Bahrain in crisis and Middle East protests – live blog
Here's a summary of events so far: • Bahrain: Five people are believed to have been killed and scores injured after Bahraini security forces raided peaceful protests in Pearl roundabout in the early hours of Thursday morning. Pictures have emerged showing brutal injuries sustained by protesters and, in one case, a young child. Riot police also targeted doctors and medics, while ambulances were prevented from reaching Pearl roundabout to collect the wounded. Gulf Arab foreign ministers are meeting in Bahrain tonight to discuss the unrest in the country, according to reports.
Libyan, posthumously, is winner of the Louis Lyons Award
SHOWCASE | November 18, 2011 Mohammed Nabbous, killed in March during anti-Gadafi fighting, sent out the first images and sounds of the unrest from Benghazi to the outside world. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Mohammed “Mo” Nabbous, founder of Libya Alhurra TV, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Nabbous, who was killed in March, was chosen as a representative of all those who courageously worked to disseminate news during the Arab Spring.
France supports Libya rebel council - Europe
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is to meet with leaders of Libya's opposition council during a trip to the Middle East next week, she has told US lawmakers. Clinton's statement of intent comes as France on Thursday became the first major European country to recognise Libya's opposition National Council based in Benghazi as the country's legitimate representative. In a separate joint statement with the United Kingdom, France also called for the Gaddafi "clique" to leave office. "We are reaching out to the opposition inside and outside of Libya," Clinton said while announcing her trip to Tunisia and Egypt. "I will be meeting with some of those figures, both in the United States and when I travel next week, to discuss what more the United States and others can do," she said.
LBBC - Libyan British Business Council
Synopsis: Prime Minister – Ali Zeidan First Deputy Prime Minister – Sadiq Abdulkarim Abdulrahman, Age 46
The Libyan Protests
The 2011 Libyan protests began as a series of protests and confrontations occurring in the North African state of Libya against the Government of Libya and its de facto leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. The unrest began on 15 February 2011 and continues to the present. Protests have centered on Libya’s two largest cities, the capital of Tripoli in the west, and Benghazi in the east and tends to spread to other cities.
Libya's schools trying to reform pro-Gaddafi curriculum
Story from The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report. Since the toppling and death of former Libyan president Moammar Gadhafi, change is the watchword in Libya. A new prime minister has been named, a new transitional government is expected, and portraits of fallen martyrs are replacing pictures of Gadhafi in public spaces. But perhaps one of the most crucial changes is happening in more discrete locations: in schools, all across the country.
EXTRA: UN official appeals for access to western Libya
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Libya travel guide
Libya (Arabic: ليبيا Lībyā), is a country in North Africa. In the north it has a Mediterranean Sea coast, with Egypt to the east and Tunisia to the west. It also has land borders with Algeria, Chad, Niger and Sudan.
News Desk: How Qaddafi Lost Libya
It seemed unlikely that Libya, sandwiched between regime collapse in Tunisia and regime collapse in Egypt, could be untouched by the movement. Qaddafi has had dominion over an increasingly malcontent country, and the citizens have been increasingly disgusted by the gap between his rhetoric of direct democracy and his autocratic grip on power. When I wrote about Qaddafi for The New Yorker, in 2006, the question was whether a much-advertised reform process was really underway. The ostensible champion of reform was Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam. Seif usually talks a good game, but he does so with minimal regard for the truth. I was amazed, at a meeting with Seif and some senior American diplomats, in 2008, to hear him describe as imminent the exact same plans he’d so described to me in 2005, without the slightest embarrassment that nothing he had promised then had even inched forward.
