By Dina Zayed and Andrew Hammond Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:55am EST CAIRO (Reuters) – In the morning it was hosting guests denouncing protesters against President Hosni Mubarak as Iranian agents. By evening, it was airing a protester openly calling for the […]
By Marwa Awad and Andrew Hammond CAIRO | Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:57pm EST (Reuters) – For a country with 5,000 years of history, Egypt’s fall into a deep social, economic and political malaise during the three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s rule […]
By Marwa Awad and Andrew Hammond CAIRO, Feb 8 (Reuters) – One man’s tears provided a new impetus on Tuesday to protesters in Egypt seeking to keep up momentum in their campaign, now in its third week, to topple President Hosni Mubarak. […]
By Andrew Hammond CAIRO | Wed Feb 2, 2011 1:34pm EST (Reuters) – Walking across Tahrir Square in central Cairo Wednesday, it was hard to miss a huge slogan daubed in paint on the road for the military helicopters above to see: […]
By Tarek Amara and Andrew Hammond TUNIS | Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:49am EST (Reuters) – Protesters stormed police barricades in the Tunisian capital on Thursday and the government prepared to dismiss key loyalists of ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in […]
By Andrew Hammond TUNIS | Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:55am EST (Reuters) – At a news conference in Tunis this week, a young journalist pressed leftist opposition leader Moncef Marzouki to outline his party’s policies. “We will put forward our program but […]
By Tarek Amara and Andrew Hammond TUNIS | Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:50pm EST (Reuters) – Tunisian politicians are negotiating the creation of a council to oversee the interim government, people close to the talks said Monday after days of street protests […]
By Andrew Hammond TUNIS | Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:51pm EST (Reuters) – The police state apparatus set up by ousted Tunisian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is still in place, rights activists said on Monday, saying a failure to dismantle it […]
By Andrew Hammond TUNIS | Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:06pm GMT (Reuters) – At their union headquarters in central Tunis, journalists long used to rigid censorship meet to ponder the meaning of an era of freedom they never saw coming. “People are […]
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:12 GMT By Andrew Hammond TUNIS, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The sudden exit of ousted Tunisian leader Ben Ali and his family in a popular revolt has left a big hole in the life of the affluent suburbs […]