Tunisia (SciDev) – By Harriet Lamb Mapping project shows the most effective peace tech is driven by young people themselves, says Harriet Lamb. “Here we have drug problems, we have terrorism, but we want young people to change their minds…
Tunisia (GV) – The regime of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia was infamous for mass surveillance practices. Yet almost six years after the regime’s ousting, and despite the 2014 adoption of a constitution that grants all citizens the right…
By normalising the use of drones, the US might be planting a seed that people in the Arab world reject: the seed of arbitrariness.
Despite the large criticism directed toward the unabated use of armed drones as a weapon of choice in the “global war against terror”, led by the United States, the recent revelations about the establishment of a US drone base in Tunisia show that their use is expanding.
This information comes after the announcement of the construction of a 100 million drone base in Agadez, in the centre of Niger, indicating an increase of counterterrorist drone operations in north-west Africa. Although governments in the region have publically claimed they are not hosting US bases, there remains little doubt that such bases do exist at least in Niger and Tunisia, signalling an unconstrained and dangerous expansion.
Five years ago, today, it began. The uprisings had no master narrative – they were a series of micronarratives produced by ordinary people.
