It's more a contagion or a gale, it's a trail of fire that captures the minds across Africa. Tunisia has expelled its tyrant, and the desire to do the same spreads ... and not only in Arab countries. It is not quite certain that the "jasmine revolution" is indeed a revolution. It is undeniable, however, it was held on African soil.
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali belonged to that category of head of states represented both north and south of the Sahara - and elsewhere in the world - ruling on systems rotten to the core, protected by a combination of authoritarianism and good macroeconomic figures. As if the rate of growth (about 4% in 2010) to be the envy of Europe had the opportunity to feed the hungry and quench their thirst for freedom, this non-negotiable commodity that does not change its value according regions or local custom.
Countries are not only populated stomachs, even empty. In the small world globalized, it is time to realize, before the street does not charge to put the record straight. "Bread, Freedom, Dignity," proclaim the slogans of Tunis, way to remind that in a context where prices are soaring, being poor becomes a little more pain.
Pain, we know, has no bottom. It is unclear however when it becomes intolerable. In Egypt, where, since late 2010, the price of bread increased by 10% per month, and where the overwhelming majority of the population struggles to feed, we may have reached that threshold. Lengthening the pitch to turn to go to great strides toward healthy riots, Egyptian youth brandished placards modeled on those of Tunis to try to get it too, from a hated head of state, "Mubarak liberates! " In other countries such as Sudan, we also dream of seeing a corrupt regime, paralyzed, eventually flying to escape the wrath of his own street.
The continent bursting with youth, he can no longer be led by leaders who are competing for record of longevity in power, Burkina Faso, Chad, through Cameroon, before considering handing over to a their children, as in Senegal. How long will they old house in Africa? We remember that in May 1968 the frustration of students in the Latin Quarter in Paris, stifling in Gaullist France had unleashed a wave of shock the world? "In the end you're tired of this old world," wrote Apollinaire (Zone) in 1913.
This extreme tiredness, there have been two previous Sudan in 1964 and 1985, when power was overthrown by rebel movements. Plans to breathe, a staggering corruption, a nomenklatura that appropriates the resources and levers of the state, while prices rise along with anger. That is something to remind other nations of the continent.
We remember that in September 2010, serious riots broke out in Mozambique, a country popular with tourists because of its beaches and popular with donors because of budgetary orthodoxy of its leaders? Mozambique aligns the growth figures even more impressive than those of Tunisia (over 6% in 2010), and donors, apparently chose to ignore the abuses of power that takes its proper books of accounts but flirts with drug traffickers, among others turpitude.
It is ultimately the inflation that has thrown the people into the streets of Maputo, waiting for rehearsals elsewhere. The cost of living is the result of soaring commodity prices on world markets, starting with that of cereals, including the outbreak could be comparable to that of 2008, the year of "riots" in Africa.
These riots were not talking about that basket, but a whole world became unbearable. Hunger for bread, hunger for freedom, hunger for dignity mixed. All Tunisians? In Africa, where presidents command of perpetuating the art of turning the election into new studs to screw a little more power, it is enough to meditate.
It is on this basis that, following the election in Côte d'Ivoire, and drama tied around his result, movements emerging throughout the continent. Here, a group of young leaders, mainly in the economic sector, from over 20 countries in Africa have called on Facebook: "We are all Ivorians" demand that the victory of Alassane Ouattara, certified by the United Nations, is also recognized in his own country.
The initiative, launched just was nipped in the bud by strangers, obviously supporting the camp of Laurent Gbagbo, which is based on a reversal of the results achieved by the Constitutional Council to assert themselves reelected. Blocked page. The facilitators of the original group had to get a "website developer Benin in Poland," says Mamadou Toure, one of the facilitators, to engage in the same spirit burst African citizen (www.
sursautcitoyenafricain. Org) before discovering a similar movement in East Africa (www. vote4africa. org). Their common point: that the willingness of citizens to be heard, especially during elections. Before they end up in the street. Or worse. Email: jpremy @ bbc. fr. Jean-Philippe Rémy Article published in the edition of 28.01.11 
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali belonged to that category of head of states represented both north and south of the Sahara - and elsewhere in the world - ruling on systems rotten to the core, protected by a combination of authoritarianism and good macroeconomic figures. As if the rate of growth (about 4% in 2010) to be the envy of Europe had the opportunity to feed the hungry and quench their thirst for freedom, this non-negotiable commodity that does not change its value according regions or local custom.
