Maghreb, Tunisia and Egypt after the revolt is rising in Algeria

If the Syrian opposition today to try to give the final push to the Assad regime, even the government of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika appears to navigate increasingly turbulent waters. Faced with ongoing demonstrations by students and government workers returned to announce democratic reforms. But it might not be enough opposition to civil and does not want to settle for a few small concessions.

Revolt in Syria, the police fired on protesters: 15 dead

Protests against the Syrian government At least 15 protesters were killed in Dara, in the south of Syria, during clashes with security forces recorded from last night. On Friday hundreds of people gathered around the Omari mosque calling for an end of the Baathist regime of President Bashar Assad. "The police started shooting tear gas and run after disconnecting the electricity," one activist told the press.

Messages from Tripoli, told the revolt on Facebook

E 'February 23, arriving from Libya only a poor image, with the stolen phone. Gaddafi has already made his first appearance on TV, spoke to the country. Rumours that gave fleeing to Venezuela, insists that Saddam will not give up and fight until the end. To understand, in Italy on what is really happening in Tripoli is complicated.

The phone lines are skipped and the only direct feedback that I can get is by a young Italian engineer, John has just got back to Rome. E 'tired and scared, the telephone company you work for foreign employees held for three days in a compound not far from Tripoli. "We were locked in a safe in there - said exhausted John - but the airport was risky.

Libya, arrived in Catania, the Italian San Giorgio with evacuees. Tense calm in Tripoli

The Italian navy ship San Giorgio arrived in Catania, carrying 258 passengers, including 121 Italians. The 250 men of the crew under the command of Captain Henry Giurelli have rescued some people still in the area, taking them from the Libyan port of Misurata. What we need to resolve the matter short of the 25 Italians stuck to Amal in southern Libya.

After hours a Air Force C130 has not received permission to land, a Navy destroyer, the Mimbelli should be taken in the next few hours in the port of Al Byraukah. Meanwhile in Tripoli, there has been a morning of tense calm after the shooting last night. Single shot and burst were heard several times in the night before.

Gaddafi and the Ambassador that he had understood everything

Hadeiba Hadi, Libya's ambassador to the EU, is one who understands things on the fly, or perhaps not. On Tuesday, the day of the war discourse of Colonel Gaddafi, the diplomat said his indignation and his condemnation of the massacres, but did not get to resign, as some colleagues have done in America and Europe, because, he says, "are Ambassador of Libya, Gaddafi ".

On Wednesday, the ambassador change log: it is and remains the ambassador of Libya and Gaddafi, in fact is loyal to the Colonel. An error journalism? Possible. Or, the information coming from Libya suggest greater caution today than yesterday. Although, in the European quarters, there are those who bet that Gaddafi will come to the end of the race Friday.

E 'born small for Facebook

Maybe in a few years the small "Facebook Ibrahim" call to account to the parents of this choice. Or maybe in a few years, it will be normal even in Italy to call their sons WWW, YouTube, or Google. The fact is that in Egypt, Facebook was born Feb. 18, a girl who bears the same name in gratitude to his parents for the role that the social network has played in the February 11 uprising culminated with the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak .

The Accomplices

Suddenly breaks out the least expected of the riots in the Arab world, by far the most violent against the people of Libya's dictator Gaddafi. The world is witnessing a terrible spectacle: the political demonstrations of unarmed demonstrators were exterminated by military units mercenary. The United States condemns, even if the voice of the world's leading power is too weak.

Europe has said that what happens in Libya violates every principle of political and human and can not be accepted by any of the member countries. None? But Italy is linked to Libya's dictator, who is wiping out his people by a treaty which binds it to the point - it is said in Article 4 - "Italy is committed to refrain from any form of interference, direct or indirect , in the internal or external affairs affecting the jurisdiction.

Tehran and Warsaw?

Whenever you see crowds on the streets of an Islamic country in the West triggered the conditioned reflex acquired in 1979 when Khomeini took power in Iran. Western public opinion is in fibrillation, because the opposition, sometimes violent, to Middle Eastern despots and kleptocrats, has markedly religious connotations, which, after the hysteria about the clashes of civilizations, justifies some shiver down my spine.

The greengrocer revolutionary

For Noam Chomsky's pessimism are just words, for the bitterness of our country around, Obama did not know which way to turn and was quickly released with wretched dictatorships built from the old America: Nixon, Kissinger, Reagan and Bush families. The third hypothesis says that the earthquake of Egypt could become an opportunity not to export weapons of democracy, but democracy announced in respect of that campaign: to expand to distant countries the same rights as U.S.

The anger of the Egyptians in revolt: "A new government is not enough, by the dictator Mubarak"

CAIRO - "See this? It says the United States. The Americans talk, talk, and then sell the weapons to kill Mubarak. " In front of a camera, Jamal, a boy of 15 years to vent all his anger. In his hand was a cocoon of red shotgun with his gray head. It exploded, but the white writing is still well impressed: "Made in USA".

The fifth day of protests yesterday in Cairo, was begun in peacefully. During the night the police had left the streets, giving way to the Army. A request for this, just come by the protesters. Young people, who flocked from all major arteries to Piazza Thar, chanted slogans against Saddam: "Elshab yoread isqat el-Rais," the people want the dictator go away.

Egypt avalanche effect of the Maghreb

The sands of popular anger Egyptian Sphinxes are flooding the scheme. The individual grains that form the Egyptian people no longer hold the weight of Mubarak and his power. It's unbearable now monuments of the property and the government seem to slip more and more likely to be swallowed by the sands of history.

What diplomacy and international politics has never been able (and has not really ever want to) do, is going through the drives from the bottom, from individuals whose anger has condensed on the move under the pressure of necessity: the growth prices and, consequently, of hunger, leading to the individual revolt (the many unemployed young people, or almost, that you are on fire from Algeria to Yemen, through Egypt as a witness to the fact the writer has al-Aswani) and then to the general rule.

Tunisia, dozens of deaths in prisons in revolt. Elections in two months

Burn the train station in Tunis, in Tunisia's prisons burned. In Monastir, on the east coast of the country, at least 57 prisoners died in the fire broke out last night in the city jail. In Mahdia, 140 km south of Tunis, residents speak of tens of prisoners who were killed while trying to escape from prison.

Similar reports also came from Bizerte and Mahdia. The escape of President Ben Ali in Saudi Arabia has stopped short of violence in the country. "It 's just the first step - people say - the second, what we still need to obtain, is freedom." The capital, yesterday the scene of clashes between police and protesters, today woke up in a mess still.

Algeria, fights for the high cost of living

High Anxiety in North Africa. In Algeria, during violent protests against the high cost of living and rampant unemployment, in an atmosphere of growing anger and frustration of the weakest sectors of the population. In the capital Algiers today has triggered a fierce battle between police and protesters.

The clashes come after those of recent days in Tunisia, also caused by the price of basic necessities. And after the attacks against the Coptic Christians in Egypt took place on December 31. In Algeria, the protest began on Tuesday with violent demonstrations. Cops in riot gear with tear gas and batons, are deployed in the most sensitive of the capital, especially near mosques.