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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....
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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)
Libyan crisis mapped here. (h/t phil S 33)
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) - Libyan rebels lay down terms for ceasefire
Libyan rebels will agree to a ceasefire if Muammar Gaddafi pulls his military forces out of opposition-held cities and allows peaceful protests against his regime, according to an opposition leader.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the opposition's interim governing council based in Benghazi, spoke during a joint press conference on Friday with Abdelilah Al-Khatib, the UN envoy. Al-Khatib is visiting the rebels' de facto stronghold of Benghazi in hopes of reaching a political solution to the crisis embroiling the North African nation.
Abdul-Jalil said the rebels' condition for a ceasefire is "that the Gaddafi brigades and forces withdraw from inside and outside Libyan cities to give freedom to the Libyan people to choose and the world will see that they will choose freedom".
(h/t MarryM 4/1) -
Gaddafi regime admits attempts to talk to west
The regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has initiated a concerted effort to open lines of communication with western governments in an attempt to bring the conflict in the country to an end.
As fighting continues in Libya, the country's former prime minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi told Channel 4: "We are trying to talk to the British, the French and the Americans to stop the killing of people. We are trying to find a mutual solution."
Obeidi's indication of the increased effort to make contact with western governments came as opposition leaders in the rebels' de facto capital of Benghazi laid out their own conditions for a ceasefire.
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GENERAL ANALYSIS
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1)
Special report: The West's unwanted war in Libya
It is a war that Barack Obama didn't want, David Cameron didn't need, Angela Merkel couldn't cope with and Silvio Berlusconi dreaded.
Only Nicolas Sarkozy saw the popular revolt that began in Libya on February 15 as an opportunity for political and diplomatic redemption.
Whether the French president's energetic leadership of an international coalition to protect the Libyan people from Muammar Gaddafi will be enough to revive his sagging domestic fortunes in next year's election is highly uncertain.
But by pushing for military strikes that he hopes might repair France's reputation in the Arab world, Sarkozy helped shape what type of war it would be. The road to Western military intervention was paved with mutual suspicion, fears of another quagmire in a Muslim country and doubts about the largely unknown ragtag Libyan opposition with which the West has thrown in its lot.
ALGERIA
(h/t angry marmot 3/31) -
AnchorAlgerian PM: there is no political crisis
Algeria's prime minister on Wednesday denied the country was in a political crisis sparked by unrest in the Arab world but acknowledged public anger over unemployment and a lack of housing.
Algeria, one of the biggest suppliers of natural gas to the European Union, has seen a wave of strikes and protests over the past few months, though they have yet to coalesce into the kind of uprising that toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.
BAHRAIN
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Crackdown continues, opposition and human rights groups say
While regional attention is riveted by the ongoing unrest in Libya, Syria and Yemen, the government of Bahrain has been left in relative peace by the international community to continue its crackdown against the anti-government protest movement there, human rights groups say.
"The last few nights they been raiding houses and beating and arresting people," Nabeel Rajab, the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, told Babylon & Beyond, adding that approximately 400 people are either missing or in custody.
"Some people were also arrested at checkpoints controlled by thugs brought in from other Arab and Asian countries -- they wear black masks in the streets," Ragab said.
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Bahraini police arrested my brother for blogging
At 3am on Wednesday morning they came to arrest my brother, Mahmood, at his home. His son Arif witnessed the arrest by Bahraini police who claimed to have a warrant. His crime was nothing more than trying to promote dialogue between the protesters and government of Bahrain.
Mahmood al-Yousif is a prominent blogger back home. They call him the Blogfather because his was one of the first such websites in Bahrain. Since people started demonstrating against the government on 14 February he had been consistently advocating dialogue and peaceful protest.
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
U.S. gets tough on Bahrain
Washington called on Bahrain to advance the political process, stressing there can't be a security solution to ongoing turmoil.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she was deeply alarmed by the escalation of violence in the country. A March 16 decision by military forces to storm the nation's hospitals was "shocking and illegal conduct," she said.
Bahrain, a key U.S. ally in the region, is facing a Shiite uprising against the country's ruling Sunni minority.
COTE D'IVOIRE
(h/t mimi 4/1) -
Fierce fighting spreads in Ivory Coast showdown
Fierce fighting spread across Abidjan on Friday as troops loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo fended off attacks by forces supporting Alassane Ouattara's rival claim to the presidency.
The heaviest clashes centered around the state television station, which went off the air after it was attacked by pro-Ouattara forces overnight.
