Six Zimbabweans arrested last year for watching footage of the Arab Spring protests were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to commit public violence.
Economic opportunity must be a priority if the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa are to succeed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.
University of Oxford's Eugene Rogan examines the post-Arab Spring outlook for Egypt and Tunisia.
In the days following Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's ousting last January, some media reporting on the so-called "Jasmine Revolution" presented the internet as the unique factor that led to the fall of his authoritarian regime.
Thousands of people gathered on the main boulevard in Tunis on Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of a demonstration that toppled the president and set in motion a string of revolts across the Arab world.
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will be remembered as the first leader to be toppled in what became known as the Arab Spring. After nearly 24 years in power, he became the former president of Tunisia.
Tunisian authorities are trying former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in absentia Tuesday for his alleged role in the death of protesters in January 2011.
Tunisian Central Banker Mustapha Nabli speaks about the economic challenges faced by the new government.
CNN's Ivan Watson looks at the life of the man who inspired protesters to stand up across the Middle East.
Meriem Ben Salah's 2-month-old will never know his mother's Tunisia.
Excerpt from the CNNI year-end special "Defining Moments 2011." The spark set ablaze in Tunisia spread in Arab world.
Tunisia has sworn in a new president, a milestone in the North African country that kicked off the dramatic year-long cry for freedom across the Arab world.
A Tunisian court has rejected a request to release Libya's former prime minister, who is set to be extradited back to his country, Tunisia's official news agency reported Wednesday.
CNN's Ivan Watson meets the woman whose confrontation with a vendor helped launch Tunisia's revolution.
Tunisia was the first Arab country this year to overthrow its long-ruling dictator. And it now is the first country of the Arab Spring to hold an election, one that international observers are calling remarkably free and fair.
Polls closed late Sunday in Tunisia, the torchbearer of the so-called Arab Spring, but voters will not see results of national elections until Tuesday, officials said.
Tunisians vote Sunday to pick delegates as democracy comes to the first Arab Spring nation. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
While the world focuses on the gruesome images of a dead Gadhafi in Libya, many are missing another big game-changer taking place Sunday in the Arab world -- through ballots, not bullets.
Tunisia, the country where the wave of popular Arab discontent started and spread, will fittingly hold the Arab Spring's first election Sunday, a contest pitting secularists against Islamists.
How times change. Less than a year ago, these four men were some of the most powerful in North Africa and the Middle East. Today one is dead, one in exile and another is in jail awaiting trial. Only one of them remains in power.
What a difference a year makes. Of four once-feared leaders, only one remains in power after the Arab Spring.
For more than a decade, CNN's Jonathan Mann has spoken to Nobel Peace Prize winners after they've received their award.
Riot police surround the Cairo court where the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak continues.
A former Egyptian interior minister and his aides ordered the killings of anti-government protesters in the days before Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, according to testimony from an Egyptian security official, an attorney told CNN on Thursday.
Tunisian forces clashed with unidentified gunmen in central Tunisia overnight, and the "intensive shooting" lasted until early Saturday, the country's state-run media reported. The military currently has the gunmen surrounded, and is sweeping the area, TAP reported.
A judge Sunday postponed the trial of Egypt's former interior minister, who is accused of ordering the killing of anti-government protesters.
Face Time -- Mehdi Houas, Tunisian Minister of Tourism
Prosecutors in Zimbabwe dropped treason charges Monday against six activists accused of plotting an Egyptian-style uprising against President Robert Mugabe.
Ousted Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was sentenced Monday to 15 and a half years in prison on charges related to the alleged discovery of weapons, archaeological artifacts and illegal drugs -- including marijuana -- in his country's presidential palace.
The nephew of deposed Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali found his sentence for a drug possession conviction doubled when he appealed it, state media said.
Tunisia, the country where the Arab Spring uprisings began this year, has joined the International Criminal Court, becoming the first North African country to do so.
A Tunisian court sentenced ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his wife to 35 years in prison in absentia on Monday after a one-day trial on corruption charges.
The dust may only just have settled in Tunisia after the Jasmine Revolution, but that has not stopped the launch of a highly provocative marketing campaign designed to entice British and French holidaymakers to the country.
