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Arab States Weekly Review Jan 28th – Feb 3rd 2012

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74 people were killed in clashes between spectators from rival teams at a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said. The police came under sharp criticism for failing to stop the trouble. The Egyptian cabinet called an emergency meeting.

The Arab League suspended an observer mission to Syria that was meant to aid a peaceful end to an increasingly-violent conflict between the government and protesters.

Iraq’s main Sunni party returned to parliament and will resume talks with Shia leaders, following a protest over an arrest warrant for the country’s Sunni vice-president.

Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt’s Sinai region released 25 Chinese workers they had kidnapped.

Arab States Weekly Review 21st – 27th January 2012

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Yemen’s embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh went into temporary exile under a deal with the opposition that will see power being transferred to a new government.

Egypt celebrated its first anniversary of the protests which led to Hosni Mubarak’s departure from power. In the country’s first free parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood and their hardline Salafi rivals won a joint 70% of the seats.

Arab States Weekly Review 31 Dec 2011 – 6 Jan 2012

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A team of observers of the Arab League visited Syria in an effort to persuade President Assad’s regime to withdraw its troops from towns, to free all political prisoners and talk to the opposition. The violence continued.

Egypt’s three-stage general election drew to a close with a final run-off to occur on January 11th. The relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood is expected to gain most votes, though have indicated to prefer a coalition with secular parties rather than the extreme Salafists.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met in Jordan and had their first talks for more than a year.

Arab States Weekly Review 3rd – 9th December 2011

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The Muslim Brotherhood won a bigger proportion of the vote than expected in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, gaining 46% in a first round. The Salafists, a more extreme group of Islamists, won 21%. The voting is due to end in mid-January.

Kuwait’s emir dissolved parliament amid corruption allegations. Elections will be held within 60 days.

Arab States Weekly Review 26th Nov – 2nd Dec 2011

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Parliamentary elections started in Egypt, the first fully free elections in six decades. Early results indicate that the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extreme Salafists had done well.

Bombings in Baghdad and Basra killed at least 45 people. As the last Americans troops prepare to leave Iraq, such attacks may cast doubt on the Iraqi forces’ ability to maintain security.

Kuwait’s prime minister and his cabinet resigned in Kuwait over allegations of corruption.

Five bloggers in Abu Dhabi received prison sentences of between two and three years for insulting the country’s rulers and sowing dissent, but were promptly granted a presidential pardon.

Arab States Weekly Review 19th – 25th Nov 2011

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Protests erupted in Egypt calling for the Supreme Council of Armed Forces to step down and hand over rule to civilians. Around 40 people were killed in the protests by security forces. The military council said parliamentary elections would go ahead as planned on November 28th, and that presidential elections would be held by July.

A report by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry said the authorities had used ‘excessive force’ in a crackdown earlier this year against mostly Shia pro-democracy protesters.

Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi was caught in southern Libya, as was Muammar Qaddafi’s security chief Abdullah al-Senussi. Both are wanted by the International Criminal Court.

Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh signed an agreement brokered by the GCC, saying he would stand down and hand power to his vice-president.

Arab States Weekly Review 12th – 18th Nov 2011

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The Arab League voted to suspend Syria’s membership and apply sanctions, after Presidet Assad failed to implement a plan to end the violence. Turkey joined the call for action and King Abdullah of Jordan said Mr Assad should go.

An Egyptian court ruled that members of former President Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, which was dissolved after the was ousted in February, will be allowed to run in the forthcoming elections. A lower court had banned party members from standing.

Arab States Weekly Review 8th – 14th October 2011

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At least 25 people were killed in Cairo in clashes between Coptic Christians and security forces. The Copts were demonstrating against religious discrimination and the burning of a church in Aswan. The clashes were the most violent ones seen since Egypt’s January 25 revolution.

Arab States Weekly Review 10th – 16th September 2011

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A mob of Egyptians smashed through security barriers and broke into the building that houses the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Some 80 diplomats and their families left the country as Egyptian commandos dispersed the assailants.

In an attempt to fend off calls for more freedom, Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced plans to allow independent radio and television stations for the first time since independence in 1962.

A UN panel warned that Yemen is close to a civil war. Its president Ali Abdullah Saleh is still recovering in Saudi Arabia from an attack in his palace three months ago. Saleh instructed his vice-president to arrange for power to be handed over to a new government.

Arab States Weekly Review 20th – 26th August 2011

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Rebels in Libya overran Tripoli and occupied Colonel Qaddafi’s compound. Qaddafi was absent and is rumoured to have fled the country. Heavy fighting continued in the city with the rebels largely in control of the country.

American, Britain and other European countries called for the departure of Syrian president Bashar Assad, after his continuing violent suppression of protests.

Egypt and Israel came close to a falling out over a shooting at the Sinai border involving Palestinian extremists, but appeared to have stepped back from a diplomatic imbroglio.