The boom of heavy weapons fire rang out constantly from near Gbagbo's residence and presidential palace, both of which have come under attack, as well as two major military bases -- turning Ivory Coast's main city into a war zone.
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Ivory Coast: 'Heavy fighting' near Gbagbo residence
There has been heavy fighting in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, between forces loyal to the UN-recognised president, Alassane Ouattara, and supporters of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.
Witnesses have reported hearing intense gunfire near Mr Gbagbo's residence, while Mr Ouattara's supporters say they have taken control of state television.
His government earlier closed Ivory Coast's borders and declared a curfew.
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 4/1) - 'Save the Revolution' day begins in Tahrir, Egypt
Thousands are already gathered in Tahrir Square to answer the call sent out to re-take the streets and “save the revolution”.
Many more are expected to join after Friday prayers, when thousands should be heading to the square from mosques and churches across Cairo. Egypt’s January 25 revolution put forward several demands in addition to the ending of Mubarak’s rule but many have not yet been met, activists say.
The call to restart demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was put forth by several political groups, including the Revolution Youth Coalition which has been criticised for its absence from the political scene.
(h/t angry marmot 4/1) - 'Political forces greet Constitutional Declaration with mixed reactions
The interim Constitutional Declaration issued by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces on Wednesday has provoked a wide range of reactions from political forces and parties, with some expressing approval and others calling it a "catastrophe."
Among those criticizing the interim constitution was the 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition, which declared that it failed to represent the basis of a truly democratic state. Wafd Party Vice President Ali al-Selmy echoed this sentiment. “It does not say whether the political system of the country is presidential or parliamentary,” he said.
IRAN
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Iranian Opposition: Police Arrest 7 at Funeral of Mousavi's Father
An Iranian opposition website says security forces have arrested at least seven people attending a funeral for the father of reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Mousavi's website Kaleme.com says Iranian security personnel deployed in large numbers outside Mousavi's home in the capital, Tehran, as mourners gathered for Thursday's funeral.
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 JustJennifer 4/1) -
Prospects for reform in Jordan depend on attitude of king
LOYALISTS TRAVEL in car convoy by night, flying the lone star flag of Jordan while reformers try to choreograph protests offensive to no one.
There is a reformist rising in Jordan but no uprising aimed at toppling the Hashemite monarchy, established nearly a century ago in the wake of the first World War. While the demands of reformists are the same as those in Tunisia and Egypt – free elections, political pluralism and an end to corruption – Jordan’s communal composition and domestic circumstances differ from those of the north African nations blazing a new political path.
The reform movement here was launched before the Egyptian uprising – not by internet activists, as in Egypt, but by tribesmen and workers in the provincial town of Madaba. After demonstrating there, they came to the capital, Amman, so the government might take notice of their complaints and were joined by other disaffected elements
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) - Jordan's pro-king supporters deny link to protest violence reported by Human Rights Watch
Supporters of Jordan's king on Thursday denounced reports alleging they were behind bloody clashes that left one person dead in the worst violence in three months of protests in this key U.S. ally.
Clashes between protesters demanding reforms and government supporters also left 120 injured last Friday in a central Amman square after security forces charged the two sides, which had been pelting each other with stones.
Protests in Jordan have generally been smaller than those in other Arab nations and have not sought the ouster of the country's leader, King Abdullah II, but rather are calling for a series of reforms, including the popular election of the prime minister.
KUWAIT
(h/t angry marmot 3/31) - Kuwaiti cabinet resigns
The Kuwaiti government submitted its resignation on Thursday, State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Rudhan al-Rudhan told state news agency KUNA.
"The Kuwaiti cabinet submitted its resignation today at an extraordinary meeting," Rudhan said. The move comes after MPs filed petitions to question the deputy premier for economic affairs and the foreign and information ministers, all senior members of Kuwait's Al-Sabah ruling family.
(h/t angry marmot 3/31) - Kuwait's cabinet resigns to avoid questions
Kuwait's cabinet has submitted its resignation to avoid parliament quizzing ministers, parliamentary sources have said.
Politicians had asked to question three ministers, all members of the ruling al-Sabah family, in the latest in a series of challenges to the government by parliament that have delayed important economic reforms.
"The ministers submitted the resignation to the prime minister, who will refer it to the emir," a parliamentary source told Reuters on Thursday.
LEBANON
(h/t JustJennifer 3/30) - UN urges quick transition in Lebanon
The United Nations called Tuesday for Lebanon to move forward on forming a new government, nearly three months after the fall of Saad Hariri's Western-backed administration.
