What is happening in Egypt?

Answer 1

Answer 1

What is happen in Egypt is the president that was the president is resigning from the president and they cut off the internet and wont let them call or tell people about there problem they wont let people in to Egypt of out and no one can come.

Answer 2

In 1987, President Ben Ali became the second President of Tunisia since the country's independence from France. Ben Ali has been in power for 23 years.

Last December, Muhammad Al Bouazizi, a 26 year old unemployed Tunisian who couldn't find a job after graduating from school, was selling fruit on the side of the street in effort to support himself and his family. Al Bouazizi's efforts to overcome poverty were stopped by a policeman who confiscated his fruits because he didn't have a license to sell them. Deprived of his fruit and therefore job, he couldn't support his family. out of desperation, he doused himself with highly flammable liquid and torched himself in front of a government building. After lingering for a little over two weeks in a mostly roasted state, he died.

His death sparked weeks of protests, which then grew into one of the largest anti-government uprisings against an authoritarian regime in the recent history of the Arab world. Ben Ali led Tunisia during a time of stability, but critics argue that much of it came at the cost of his citizens' freedoms. He led a secular government which crushed Tunisia's Islamist movement through widespread crackdowns, arrests and torture. Tunisians lived in fear of Ben Ali's vast security services where political prisoners often faced years of torture and isolation. There is no freedom of the press and little freedom for the country's citizens.

The uproar in Tunisia began as small, localized protests but as the weeks passed, it grew larger and larger. The police force tried to control its upset citizens by beating and arresting them and Tunisian citizens filmed and photographed these beatings and posted them on Facebook and Twitter. Protesters eventually began challenging the oppression of Ben Ali's regime itself. By Jan. 14, with thousands of angry Tunisians on the streets of the capital demanding the ouster of their leader, Ben Ali and several members of his family fled the country...and now Tunisia has a new president.

So....Egypt was inspired this. Egypt is supposed to be a democratic country but their president, Mubarak, had been in power for 30 years and his son had been appointed to succeed him. "Sounds more like a monarchy, don't you think?" The Egyptians wanted to oust their dictating president so it joined other protesters across the Arab world (in Algeria, notably) in protesting their autocratic governments, high levels of corruption, and grinding poverty. In Egypt, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets.

Why are Egyptians unhappy? They have basically no more freedom than Tunisians. Egypt is ranked 138th of 167 countries on The Economist's Democracy index, a widely accepted measure of political freedom. That ranking puts Egypt just seven spots ahead of Tunisia and Egyptians are significantly poorer than the Tunisians.