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Censorship and preemptive actions
Ethiopia
Following Ben Ali’s flight from Tunisia, the Ethiopian government said there would be a cap on the prices of essential foods.
Journalist Eskinder Nega was warned after he wrote about the events in Egypt. He was subsequently imprisoned for criticising human rights abuses in Ethiopia.
Equatorial Guinea
The government of Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled the Equatorial Guinea for 32 years, censored news about the protests.
Eritrea
The state-owned news agency censors news about the events. Independent media has been banned since 2001.[108]
Kazakhstan
On 31 January 2011, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev decided to scrap a referendum which would have handed him a third decade in power by skipping elections due in 2012 and 2017. Nazarbayev supported the Constitutional Council’s ruling that such a referendum would be unconstitutional and called an early election to be held on 3 April 2011.[110] He also planned to offer the citizens of Kazakhstan discounted shares in some key national companies as part of a series of “People’s IPOs” saying that “This is an event of paramount importance to the state…The whole world is earning money on stock markets and citizens of Kazakhstan should also learn how to do this.” However, some critics suggested this was “window dressing”, saying Nazarbayev merely was trying to deflect claims that too much wealth was controlled by a “corrupt, ruling elite. News media in South Africa have warned of a possible “Egypt effect” in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Nigeria
The media in Nigeria speculated that similar events could take place there as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta in the south or Boko Haram in the north could exploit the “distortions within the Nigerian system, and the anger of an aggrieved segment of the populace.” In the first week of February Boko Haram also threatened the Nigerian government that it would carry out a “full scale war.”
Turkmenistan
At least one well-regarded political analyst (published by Foreign Policy and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) said that conditions in the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan were similar enough to those in countries currently experiencing protests and revolts that the autocratic government of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov appears worried by the precedent of revolutions in North Africa and major political concessions in several Western Asian states. Berdimuhamedov’s regime has censored all news of the protests and governmental changes. There have also been some credible reports of Turkmenistani authorities attempting to keep tabs on all citizens both inside and outside the country, with Turkmenistanis whom the government judges to have spent too much time abroad allegedly warned they could be barred either from returning to their home country, or from leaving again once they do return.
Uzbekistan
The Uzbekistani government embraced a set of parliamentary reforms in late March that will grant the Legislative Chamber of the Supreme Assembly, a democratically elected body, a stronger ability to check the power of the prime minister by allowing it to call a motion of no confidence, as well as empowering both houses of the Supreme Assembly to “demand information” from the executive branch, according to one Uzbekistani senator involved with the reform initiative. At least one prominent political analyst at an Interior Ministry-affiliated university in Tashkent said the reforms were inspired by recent revolutionary events in the Middle East and Kyrgyzstan, asserting that democratization and government accountability and not violence are the means to forestalling popular upheaval.
Political fallout
France
On 28 February 2011 French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie resigned after a month of pressure following allegations she offered French military assistance to ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and that she vacationed in Tunisia during the unrest.[116]
Israel
As the protests in Egypt began, IDF Intelligence Chief Aviv Kochavi stated the Egyptian government was not in danger of collapsing.[117] As a result, the Israeli government ordered a probe into the intelligence failures.[118]
United Kingdom
The London School of Economics’ Howard Davies resigned over the institution’s monetary support from Libya.
United States
President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other high-ranking officials and government agencies were caught by surprise over the uprisings, accused of presiding over a massive intelligence failure and being caught “flat footed.” Panetta, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg, Director of Intelligence James Clapper,[125] and FBI Director Robert Mueller appeared before the 112th Congress’s first House Permanent Select Committee of Intelligence hearing to testify about Egypt.
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