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Libya is, justifiably, capturing our attention. Will the intervention help without taking ownership of the revolution from the Libyan people? Will it even help turn the tide or will there be a long, drawn out stalemate of a civil war? How long will international forces be there? What exactly will they and won't they do? It's all very anxiety-ridden and we will continue to bear witness. While doing so, please remember to give some of your witnessing time to Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, etc. We post updates for them all when we can. Syria is particularly worrisome today....
Libya-new
The full text of UN Resolution 1970 on Libya
The full text of UN Resolution 1973 on Libya
President Obama's letter to Congress regarding the commencement of operations in Libya found here. (h/t greenbird)
Al Jazeera Libyan live blog found here. (h/t jnhobbs)
UK Telegraph Libyan live blog found here. (h/t bee tzu)
BBC Libyan live blog found here. (h/t greenbird)
The New Yorker Dispatches from Libya found here. (h/t suejazz)
Diary by DK's SpecialKinFlag on NATO assuming responsibility for NFZ here
Libyan crisis mapped here. (h/t phil S 33)
Diary by DK's Explorer8939Follow
Libya: Nice speech, but Gaddafi is winning again
(h/t JustJennifer 3/29)
World powers discuss Libya's future
Global powers are meeting in London to discuss military action in Libya and to plan a post-Gaddafi future for the north African nation.
Opening the talks on Tuesday, David Cameron, the British prime minister, told the parties there were "better days ahead for Libya" as he said coalition forces would continue their no-fly zone over the country.
"Today I believe should be about a new beginning for Libya - a future in which the people of Libya can determine their own destiny, free from violence and oppression," he said.
"But the reason for being here today is that the Libyan people cannot reach that future on their own."
(h/t Lawrence 3/29)
Libya staying sane in insane situations
I know I am back in the gilded cage that is the Tripoli international media centre when the Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister cracks something approaching a joke.
“Today I have good news for you,” he says as the press conference begins at 10pm (this bizarre timing is so normal now, if anything a little early, that nobody seems to comment on it any more).We journalists all look up with keen interest. Is the minister about to give us a new headline? A stunning reversal on the battlefield, perhaps? A victory by pro-Gaddafi forces against rebels in the east?
(h/t bee tzu 3/29)
No evidence that Libya is fulfilling its obligations to protect civilians, UN chief says
The United Nations has seen no evidence of a ceasefire in Libya or of any steps by the country’s authorities to fulfil their obligations under Security Council resolutions aimed at protecting civilians in the strife-torn North African country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
“We have serious concerns about the protection of civilians and respect for human rights and international humanitarian law,” Mr. Ban told Member States during an informal closed meeting of the General Assembly, which he briefed on his recent travels. “I call, once again, for full respect for international humanitarian law and human rights by all those involved in the fighting.”
(h/t Lawrence 3/29) -
U.S. finds no organized Al Qaeda presence in Libya opposition, officials say
Despite fears that Islamic extremists may be playing a hidden role in the rebellion against Moammar Kadafi, the U.S. intelligence community has found no organized presence of Al Qaeda or its allies among the Libyan opposition, American officials say.
A U.S. intelligence-gathering effort that began shortly after anti-Kadafi forces started seizing towns in eastern Libya last month has not uncovered a significant presence of Islamic militants among the insurgents.
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GENERAL ANALYSIS
(h/t lotlizard 3/28) -
Brutal crackdowns chill the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring, which began with an exuberant burst in Tunisia and Egypt and swept up protesters from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, is running into a brutal counter-revolution by hard-line regimes.
Syria was the latest country to respond to demands for political reform with a lethal crackdown last week. In Libya, Moammar Gadhafi's regime is still using deadly force to hold on to power despite a weeklong U.S.-led military campaign.
In Bahrain, a minority-led government invited its Arab neighbors to join a violent crackdown on demonstrators that has inflamed sectarian tensions. In Yemen, talks over replacing a U.S.-backed dictator who has pledged to resign stalled over the weekend, with the regime warning that chaos would ensue if he leaves.
(h/t suejazz 3/28) - Unrest in Syria and Jordan Poses New Test for U.S. Policy
Even as the Obama administration defends the NATO-led air war in Libya, the latest violent clashes in Syria and Jordan are raising new alarm among senior officials who view those countries, in the heartland of the Arab world, as far more vital to American interests.