"Throughout the region, enormous shifts and upheavals are underway, and at the same time Lebanon remains high on the agenda at the Security Council," UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams told reporters.
"We look forward for an early formation of a government which will help address the priorities of the Lebanese people, both in terms of political and security stability, but also in terms of social and economic requirements."
MAURITANIA
(h/t JustJennifer 3/30) -
AnchorProtests spur Mauritania into dialogue
They started their campaign as a simple interaction on a social networking site. Now Mauritania's youth-based movement is making their demands all the more strident, drawing supporters across the country.
They "didn't necessarily know each other, but shared the same feeling that things have to change," according to group member Mohamed Salem Ould Khallih.
MOROCCO
(h/t ninkasi23 3/30 ) - Moroccan Teachers to strike after violent protests
Teachers in Morocco will stage a two-day nationwide strike starting on Tuesday after two recent demonstrations for better benefits ended in violence, union officials said on Monday.
(h/t ninkasi23 3/30 ) - Moroccan government appeals to teachers to protest peacefully
Thousands of disgruntled teachers are expected to descend on Rabat, Morocco's capital, on Wednesday to protest the outcome of an earlier demonstration -- in which they claim 65 colleagues were seriously injured in a battle with police
Morocco's Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui, who has not made a public statement about violence in Saturday's protest, told CNN through a spokesman that the claims from the teachers of casualties were exaggerated: "In reality only 17 were actually hurt, as most who went to hospital were just going there to get a doctor's certificate," the spokesman said. "It's normal in Morocco that protesters exaggerate the figures of those hurt, or actual incidents."
OMAN
(h/t weasel 3/30) -
AnchorOman detains anti-government protesters
Oman has detained several anti-government activists who took part in protests that started last month in a northern industrial city.
The demonstrations in Sohar - inspired by uprisings that have gripped the Arab world - have pressed for more jobs, pay hikes, and a greater public role in the Gulf country's politics.
Oman's Attorney General says several protesters who were part of a sit-in in Sohar are in police custody as of early Tuesday. It didn't clarify how many were detained.
Thousands of workers and pro-reform activists have staged strikes and sit-ins across Oman, including the capital Muscat and Sohar.
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 angry marmot 3/30) - Al-Azhar scholar criticizes Saudi edict banning protests
A Saudi Islamic edict forbidding protests drew criticism from an Al-Azhar scholar Tuesday.
Sheikh Gamal Qotb, former head of the Al-Azhar fatwa committee, said peaceful protests help promote virtue and prevent evil.
Al-Azhar is the highest religious institution in the Sunni Muslim world. Qotb's criticism of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars edict comes as the Saudi government seeks to keep protests at bay.
(h/t lotlizard 3/30) -
Anchor
AnchorSaudi Women Inspired by Fall of Mubarak Step Up Equality Demand
Activists among Saudi Arabia’s women, who can’t drive or vote and need male approval to work and travel, are turning to the type of online organizing that helped topple Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to force change in a system they say treats them like children.
The “Baladi” or “My Country” campaign is focused on this year’s municipal elections, only the second nationwide ballot that the absolute monarchy has allowed. The election board yesterday said women will be excluded from the Sept. 22 vote. Another group, the Saudi Women’s Revolution, citing inspiration from the Arab activism that grew into revolts against Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, is pressing for equal treatment and urging international support.
(h/t lotlizard 3/30) -
AnchorFrom Saudi Arabia: Thanks, Muammar!
The civil war in Libya has been an unexpected gift to Saudi Arabia: It has diverted the eyes of the world away from how the House of Saud is dealing with its own version of Arab Spring.
The oil-rich kingdom is pursuing a two-pronged strategy.
The first prong is to provide citizens with financial incentives designed to quell deep frustrations with the regime and keep people off the streets.
See lotlizard's diary
The situation of Shiites in Saudi Arabia
SYRIA-new
(h/t angry marmot 4/1) - Syria opposition to protest after Assad speech
Syrian opposition movements are readying Friday for protests after Muslim prayers, their first since President Bashar Al-Assad thwarted their hopes for greater freedoms in a long-awaited speech.
"The real cause, the ultimate cause, is that we have been... beaten in our own streets, silenced, for more than 40 years," said one activist, who preferred to remain anonymous.
"But the most pressing cause, in today's rallies, is the president's speech, which dashed all our hopes and expectations," he told AFP. "We have been hearing the same speech for decades."
