Looting, riots, chaos engulf Tunisia

pressherald.com

January 16 2011

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and ELAINE GANLEY The Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia – Looting, deadly prison riots and street chaos engulfed Tunisia on Saturday, a day after mass protests forced its strongman to flee. A new interim president was sworn in, promising to create a unity government that could include the long-ignored opposition.

Will ‘Tunisia effect’ undermine other regimes?

McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD, Iraq – In a historic winter of discontent in the Arab world, the uprising that forced the president of Tunisia from power has instantly reverberated across a region with no shortage of equally unpopular despots.

« To the Tunisian people: Thank you! » exclaimed an editorial Saturday in Al Quds Al Arabi, an independent pan-Arab newspaper.

While Arabs took to the streets — and many more to Facebook and Twitter — to celebrate the region’s first true popular revolution in decades, political activists expressed hope for a domino effect in the Middle East. The ouster of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali is the clearest indication that change is coming to a regional status quo marked by authoritarian rulers, systematic corruption, bulging youth populations and an endemic shortage of decent jobs. Read more…

~ par Alain Bertho sur 16 janvier 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, riots, الشغب