Deepening chaos in Syria, in particular, could dash any remaining hopes for a Middle East peace agreement, several analysts said. It could also alter the American rivalry with Iran for influence in the region and pose challenges to the United States’ greatest ally in the region, Israel.
In interviews, administration officials said the uprising appeared to be widespread, involving different religious groups in southern and coastal regions of Syria, including Sunni Muslims usually loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The new American ambassador in Damascus, Robert Ford, has been quietly reaching out to Mr. Assad to urge him to stop firing on his people.
As American officials confront the upheaval in Syria, a country with which the United States has icy relations, they say they are pulled between fears that its problems could destabilize neighbors like Lebanon and Israel, and the hope that it could weaken one of Iran’s key allies.
ALGERIA
(h/t suejazz 3/24 ) - In Algeria, Popular Protests Still Simmer Beneath Surface
Algeria is simmering with the same toxic mix of economic and political discontent that has exploded into revolts across the Arab world. But another effort to stage an anti-government protest in front of the main post office in downtown Algiers failedIt was announced on Facebook as a youth march that would rally thousands. But only a few dozen showed up, quickly dispersed by riot police who easily outnumbered them.
Nalia Hamish, 31, vented her frustration. She said every time the protesters try to gather, the police break them up. They want the freedom to express themselves politically - starting with the right to protest.
BAHRAIN
(h/t lotlizard 3/29) -
Bahrain opposition says 250 detained, 44 missing
Bahrain's leading Shi'ite opposition party Wefaq said on Monday 250 people have been detained and 44 others went missing since a security crackdown crushed weeks of protests, more than double last week's figures.
Earlier this month, Bahrain's Sunni rulers, the al-Khalifa family, imposed martial law and called in troops from fellow Sunni-ruled Gulf neighbors, including top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, to quell weeks of unrest during pro-democracy protests led by mostly Shi'ite demonstrators.
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Bahrain parliament accepts resignation of opposition Shiite lawmakers over crackdown
Bahrain’s parliament on Tuesday accepted the resignations of 11 lawmakers from the Shiite opposition, a sign that the political and sectarian crisis in the island nation is deepening..
The state-run Bahrain News Agency reported the 40-member house approved the resignations of 11 Al Wefaq legislators.
They and seven other lawmakers from the party submitted resignations last month over the deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in the island Gulf nation. BNA said parliament postponed deliberations on the six other resignations.
See lotlizard's diary
Bahrain after "Tien An Manama"
COTE D'IVOIRE
(h/t jnhobbs 3/29) -
Ivory Coast fighting in Duekoue traps people at church
Some 30,000 people are trapped in a church compound in Ivory Coast as fighting worsens in the west of the country, a missionary has told the BBC.
The priest at a Roman Catholic mission in Duekoue said people had been arriving there with gunshot wounds.
Forces loyal to UN-backed President-elect Alassane Ouattara are on the offensive on several fronts against the army loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo.
(h/t jnhobbs 3/29) -
Ivory Coast: Pro-Ouattara forces 'to seal border'
Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's UN-backed president-elect Alassane Ouattara say they have launched an offensive aimed at sealing the border with Liberia.
The ex-rebels have swept down from their northern powerbase and claim to have taken the western town of Duekoue.
They accuse rival leader Laurent Gbagbo of importing fighters from Liberia.
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decembersue has an excellent diary here. Good reading for those interested in this story.
DJIBOUTI
(h/t suejazz 3/24 ) - Djibouti asks opposition to 'refrain' from rally
The Djibouti government Thursday asked opposition parties to "refrain" from holding a meeting they had planned for Friday to coincide with the start of the electoral campaign.
The Horn of Africa country will hold presidential elections, which the opposition plans to boycott, on April 8. The only two candidates are outgoing president Ismael Omar Guelleh and independent candidate Mohamed Warsama Ragueh, the former head of the Constitutional Council.
EGYPT
(h/t angry marmot 3/29) - Military council announces new party formation law
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces announced new legislation today to oversee the formation of political parties in Egypt. The legislation will come into effect on Tuesday.
Major general Mamdouh Shahin, a member of the ruling military council, stressed that the law prohibits religious-based parties.
“A judiciary committee will be formed to look into the procedures of launching parties and make sure all applicants fulfil the new terms,” Shahin told a press conference Monday.