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Thousands call for freedom in Syria, 3 killed in unrest
Syrian security forces killed at least three protesters in a Damascus suburb on Friday, witnesses said, as thousands turned out in pro-democracy marches despite a reform gesture by President Bashar al-Assad.
Activists said Syrians took to the streets after Friday prayers in the capital Damascus, Banias on the coast, Latakia port and the southern city of Deraa, where the unprecedented protests challenging Assad's 11 years in power began in March.
Witnesses in the Damascus suburb of Douma said the three killed were among at least 2,000 people who chanted "Freedom. Freedom. One, one, one. The Syrian people are one," when police opened fire to disperse them from Municipality Square.
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) - Assad orders review of Syrian laws
Facing a massive protest movement demanding reform, Syria's president has set up committees to look into the deaths of civilians during nearly two weeks of unrest and replacing decades-old emergency laws.
Thursday's move appears to be a carefully designed attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to show he will not be pressured to implement reform, instead, he will make changes at his own pace.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Thursday that investigative committees have been set up to look into possible causes in the deaths of protesters, including the 1962 census in east Syria, which resulted in many Kurds being denied nationality.
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Syria's Assad takes steps towards reforms
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, facing a wave of protests demanding greater freedoms, took steps on Thursday towards addressing grievances including lifting emergency law and granting disenfranchised Kurds rights.
Assad, who drew international criticism for failing to spell out reforms in his first public comments on Wednesday since unrest swept Syria, also ordered an investigation into protest deaths in the flashpoint city of Deraa and the port of Latakia.
TUNISIA
(h/t JustJennifer 3/31) -
AnchorPost-revolution Tunisia is on right path - PM
Tunisia must not stray from the "righteous path" and could show the way for other Arab countries inspired by its popular revolt that ended a long autocratic rule, Prime Minister Beji Caid Sebsi said on Wednesday.
Tunisians are particularly proud that their "Jasmine Revolution", as the revolt has been called, inspired similar uprisings in Egypt and other Arab countries.
President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled by mass protests on Jan. 14 after 23 years in power and fled to Saudi Arabia. Interim authorities struggled however to restore stability in the North African country, but this month laid out a plan for a transition to democracy.
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 JustJennifer 4/1) -
I don't like this phrase "forgotten conflict",' Konstantina Isidoros tells me. 'The primary concern here is that the Western Sahara conflict is very simple to solve but no one is solving it. It simply perpetuates its "forgotten-ness" and major newswires miss the point that the Western Sahara is actually a "hot" geopolitical potato that has the US and France fighting over regional superiority and valuable untapped natural resources, with Spain squirming between the two.'
Konstantina Isidoros is a doctoral researcher at Oxford University, but lives most of the year in the Sahara desert where she does anthropological and political science research, with a special focus on the Western Sahara region.
Morocco has occupied the more fertile and resource-rich three-quarters of the Western Saharan territory for the past 35 years, and brutally clamped down on the indigenous people, the Saharawis, within this occupied territory that dare dispute their rule, however peacefully. Many of those Saharawis that do not live in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara therefore live in the camps near Tindouf in the Algerian desert that they fled to in 1975 when Morocco invaded their country.
YEMEN
(h/t angry marmot 4/1) - Huge demos split Sanaa
Huge rival protests split Yemen's capital as security forces deployed in unprecedented strength for another Friday showdown on the streets between President Ali Abdullah Saleh's backers and foes.
"I pledge... to sacrifice myself for the people, with my blood and with everything I hold dear," Saleh said, thanking his supporters inside and outside Yemen in the face of two months of escalating protests calling for his ouster.
Despite fears of an outbreak of violence, tens of thousands of pro-regime supporters waving flags and banners packed squares around Sanaa, passing through checkpoints set up by security forces kitted with guns and batons.
(h/t JustJennifer 4/1) -
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh digs in as rival protests rock Sana'a
Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has signalled he has no plans to step down as huge rival demonstrations swept through the capital, Sana'a.
Saleh's display of defiance, in which he said he would sacrifice everything for his country, followed weeks of youth-led anti-government protests, as well as a string of defections by generals last week that analysts say had him on the brink of resignation. But on Friday Saleh appeared newly emboldened, telling supporters he would "guard their country" and they had "nothing to fear".
"Rule in Yemen cannot be changed by force. Yemen is a democratic nation and means for change are available through elections only," Saleh told a crowd of half a million government loyalists, many of them tribesmen from the surrounding countryside, assembled outside the president's mosque.
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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
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7 Put those responsible for stealing the country's money and other acts of corruption on trial
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