The Egyptians weren’t the first peoples in the Arab world to rise up against an oppressive government in 2011. Before that Facebook group was made, the people of Tunisia rose up against their (now former) president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, kicked him out, and have had an acting president since mid-December. Egypt got so much [...]
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Top 5 Mid-East governments at risk of toppling
By Sachin Seth
Feb. 15, 2011 1 Comment
Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: abdullah saleh, ahmadinejad, algeria, bahrain, bouazizi, bouteflika, democracy, demonstration, egypt, hosni mubarak, iran, jordan, khlaifa, protest, syria, tehran, tunisia, uprising, yemen
Swiss freeze Mubarak assets
Feb. 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Switzerland has frozen the assets of Hosni Mubarak, who resigned as president of Egypt on Friday after 30 years of rule. “I can confirm that Switzerland has frozen possible assets of the former Egyptian president with immediate effect,” Swiss spokesman Lars Knuchel told Reuters soon after Mubarak bowed to 18 days of mass protests. “As [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues Tagged With: 2011 egyptian uprising, egypt, hosni mubarak, swiss, swiss bank, Switzerland
Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak steps down
By Sachin Seth
Feb. 11, 2011 4 Comments
Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president after 18 days of protests by the country’s people, and 30 years as the country’s ruler. The move was a surprise, as many thought Mubarak planned to step down yesterday during his speech. Emergency law however is still in place and will be until the military sees fit [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: cairo, egypt, hosni mubarak, military, omar suleiman, president, protest, resigns, steps down, tahrir
BREAKING NEWS: Mubarak resigns
Feb. 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has resigned. The announcement came suddenly in a statement at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The embattled president had left Cairo Friday after announcing Thursday night that he would not step down. The announcement will send shockwaves worldwide after more than 18 days of peaceful protests by millions of Egyptians fed up [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues Tagged With: 2011 egyptian uprising, hosni mubarak
Report: Mubarak leaves Cairo
Feb. 11, 2011 1 Comment
As protests rage on in Egypt with an increasing level of anger over President Hosni Mubarak’s Thursday broadcast, in which he announced he would not step down, a report surfaced Friday that Mubarak had left the capital city of Cairo. Instead, Mubarak is taking up at the Red Sea resort community of Sharm el-Sheikh, 250 [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues Tagged With: 2011 egyptian uprising, cairo, egypt, hosni mubarak, sharm el-sheikh
West is moving too slow on Egypt
By Sachin Seth
Feb. 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Is Egypt ready for democracy? The question itself is insulting, and I’m not even Egyptian. The main concern? If Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leaves immediately, and elections are held within two months, the government will be too fragile and Islamists will overtake Parliament, much like what happened after the Shah of Iran was overthrown in 1979. But, [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: cairo, doug saunders, egypt, hosni mubarak, muslim brotherhood, protest, uprising
US and Egypt: the contradiction between words and actions
By Sachin Seth
Jan. 31, 2011 Leave a Comment
Contradiction in rhetoric and action is a pretty standard feature of foreign policy for countries around the world. We were reminded of that this week; while President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton were giving speeches about how Egypt‘s President Hosni Mubarak should listen to the demands of his people, Mubarak’s army was flying American-made jets over protests [...]
Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: aid, biden, clinton, egypt, hosni mubarak, military, obama, tear gas, usa