“One of these terms is that religious-based parties are inadmissible.”
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(h/t angry marmot 3/29) - Opposition slams new parties law as 'superficial'
The Supreme Council of Armed Forces this afternoon announced a new law on political parties, which furious opposition members slammed as instigating only "superficial" changes.
“They just made some superficial, cosmetic changes to the old law,” said Yehia Fekry, one of the founders of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, currently under construction. “They simply reproduced the old laws and we reject that completely.”
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See Richard Lyon's diary
Egypt: Revolution Or Reaction?
IRAN
(h/t JustJennifer ) - Iran 'frees 80-year-old opposition head'
Ebrahim Yazdi, the 80-year-old head of a banned liberal party who was arrested last October 1, was released from prison on Sunday, state news agency IRNA reported.
Yazdi, a former foreign minister, was arrested in the city of Isfahan along with several other members of the Freedom Movement of Iran.
He was also detained in June 2009 during a wave of unrest which followed the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the opposition in the Islamic republic said was the result of massive fraud.
IRAQ
(h/t JustJennifer ) - Police officer killed in N. Iraq demonstration
The mayor of a town in Iraq's Kurdish self-ruled region says one policeman was fatally shot and ten others wounded during a demonstration.
JORDAN
(h/t suejazz 3/27 ) - At least 1,000 attend burial of Jordan protester
Around 1,000 people gathered on Sunday for the burial of a Jordanian protester who died after clashes with government supporters, an AFP photographer said.
Mourners chanted "God is greater," and 'There is no God but God and the martyr is the beloved of God," as they laid to rest Khairy Jamil Saad, in Sahab cemetery, southeast of Amman.
The chants also included: "We sacrifice our souls and blood for you."
Islamist leaders, trade unionists and members of the March 24 youth movement attended the burial, as police deployed around the cemetery.
On Friday, Saad, 55, died and 160 people were injured as police broke up a pro-reform protest camp set up near the interior ministry after 200 government supporters threw stones at 2,000 young demonstrators.
On Saturday his family said it will not bury him unless they receive "an official apology."
"But we decided to bury him today after contacts with the authorities," his son Nasser, 34, told AFP without elaborating.
He has said his father died after "receiving several blows to his body" but the state coroner said an autopsy proved he died of heart failure.
KUWAIT (note: this update relates to Kuwait's involvement in Bahrain)
(h/t suejazz - 3/23) - Libya action: Arab support very strong, Cameron says
Arab support for the military operation over Libya is "very strong", Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
He told the House of Commons Kuwait and Jordan would take part, and that Qatar already had planes in action.
Mr Cameron was speaking as British forces resumed patrols in the skies over Libya, with Tornado and Typhoon jets seen taking off from their bases.
The coalition operation to protect civilians from Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces is in its fifth day.
'Saving lives'
The RAF's commander of the air operation, Air Vice Marshal Greg Bagwell, said on Wednesday that the Libyan air force "no longer exists as a fighting force", and the allies could operate "with near impunity".
LEBANON
(h/t suejazz - 3/23) - Bahrain suspends flights to Lebanon amid strained relations
Beirut - Bahrain's state-run Gulf Air on Wednesday suspended all flights to Lebanon in a move to protest statements made by the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement against authorities in the kingdom.
'We were informed that Gulf Air will suspend all flights to Lebanon starting March 23,' a source at Beirut's international airport told the German Press Agency dpa.
Authorities in Bahrain on Tuesday asked citizens not to travel to Lebanon. Earlier this month, the Gulf Air suspended flights from Manama to Iran and Iraq, in similar moves.
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaking at a rally in Beirut Saturday, referred to events in Bahrain as a 'special injustice'.
MAURITANIA:
(h/t mali muso) - Mauritania protesters want better salaries, lower food prices
Hundreds of people took to the streets after Friday afternoon prayers, demanding more jobs and decent food prices. What was initially meant as a peaceful protest, ended with protesters throwing stones at security forces and setting fire to car tires.
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Protesters distributed bottles of fresh water to security forces surrounding them, while the authorities continued to deny any access to Blokat square. Demonstrators prevented Mauritania TV from covering the protests, fearing the station would use the footage for political propaganda. Protesters earlier complained about police women pretending to be journalists. The videos were reportedly used by intelligent forces to identify youth leaders and facilitate future arrests.
