As usual we were looking for trouble and being journalists – let’s face it – relieved to find it. As usual these days in Tunis the trouble was brewing all around the Interior Ministry in the center of town, blogs Alex Thomson.
Alex Thomson returns to Tunisia to find there is still a lot of unfinished business in the country which triggered the Arab uprisings.
Jon Snow
Expect the unexpected – no one predicted the unrest that has swept the Middle East, writes Jon Snow. So no one really knows where it could strike next – Oman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
Tunisia’s revolution sparked the unrest across the Middle East. Now, as the country’s prime minister resigns, Alex Thomson reports on new protests in Tunis where one man said “we don’t have liberty”.
Country by country Channel 4 News unpicks the key social media elements of revolt throughout the Middle East and assesses how internet communication helped awaken online youth activism.
In the desert close to the frontier with Libya the buses unload their cargos at the new camp which has sprung up in the last 24 hours. Run by the Tunisian army it is there to register and process people coming over the border from western Liby
I ask another car overfilled with Tunisian, Egyptian and Algerian guest-workers what things are like and the driver tells me: “If you go now from the border into Libya towards Tripoli, for the first 60km things are ok. But after that, well, it just gets more and more dangerous.”
The scent of revolution has moved to Libya, but after people power brought down the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, Channel 4 News asks two Middle East experts what is happening in those countries now.
Police fire tear gas to disperse protests in Bahrain and Iran as unrest spreads following the Egyptian revolt. In Cairo protesters are urged to return to work following President Mubarak’s downfall.
Police fire tear gas to disperse protests in Bahrain and Iran as unrest spreads following the Egyptian revolt. In Cairo protesters are urged to return to work following President Mubarak’s downfall.
US Vice-President Joe Biden calls for “prompt” action in Egypt as fears increase that the ongoing protests pose an escalating threat to the Middle East peace process.
Foreign Secretary William Hague arrives in Tunisia – where the unrest in the Middle East began – to encourage development in the country as protests inspired by events there continue in Egypt.
The roots of the current uprising lie in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. Channel 4 News looks at how the political revolt there has roared across the Middle East to Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan.
King Abdullah of Jordan sacks his Cabinet and appoints a new Prime Minister in a bid to head off more unrest – but while this has worked before, it might not this time, an expert tells Channel 4 News.
Will the unrest that has unseated governments in Tunisia and Jordan infect other Arab nations? An expert tells Channel 4 News the protests will spread, but whether they succeed is another matter.