Tunisian protesters clashing with security forces in Tunis last Friday. The uprising arose from gripes over poverty, unemployment, corruption and limits on freedoms, resulting in the downfall of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. -- PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS
Yesterday in Yemen
SANAA: About 1,000 students marched through the capital's streets yesterday calling on Arabs to rise up against their leaders.
'Leave before you are toppled,' read one banner, without naming Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Another said: 'Peaceful and democratic change is our aim in building a new Yemen.'
In power for the past 32 years, Mr Saleh was re-elected in September 2006 to a seven-year mandate.
Saturday in Egypt
CAIRO: Critics of President Hosni Mubarak have rushed to embrace the Tunisian example, noting that their country shares the combination of an autocratic ruler, rampant corruption and a large population of frustrated youth.
While the Egyptian government urged Tunisians to 'stand together' to 'avoid descending the country into chaos', ordinary Egyptians celebrated outside the Tunisian Embassy, chanting: 'Listen to Tunisians, it's your turn Egyptians!'
AMMAN: Over 5,000 people joined rallies last Friday to protest against rising prices and demand the removal of the prime minister, although King Abdullah II last week ordered reductions in prices and taxes on some foods and fuels.
Trade unionists also demonstrated outside the Tunisian Embassy in Amman on Saturday, chanting 'the Tunisian Revolution will spread'.
