what is this happening on our continent? which country next? how?

LIBYA: Protests Escalate With Fires, Gunfire Reported

Reports from Libya indicate the more than 40-year-rule of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is under siege from an escalating popular uprising that is turning violent and destructive.

Witnesses in the Libyan capital say the country's legislative branch is among government buildings set on fire as opposition activists battled security forces and government supporters. Gunfire has been reported in the capital.

• Libyan jets 'fire on protesters in Tripoli'
• Bloody battle leaves second city Benghazi 'totally out of control'
• Two Libyan fighter pilots defect to Malta after being told to attack civilians
• Gaddafi's own diplomats at the UN turn on dictator and say he should go
• Up to 400 feared dead after dozens killed in clashes
• Libyan guards on border with Egypt 'abandon their posts'
• Analysts say the end is nigh for dictator as his forces prepare assault
• David Cameron declares regime response is 'appalling and unacceptable'
• Gaddafi's son says: 'We will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet'

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Africa's madman is firing on his own people. This surely will be the end of Gadaffi and his crazy, violent regime!! And where is the Africa Union? Where is the moral outrage from peace-loving and democratic Governments on our continent? Let us hear them and denounce the massacres taking place on our very own doorstep.

One thing that's happening, Rafiki, is that ordinary people, citizens have lost fear of their subjugators and oppressors, and are saying with one voice that "enough is enough". After all, “he who is brave is free" as Seneca so wisely observed in the middle of the 1st century AD and we human beings are driven innately by a desire for freedom.

Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, Libya and now in Morocco.....

Right now they are what is loosely the Magreb region of Africa and spilling into the middle east

Analysis: The hurricanes of change and the new world order they may help create

No, we don’t mean “New World Order” in the Illuminati-Conspiracy theorists’ apocalyptic sense. Rather we mean the magnitude and extent of current events in the Maghreb and Middle East are already changing the way the world worked until several months ago. Now it is going to work differently. J BROOKS SPECTOR analyses recent events against historical backdrops.


Some day, students may take their graduation photos and newlyweds their wedding pictures in front of monuments to Mohamed Bouazizi in cities throughout the Middle East, as ubiquitous as busts of Lenin and those statues of the heroic peasants, workers and soldiers that used to occupy public squares across Eastern and Central Europe.

But, these monuments to Bouazizi will have been erected in the name of a better cause, the 21st century’s liberation from authoritarian government of a vast arc of territory stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf littoral. “Bouazizi?” you ask. He is the man who quite literally set the “Arab street” ablaze by his despairing suicide in Tunisia on 4 January 2011 - the precipitating cause being the eternal bureaucratic harassment he had endured in trying to carry out a fruit-and-vegetable peddling business.

By now, it has become almost impossible to keep track of all the incidents, major and minor, impacting on the high-speed kaleidoscope of events in that region.

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/ar...ay-help-create

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to attack anti-government protesters, but the opposition groups appear to be gaining more of a foothold, despite the brutal crackdown.

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Libyan rebels clashed with pro-government forces in eastern Libya on Wednesday as leader Moammar Gadhafi again defied demands to step down .... Read more

The Arab League is rejecting any direct outside military intervention in Libya, but says it would consider backing a “no-fly zone." .... Read more