Even as Arab Spring sought democracy after removing dictators, long periods of political instability, Islamist violence, and rise of new autocrats followed in West Asian and North African nations where Arab Spring toppled regimes More than a decade after the Arab Spring began in Tunisia, the anti-establishment movement finally materialised in Syria over the weekend. One autocrat replaced another in …
Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. Tanzania, which registered the ship where Saleh was abandoned, never acted on his case or even responded to emails, said Mohamed Arrachedi, a union organizer who worked …
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