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25Jan/16

In pictures, Egypt’s 2011 uprising and events that followed

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A look back at the events that changed Egypt’s political landscape since the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

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15Dec/15

A pushcart vendor’s desperate act galvanizes the Arab world

Five years since spark that started ‘Arab Spring’

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It was five years ago that a vegetable-seller in Tunisia set himself alight, igniting weeks of demonstrations that led to the unseating of long-time ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali – and setting off a chain of uprisings across the region.

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