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One year on from Jan 25 - the date in 2011 many Egyptians will mark as the beginning of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Blogger Gigi Ibrahim reflects on a year of revolution:
I never had the illusion that a revolution was an easy road for change, but in Egypt, it was inevitable. The people broke their fears and risked their lives because they could no longer sustain a life under Mubarak’s repression. Egyptians, young and old, rich and poor, Muslims and Christians, men and women, all took to the streets risking their lives in confrontations with police bullets and tear gas for one demand, “the downfall of the regime.” A year later, with 19 more repressive dictators in power, we are still demanding the downfall of the regime represented in the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF). This was never a surprise to me because I understood as early as 11 February with SCAF in power that this is only the beginning of the revolution.
On Twitter, Egyptians are sharing what #jan25 means to them, while on Comment is Free, Ahdaf Soueif writes about the road to parliament for the revolution.
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Gallery from Libya: on the frontline in Sirte
A tattered banner depicting ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi hangs from a building in the centre of the city
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Inside Gaddafi’s compound
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Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP
Rebels stamp on the head of a Muammar Gaddafi statue inside his compound. See more images from within Gaddafi’s compound, which was breached by rebel forces on Tuesday, in our gallery
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Tunisia six months on: After Ben Ali
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Libyan migrants’ boat deaths to be investigated by Council of Europe
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Photograph: Francesco Malavolta/AP
Human rights body demands inquiry into failure of European military units to save 61 migrants on boat fleeing Libya
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Hosni Mubarak detained over corruption allegations
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Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, 20 years on
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Photograph: T Bolstad/UNHCR
The world’s biggest refugee complex, set up at the start of Somalia’s civil war in 1991, now also counts Sudanese and Ethiopians among its population of more than 300,000
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The Middle East protests from their beginnings
Ever since a man in Tunisia burnt himself to death in December 2010 in protest at his treatment by police, pro-democracy rebellions have erupted across the Arab world. Our interactive timeline traces key events
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