Buses in London carrying controversial adverts for Tunisian tourism.
Former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will be tried in absentia next week, the country's interim prime minister said Tuesday.
Former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali said Monday he has been unfairly portrayed and discredited by political opponents seeking to make a break with their country's past.
President Barack Obama recently spoke of the December day a young Tunisian street vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire, in an act of hopelessness -- and purpose. His act sparked the Arab revolutions.
At least 300 people were killed and 700 injured during the Tunisian uprising, a top U.N. human rights expert said Saturday.
Several hundred protesters were gathered in the center of Tunisia's capital Sunday as riot police stood guard.
China has arrested a pro-democracy activist, the latest detention in the government's effort to prevent the Arab world's "Jasmine Revolution" from spreading into China, a human rights group said Wednesday.
Political upheaval across North Africa and the Middle East has provided rich pickings for animators, whose satirical videos have gone viral on the web, attracting millions of viewers.
CNN's Rima Maktabi reports on the funniest clips available to view on the web for parodies of Mubarak, Gadaffi and Ben Ali.
An estimated 100 or more would-be North African migrants remained missing Wednesday, a day after the boat they were in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said. The incident is the latest of a number of tragic ends in what has become a steady flow of people who set sail from Tunisia to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The little Arab country that started the region's wave of revolutions has wildly divergent reactions to the arrival of America's top diplomat.
Conflicting reports hit the international media this week about whether Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was negotiating a deal with the opposition for a guaranteed safe exit if he relinquished power.
CNN's Arwa Damon speaks to Libyan opposition leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil.
A Tunisian court issued a ruling Wednesday dissolving the former governing party of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a lawyer said.
Tunisia's Interior Ministry announced Monday that it is dissolving its "political police" and the entire State Security Division, which was widely unpopular under the former regime, according to the country's news agency, Tunis Afrique Presse.
A court in Zimbabwe ruled Monday that six of 45 political and civil society activists arrested last month on charges of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe in a Tunisian-Egyptian style uprising face a trial on treason charges and could be executed if convicted.
The United States expressed concern Thursday about recent arrests in Zimbabwe of political and civil society activists and allegations by their lawyer that some of them were tortured.
Tunisia's interim president declared Thursday that parliamentary elections will be held July 24. Fouad Mebazaa said he plans to continue serving in his interim role until the new parliament begins to work, the country's official news agency reported.
They once risked arrest -- now Tunisia's rappers are hailed as heroes and revered as a voice for the country's youth.
Tunisia's rappers have long made a point of speaking their minds, their lyrics often bringing them into conflict with the old regime. But more than simply upsetting the status quo, according to one of the country's leading rappers their music was the "fuel" for Tunisia's revolution.
At least three Tunisian government officials resigned Monday and Tuesday, the country's official news agency reported, in the wake of the resignation of the prime minister on Sunday.
A green flag fluttering in the wind designated Libyan territory. A short distance away, a red flag flew for Tunisia. In between, a mass of humanity waited in no man's land, desperate to flee escalating rebellion in one nation and cross into another that has already succeeded in toppling a dictator.
Tunisia's interim president tapped Al-Baji Qa'ed Al-Sebsi as the country's new prime minister Sunday, after the previous prime minister resigned amid protests, state-run media reported.
One month on, Tunisia struggles to move forward after the revolution. CNN's Neil Curry reports.
Protests in Tunisia turned violent and deadly Saturday, just over six weeks after a popular uprising forced the president out of office, and lit a spark of desire for democratic reform in parts of Africa and the Middle East.
CNN's Eileen Hsieh explains how the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East and Africa is making waves on the internet in China.
Political activists and union members arrested in Zimbabwe last week and accused of plotting an Egyptian-style uprising against longtime President Robert Mugabe were beaten by state security agents, their attorney said Thursday.
Dozens of political activists and union members rounded up in Zimbabwe last week faced a possible death sentence as prosecutors Wednesday accused them of plotting an Egyptian-style uprising against longtime President Robert Mugabe.
Secretary Clinton speaks at the first ever Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society.
One month after Tunisia ousted its president, thousands are fleeing to Italy. CNN's Eve Bower reports.
