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Arab spring News : Jan 24, 2012

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Arab Spring and U.S. reforms make Cuba a tourist hotspot
Reuters
By Jeff Franks | HAVANA (Reuters) – The Arab Spring, changes in US policy and economic reforms at home are driving a tourist rush that is giving communist-run Cuba one of its best seasons ever and stretching its ability to accommodate demand.
Does Africa need an Arab Spring?
BBC News
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s longest-serving and most autocratic leaders – and that is exactly what residents of some Arab countries have been fighting against. Yet an African Spring in the exact fashion of the Arab Spring would

BBC News
America and the Arab Spring
Jerusalem Post
Much has been written since the fall of Mubarak about the impact on Israel of the misnamed Arab Spring. Events like September’s mob assault on Israel’s embassy in Cairo and the murderous cross-border attack on motorists traveling on the road to Eilat
Rights Group Says Dictators Cracking Down, In Fear Of ‘Arab Spring‘ Redux
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
The new HRW report, which focuses largely on the Arab Spring, also says Azerbaijan’s human rights record has “deteriorated” in the past year. At a United Nations press conference to mark the release of the report, the group’s UN advocacy director,

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
One Year Later: The Failure of the Arab Spring
NOW LEBANON
American expectations of the Arabs were always innocent. In the case of this administration, Obama’s delusion extends to non-Arab Muslims, that is, to the Iranians, the Pakistanis, the Afghanis. He cannot imagine that there are fundamental differences
Arab Spring the big issue in the Alps
The National
In the wake of the Arab Spring, growth in the region is a top issue in the Swiss ski resort for the politicians and assorted big thinkers who, over five days, will discuss global economic concerns. Intriguingly, the very future of capitalism will also

The National
Algeria gives parties green light for election
Reuters
* Government gives permission for 10 parties to register * Algeria under pressure to allow more democracy * Country so far largely untouched by “Arab Spring” By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Algeria’s government on Tuesday authorised the
Arab spring, embezzled funds meeting calls for greater coordination
GenevaLunch (blog)
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The first international meeting with experts from 15 countries to focus on the Arab spring and returning embezzled funds to Arab nations ended Tuesday afternoon 24 January in Lausanne with a call for greater coordination.
Marrakech forum explores security effects of Arab Spring
magharebia.com
Civilian and military officials from around the world convened in Marrakech to analyse the implications of the Arab spring on African security. By Imrane Binoual for Magharebia in Marrakech – 23/01/12 [Imrane Binoual] The third Marrakech Security Forum
The case for Arab intervention in Syria
ABC Online
It’s been more than a year since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself alight in a Tunisian street, providing the catalyst for what we now all know as the Arab Spring. Whilst the downfall of the Tunisian regime was swift and largely bloodless,

 

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