Oral presentation

BACKGROUND:

Emergency law and Police brutality: police brutality has been common in Africa. The torture is legalized in a lot of these countries

- Globalitzation and internet: Wikileaks Anonymous and Faceboook. With the internet the groups could organize themselfe very quickly and change information. The young people see what is really happening in the modern world and don’t want to be governed from a tyrant.

- Inheritance of power and corruption in the elections: a lot of presidents in these countries were president for twenty or thirty years: manipulation of the election results have occurred during many of the elections. For example until 2005, Mubarak was the only candidate to run for the presidency. Only a 25% of the population of the country voted.

- Restrictions on free speech and press: there were a lot of sanctions . If any reporter or blogger violates this law by criticizing the government, they could be up to five years in prison.

- Demographic and economic challenges

Unemployment: there are a lot of young people and even when they have education it’s very difficult to reach a job. For that reason there are poor living and economic conditions.

EGYPT:
The protests begun on 25th of January and they take place for 18 days.

25 January 2011: The "Day of Revolt": there were thousands of protesters in Cairo and thousands more in cities throughout Egypt.The aren’t violence.

On day later is "Shutting down The Internet and Mobile Services": because they organizes groups and protests in Facebook. By this way the government impede the flow of news and people.

28 January 2011: The "Friday of Anger" after Friday prayers thousand people begun to protest Opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei arrived in Cairo. Prisons were opened and burned down and a lot of prisoners could escaped The police and the military were on the streets. Mubarak pledged to form a new government.

1 February 2011: Mubarak made a televised address. He propose to not run for another term in the elections planned for September, and to do political reforms and that he would stay in office to realize this changes. Small but violent clashes began that night between pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak groups.

One day later the violence escalated at the : "Battle of the Camel between anti-Mubarak, pro-Mubarak groups and the Police. There was the speculation that the violence was being encouraged by Mubarak as a way to bring the protests to an end.

10 February 2011: Mubarak said that he would give some of his powers to Vice President Suleiman, but continuing as Egypt's head of state. This caused angry and frustration and in different cities there was an escalation of the number and intensity of demonstrations.

The next day, The "Friday of Departure": at 6:00 pm local time, Suleiman announced Mubarak's resignation.

13 February 2011: The Supreme Council dissolved Egypt’s parliament and suspended the Constitution in response to demands by demonstrators. The council declared that it would hold power for six months, or until elections could be held.

3 March 2011: The Prime Minister and was replaced by Essam Sharaf.

19 March 2011: The constitutional referendum was held and passed by 77.27%.^[112]

8 April 2011: The "Friday of Cleansing": Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled Tahrir Square for the largest protest in weeks again filled Tahrir Square, criticizing the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces for not following through on revolutionary demands.

There die nearly 400 people

Self-avaluation:

In this last oral presentation I felt more self-secure. Maybe it was because I had practised this one more like the others, but in fact I do this presentation very easy. Sometimes, when I forget a part of my text I improvise and say some other word which means the same.

But I didn't like the topic of this oral presentation. I know that we had chosen it, but I mean the topic of social topic because it's always the same things. But, on the other side, the rebellions are a recent topic and it was interesting to know more about them.

In conclusion I think that I was more secure and had explained myself better like in the other oral presentations.