blog discussion daaay.
any questions on libya?
deadly violence in some town.
protestors were gunned down by gaddafis people.
we are sending planes to help refugee.
lets move on.
egypt.
taylor brown has egypt.
problem s started from having no freedom and the unemployment rate sky rocketed.
and so the people protest.
the president was mubarak.
he reigned for 30 years.
he recently stepped down peacefully from power.
unlike gaddafi.
mubarak gave in to what the people were protesting.
alot of it has to do with corruption in gov't, unemployment, poverty.
there is alot of violence going on there.
the US is involved by not much.. we are providing aid possibly?
now, morocco.
marielle has morocco.
they have like 31 million people there.. daaang.
doonan started making fun of me.
unemployment rate is 30% in libya as of 2007.
annnyways;
morocco;
the people were looking for political reform and they had protest and 5 people had been found dead in the streets the next day and probably had something to do with the violent protests.
some of the protest were peaceful; but not allll of them.
sometimes they are met with violence.
mohammed the 6th has ruled since 1999.
caused by cooruption, unemployment, and poverty.
this stuff is so early.. that the US is waiting to see.
we haven't been involved much.
algeria.
kayla has algeria.
34 million people there.
9.9% unemployment rate.
the protest is mainly about high prices on food.
their leader is raising or lifting the emergency law.
no human rights at allll..
there are high housing costs.
the US probably isn't going to help cause compared to other countries; whats happening in algeria isn't that big of a deal. protests aren't as violent and all.
this had happened once before in algeria.
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tunisia.
megan has it.
wingert had to pee.
one of first, where it all started.
then it spread.
there was a lack of job opportunity.
high unemployment.
college student set himself on fire after the gov't took away his only source of income.
he was a fruit vendor; and they took away his thing.
talked about people starting themselves on fire.
people who have facebook & twitter were leaking unofficial news about it.
leader ben-alli.
they tried shutting down facebook & twitter.
it bothers dictators because they can't conrol what people do on here.
ben-alli stepped down and fled to saudi arabia. he was in power over 20 years.
corruption, unemployment 14%, population little over 10 mil.
president obama said that we support whats going on or something.
the prime minister took over, mohamid ghannouchi.
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yemen.
doonan has it.
unemployment rate is 35%, population is about 23.5 mil people.
the problem there is they need good political reforms.
alot of people are protesting.
20,000 people on Feb 3rd at a protest.
president saleh has been in power since 1970.
sheeike muslim rising? idk.
shortage of water.
yemen has been a hot bed for alkida activity for years.
HAD TO GO. :)
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