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[News] Is the Arab Awkening from the Jasmine Revolution Heading South?

Here’s several articles that speculate on the possibility of these amazing people-powered revolutions spreading South into Sub-Saharan Africa.

The video above is unauthenticated but purports to show thugs sponsored by Paul Biya, Cameroon’s dictator for over 30 years, brutalizing Kah Walla, the country’s first-ever female presidential candidate, by being shot by a high pressure jet mixed with yet-to-be-determined chemicals from an unidentified vehicle. More on the video:

She sustained serious injuries and had to undergo treatment at a private clinic in the city of Douala on the Atlantic Coast.

Biya’s brutal and repressive regime routinely makes use of deadly force on unarmed civilians. It is not until now that the people of this oil-rich country have become aware of the power of social media like Facebook and Youtube that they feel empowered to stand up to Biya’s hired thugs.

Videos like this and more are sure to surface in the coming days, giving the world a glimpse of what it is like to live under a repressive regime in the 21st century. These thugs act in the exact same manner as Charles Taylor’s rebels did in the mid 90s in Liberia and Sierra Leone.”

Related reading:

Jasmine Revolution heading south? [FT.com’s beyondbrics blog]

– Philip Gourevitch: “Watching the uprisings and upheavals that have threatened entrenched regimes in North Africa and the Middle East in recent weeks, Africa hands have quietly wondered whether the trend might head south.” [New Yorker]

– Jennifer Wells: Young and restless: Africa at risk for upheaval [Toronto Star]

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