is not chaotic or catastrophic – but it’s not comfortable.

Shots have been fired into the air at the border of Libya and Tunisia. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says around 20,000 people are waiting at the border.