
From Tunisia, the protests then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation.

The Arab Spring ( Arabic: الربيع العربي, romanized: ar-rabīʻ al-ʻarabī) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. 61,000 deaths in total (International estimate see table below) Djibouti, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Palestine: Protests.Ĭ.Morocco, Algeria and Jordan: Constitutional reforms implemented in response to protests.Kuwait, Lebanon and Oman: Government changes implemented in response to protests.Bahrain: Civil uprising against the government crushed by authorities and Saudi-led intervention.Syria: President Bashar al-Assad faced civil uprising against his rule that deteriorated into armed rebellion and eventual full-scale civil war.Yemen: President Ali Abdullah Saleh ousted, and power handed to a national unity government.Libya: Leader Muammar Gaddafi killed following an eight-month civil war that saw a foreign military intervention and the government overthrown.Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak ousted, arrested, charged, and government overthrown.


Tunisia: President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ousted, charged, exiled and government overthrown.
