What Is Left Of The Arab Springs

Clockwise from left: Tunisians yesterday, carry portraits of assassinated opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, gather to mark the third anniversary of the uprising that toppled deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Sidi Bouzid's Mohamed Bouazizi square. A Tunisian man prays at the graveside of 26-year-old street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation three years ago led to the uprising. Tunisian cigarette vendor Adel Khadri sits on the ground after immolating himself in an act of desperation on a street in Tunis on March 12, 2013 hours before lawmakers were to vote on a new government to pull Tunisia out of political crisis. Photo: Afp

BAHRAIN

•     Protest movement erupted on February 14, 2011
•     Protest put down a month later
•     Shiite majority contests the ruling Sunni dynasty to this day

EGYPT

•     President Hosni Mubarak handed over to the army on February 11, 2011
•     Almost 850 died in the general revolt
•     First freely elected President Mohammed Morsi ousted by armed forces on July 03, 2013
•     More than 1,000 (mainly Morsi supporters) killed in street clashes since

LIBYA

•     Authorities struggled to maintain order since Moamer Gaddafi's regime collapse in October 2011
•     They rely on former rebel groups
•     The armed militias challenge the state if their interests are threatened

SYRIA

•     Shiite Muslims pitted against Sunnis after peaceful protests transformed to all-out war since March
  2011's brutal crack-down headed by President Bashar al-Assad
•     Millions displaced and more than 126,000 dead

TUNISIA

•     Birthplace of the “Arab Spring”
•     Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled on January 14, 2011
•     Still without a strong central government
•     A constituent assembly dominated by Islamists from the Ennahda party was elected in October 2011
  Beset by chronic social unrest and political crises
•     Two opposition figures murdered this year

YEMEN

•     President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down in February 2012
•     Still struggling to establish a new constitution under a UN- and Gulf-backed transition
•     The main sticking point is southern Yemen's demand for autonomy