MOROCCO
(h/t greenbird 3/26) -
Moroccan Monarchy’s Sacredness
An Obstacle to Democracy
Yes, Mohammed VI’s March 9 speech was indeed historic. But no, it is not because it announced a major constitutional reform. If this speech is to be marked, it is because, by delivering it, a Moroccan King surrendered to popular pressure – a spectacular first since the country’s independence in 1956. This alone demonstrates that history, in Morocco, is already in the making.
(h/t JustJennifer 3/26) - Morocco teachers say beaten by police during rally
Moroccan police clashed with teachers demonstrating for better benefits on Thursday, seriously injuring several people in the capital Rabat, participants said.
Various groups have stepped up protests in recent weeks, emboldened by successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Tens of thousands gathered in cities across the kingdom on Sunday in one of the largest anti-government protests in decades.
(h/t JustJennifer3/26) - Moroccan King’s Speech Long on Reform Promises, Short on Details?
King Mohamed VI has sometimes been called “the King of the Poor” for the reforms he has instituted in that country since inheriting the throne from his father, King Hassan II, in 1999. He instituted wider media freedoms and allowed media to report on corruption; he released political prisoners and amended the country’s penal code to ban torture; he acknowledged the government’s responsibility for thousands of so-called disappearances and other past human rights abuses; and he compensated victims and their relatives.
However, these gestures were not enough to guarantee Morocco’s immunity to the wave of discontent that has swept through North Africa since the beginning of the year. Inspired by Tunisia and Egypt, Moroccan youth began February 20 to stage street protests of their own.
OMAN
(h/t suejazz - 3/23) - Protesters in Oman camp out at a government complex, demand 'corrupt' ministers resign
MUSCAT, Oman - Protesters in Oman have set up a tent camp at a government complex in the capital Muscat, saying they will not leave until several ministers they accuse of corruption leave.
Hundreds of demonstrators Wednesday demanded the ouster of the justice, housing and labour ministers and the attorney general.
Oman's ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said has made sweeping Cabinet shake-ups since the start of strikes and sit-ins, staged by thousands of workers and pro-reform activists in the strategic Gulf nation.
Protests for jobs, pay hikes, and a greater public role in politics started last month. They were inspired by anti-government demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt.
Oman shares control of the Gulf waterway that carries 40 per cent of the world's oil tanker traffic with Iran.
QATAR
(h/t lotlizard 3/26 ) -
Why Qatar seems immune from the Arab world's revolutionary fever
Qatar, which has a population of around 1.5 million, approximately 200,000 of whom are Qatari citizens, has an unemployment rate of half a percent. Its GDP per capita of $145,300 is the highest in the world and its 2010 growth rate was 19.4 percent, also ranking it No. 1 in 2010.
Its comparably small, docile population allows Sheikh al-Thani to operate a rentier state: Qataris don't pay income tax, and they're provided with free utilities and health care. Education is also heavily subsidized, with Qatari students often receiving full scholarships to attend universities. In exchange for these perks, Qataris allow Sheikh al-Thani to rule unopposed.
The country's migrant laborers, primarily from Southeast Asia, are frequently underpaid and abused. The controversial Sponsorship Law, which other Gulf countries have recently abolished, prohibits them from leaving the country without permission from their sponsor, essentially dictating a relationship of indentured servitude. Southeast Asian laborers have virtually no political voice in Qatar. If they were to take to the streets and protest, they'd be deported
SAUDI ARABIA
(h/t jnhobbs 3/29) -
Saudi Arabia prints 1.5m copies of religious edict banning protests
Saudi Arabia is printing 1.5m copies of an edict by religious scholars outlawing protests in the conservative kingdom as un-Islamic, the state news agency said.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and a major US ally, is an absolute monarchy that does not tolerate any form of public dissent.
It managed to stifle an attempt to stage a mass protest on 11 March with a large security presence on the streets.
See lotlizard's diary
The situation of Shiites in Saudi Arabia
SYRIA-new
Al Jazeera Syrian live blog found here.
(h/t JustJennifer 3/29)) -
Syrian government resigns after protests sweep country
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accepted his government's resignation on Tuesday after nearly two weeks of pro-democracy unrest that has posed the gravest challenge to his 11-year rule.
