Maghreb : Printemps, où es-tu ?

Au sommaire : Vingt ans après le bombardement sur le camp militaire français de Bouaké en Côte d’Ivoire et la brutale répression sur des civils à Abidjan, quelle justice pour les victimes ? Donald Trump a été réélu cette semaine président des Etats-Unis. Comment a-t-il réussi à r ...  Show more

Au sommaire : en Guinée, le gouvernement a annoncé la dissolution ou la suspension de la moitié des partis politiques du pays dans un souci d’« assainir l’espace politique ». En visite d’État au Maroc, le président Emmanuel Macron a réaffirmé que le territoire du Sahara occidenta ...  Show more

In December 2010, anti-government protests broke out in Tunisia after a young fruit-seller called Mohammed Bouazizi set himself alight outside a government office in the south of the country. At one of the huge rallies in Tunis, a young singer called Emel Mathlouthi sang a song c ...  Show more

In the early months of 2011 a wave of social unrest swept across the Arab world as people protested against repressive and authoritarian regimes, economic stagnation, unemployment and corruption. It began with reaction to the self-immolation of a young market trader in Tunisia ...

Ten years ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire and set off a revolution across the Middle East and North Africa. The Independent’s Borzou Daragahi says the Arab Spring never ended. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch ...  Show more

The Arab Spring erupted ten years ago when a wave of "pro-democracy" protests spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The effects of the uprisings reverberated around the world as regimes fell in some countries, and civil war began in others. This week, we remember th ...  Show more