Tunisia rejected the idea of Italian security forces deploying in the north African country to help fight illegal immigration, the country's state news agency reported Monday.
Southern Italy is facing a potential "humanitarian emergency" as waves of Tunisians fleeing unrest in north Africa are landing on a coastal island near Sicily, the country's official ANSA news agency reported Sunday.
For nearly 30 years, one man dominated Egypt.
The demonstrations that erupted on January 25 were driven by Egyptians' aspirations for greater dignity in their lives. Most Egyptians have seen their standard of living deteriorate over the past decade because of rising unemployment, persistent inflation and stagnant wages.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria shares a must-read book on Egypt's future and his final thoughts on the turmoil in the country.
Police in the northern city of El Kef opened fire on a crowd of protesters in Tunisia on Saturday after demonstrators reportedly became violent, the country's official news agency reported.
The violence from the streets of Tunisia to Egypt, and the U.S. struggle to find the right diplomatic response, is raising questions about whether the U.S. intelligence community failed to predict things were about to boil over.
CNN's Barbara Starr reports on the debate over what the U.S. knew in advance about the Egyptian crisis.
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not seek re-election once his current term ends in 2013, he said Wednesday, after more than three decades in office.
The protests that have spread through parts of the Arab world led to dramatic change in another country Tuesday, as Jordan's king dismissed his government.
With unprecedented numbers of protesters on the streets of Egypt calling for President Hosni Mubarak to resign, what clues do earlier demonstrations in the region offer about what will happen in Cairo?
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux reports on a week of rage in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East.
The United States lifted a travel warning for Tunisia on Friday as social unrest decreases and public order returns, according to the U.S. State Department.
President John F. Kennedy once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Thousands of people clashed with security forces in Egypt on Friday. Those demonstrations followed unrest in the nearby countries of Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen. Here's a look at key information about each of the countries, from CNN research and the CIA World Factbook:
Tunisia's unity government weathered another shake-up Thursday as the foreign minister resigned and Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announced the composition of a cabinet that includes 12 new ministers.
iReporter Marwan Guetari discusses the protests in Tunisia.
Egypt has been rocked by protests in recent days, only weeks after similar disturbances sparked revolution in Tunisia and forced then-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.
Thousands of people demonstrated against Yemen's longtime president Thursday, demanding the kind of change that forced Tunisia's president from office earlier this month.
CNN's Ivan Watson looks how and why the situation in Jordan is mirroring that in Tunisia.
The restive North African nation of Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for its ousted president, his wife, and several members of their families, Tunisian media reported.
While the developed nations drag their feet on inclusive trade agreements with emerging markets, Africa is busy redefining itself. Most of the continent's countries -- remnants of colonial rule -- are barely 50 years old, infant nations on the path to democratic maturity.
CNN's Richard Quest offers a primer on this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
CNN's Brian Todd looks at why Americans should care about the "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia.
As Tunisia adjusts to a new government, Selma Beji is cautiously optimistic about the future -- and freedoms -- of her fellow Tunisians.
A Yemeni rights activist, whose arrest sparked an international outcry and domestic protests, was released from prison Monday and said there is a revolution taking place in her country.
Family members of the deposed Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are reportedly in Canada, a development now being denounced by some in the Tunisian community there.
Hundreds of protesters marched through Sana'a, Yemen, on Sunday demanding the release of prominent Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman, who was arrested on Saturday. According to a participant, security forces at one point clashed with protesters and at least 20 of Karman's supporters were later detained.
Hundreds of students and activists staged rival demonstrations Saturday at Sanaa University in Yemen's capital, the editor of the Yemen Post said.
CNN's Nic Robertson looks at whether what happened in Tunisia could occur in Egypt.
Protesters in Algiers defy 20-year ban, taking to the streets to demand political reform.
Baton-wielding Algerian security forces clashed Saturday with protesters who defied a ban and took to the streets of the capital demanding political reform.
Tunisia's new government announced Thursday it will recognize political groups banned under the regime of ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and grant amnesty to all political prisoners.
Ben Wedeman reports people in Tunisia want nothing to do with former members of the former ruling party, the RCD.
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