Tunisia was the one that started it all. When Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in December, it's unlikely he intended to spark a regional upheaval. Protests about unemployment, high food prices and other domestic problems continued at a low level for weeks, exploding in mid-January. In a matter of days, then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country. Tunisia is also now trying to cobble together a provisional government to lead the country until it can hold its first free election in years later this year.
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Countries in the Middle East where the 'winds of change' are blowing
Those who said that 'winds of change' were blowing through the Middle East were right. The past two months have seen a series of stunning political shifts across the region and are now reverberating along the North African coast, through the Gulf, and up into the Levant. Here is a look at where those 'winds of change' are taking us.
Tunisia