But the move was unlikely to satisfy protester demands since the cabinet has little authority in Syria, where power is concentrated in the hands of Assad, his family and the security apparatus.
Tens of thousands of Syrians held pro-government rallies on Tuesday, awaiting a speech in which Assad was expected to announce a decision on lifting emergency laws that have served to crush dissent for almost 50 years.
(h/t JustJennifer 3/29) -
Syria arrests four lawyers during protests: activists
Syrian authorities have arrested four lawyers who supported unprecedented protests demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption, rights defenders said on Tuesday.
Their arrest came as President Bashar al-Assad, facing the biggest challenge to his rule from protests that spread from the southern city of Deraa, promised to study granting more freedom to Syrians, who have been ruled by the Baath Party since it took power in a 1963 coup and imposed emergency law.
One of the lawyers, Hussein Issa, was arrested on Sunday outside the Palace of Justice in the Syrian capital, the activists said.
(h/t jnhobbs 3/29) -
Syria unrest: Pro-Assad rallies in Damascus and Aleppo
Tens of thousands are demonstrating in cities across Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad, who has faced a wave of unrest in recent days.
The pro-Assad rallies come in response to a government appeal on Monday.
President Assad is widely expected to announce a raft of changes in the next day or two in response to the unrest, which has left dozens of people dead.
Correspondents say the government is expected to resign later on Tuesday for failing to meet people's demands.
TUNISIA
(h/t suejazz 3/28 ) - Tunisian president names new interior minister-TAP
Tunisia's interim president Fouad Mebazza has named a new interior minister, the official TAP news agency said on Monday.
It said Habib Sid will replace Farhat Rajhi as interior minister. It said Mebazza made the move on "the proposition of the prime minister" Beji Caid Essebsi
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (note: relates to the situation in Libya)
(h/t suejazz 3/25 ) - UAE commits 12 planes to Libya despite Bahrain
The United Arab Emirates, a key US ally, said it has committed six F-16 and six Mirage fighters to help enforce the no-fly zone over Libya, despite reservations linked to unrest in Bahrain.
"UAE participation in the patrols will commence in the coming days," Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan announced, quoted by state news agency WAM late on Thursday.
"In support of UN Resolution 1973, the UAE is fully engaged with humanitarian operations in Libya," he said.
"As an extension of those humanitarian operations, the UAE air force has committed six F-16 and six Mirage aircraft to participate in the patrols that will enforce the no-fly zone now established over Libya."
A former UAE air force commander said earlier this week that his country had delayed its military deployment because of disagreements with the West over the unrest in Bahrain.
Major General Khaled al-Buainnain, quoted in Abu Dhabi's The National newspaper, said the disagreement stemmed from the conviction of Arab states in the Gulf that Iran had stirred the troubles in Bahrain.
WESTERN SAHARA
(h/t suejazz ) - Western Sahara: ‘We only want our country’
Western Sahara is the last country in Africa awaiting decolonisation.
Invaded by Spain in the late 19th century, mass mobilisations in the early 1970s heralded the birth of the modern independence movement.
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YEMEN
(h/t jnhobbs 3/29) -
Yemenis blame Saleh as security deteriorates
Yemeni protesters demanding an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule said on Tuesday they would insist he leave power soon, blaming him for violence that has raised U.S. fears of chaos that could benefit militants.
Explosions at an arms factory on Monday killed more than 100 people in a southern town where Islamists seemed to have driven out government forces, a reminder of the instability that Saleh's Western allies fear in the poorest Arab state.
(h/t JustJennifer 3/29) -
Activists urge U.N. rights council to meet on Yemen
A coalition of global campaign groups on Monday urged the U.N. Human Rights Council to call a special session on what they called a rights crisis in Yemen.
The coalition, including non-government organisations (NGOs) from sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt, spoke out as Syria, also currently the scene of violent suppression of protesters, set out its case for election to the 47-nation council.
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Our Egyptian brethren articulated what people around the region are fighting for, though variations to the theme may exist from country to country. banner held by protesters and translated to English:
1 The departure of Mubarak
2 An end to the current Parliament
3 An end of the state of emergency
4 The creation of a national united government
5 A parliament elected by the people to modify the constitution and run the presidential elections
6 Put those responsible for the killings on trial
7 Put those responsible for stealing the country's money and other acts of corruption on trial
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