Countries are not only populated stomachs, even empty. In the small world globalized, it is time to realize, before the street does not charge to put the record straight. "Bread, Freedom, Dignity," proclaim the slogans of Tunis, way to remind that in a context where prices are soaring, being poor becomes a little more pain.
Pain, we know, has no bottom. It is unclear however when it becomes intolerable. In Egypt, where, since late 2010, the price of bread increased by 10% per month, and where the overwhelming majority of the population struggles to feed, we may have reached that threshold. Lengthening the pitch to turn to go to great strides toward healthy riots, Egyptian youth brandished placards modeled on those of Tunis to try to get it too, from a hated head of state, "Mubarak liberates! " In other countries such as Sudan, we also dream of seeing a corrupt regime, paralyzed, eventually flying to escape the wrath of his own street.
The continent bursting with youth, he can no longer be led by leaders who are competing for record of longevity in power, Burkina Faso, Chad, through Cameroon, before considering handing over to a their children, as in Senegal. How long will they old house in Africa? We remember that in May 1968 the frustration of students in the Latin Quarter in Paris, stifling in Gaullist France had unleashed a wave of shock the world? "In the end you're tired of this old world," wrote Apollinaire (Zone) in 1913.
This extreme tiredness, there have been two previous Sudan in 1964 and 1985, when power was overthrown by rebel movements. Plans to breathe, a staggering corruption, a nomenklatura that appropriates the resources and levers of the state, while prices rise along with anger. That is something to remind other nations of the continent.
We remember that in September 2010, serious riots broke out in Mozambique, a country popular with tourists because of its beaches and popular with donors because of budgetary orthodoxy of its leaders? Mozambique aligns the growth figures even more impressive than those of Tunisia (over 6% in 2010), and donors, apparently chose to ignore the abuses of power that takes its proper books of accounts but flirts with drug traffickers, among others turpitude.
It is ultimately the inflation that has thrown the people into the streets of Maputo, waiting for rehearsals elsewhere. The cost of living is the result of soaring commodity prices on world markets, starting with that of cereals, including the outbreak could be comparable to that of 2008, the year of "riots" in Africa.
These riots were not talking about that basket, but a whole world became unbearable. Hunger for bread, hunger for freedom, hunger for dignity mixed. All Tunisians? In Africa, where presidents command of perpetuating the art of turning the election into new studs to screw a little more power, it is enough to meditate.
It is on this basis that, following the election in Côte d'Ivoire, and drama tied around his result, movements emerging throughout the continent. Here, a group of young leaders, mainly in the economic sector, from over 20 countries in Africa have called on Facebook: "We are all Ivorians" demand that the victory of Alassane Ouattara, certified by the United Nations, is also recognized in his own country.
The initiative, launched just was nipped in the bud by strangers, obviously supporting the camp of Laurent Gbagbo, which is based on a reversal of the results achieved by the Constitutional Council to assert themselves reelected. Blocked page. The facilitators of the original group had to get a "website developer Benin in Poland," says Mamadou Toure, one of the facilitators, to engage in the same spirit burst African citizen (www.
sursautcitoyenafricain. Org) before discovering a similar movement in East Africa (www. vote4africa. org). Their common point: that the willingness of citizens to be heard, especially during elections. Before they end up in the street. Or worse. Email: jpremy @ bbc. fr. Jean-Philippe Rémy Article published in the edition of 28.01.11
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