anarchy in africa

							STARTER: Unscramble these anagrams and then
work out what links the eight words together:


           byial      Libya
           gyetp      Egypt
           nsaiitu    Tunisia
           ilo        oil
           loenvcie   violence
           irots      riots
           rsunet     unrest
           yaahnrc    anarchy
Anarchy in Africa!

What’s it all about? What’s
it got to do with me?
          Anarchy in Africa!
Step 1: Cut out your map of North Africa and glue it
into your exercise book.
          Anarchy in Africa!
Step 2: Colour the sea in blue (check in the Atlas if
you’re not sure!)
          Anarchy in Africa!
Step 3: Colour in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and add
their capital cities.
           Anarchy in Africa!
Step 4: Use your handout to work out the story.
Each country has 3 cards and you should be able
to sort them into chronological (time) order. You do
not have to write out the full answer, just the letters!
TUNISIA – DEC/JAN                         EGYPT– JAN/FEB                                LIBYA– FEB - ?
c A desperate act by a young              e The protests began on 25 January 2011       g Huge anti-government protests have
unemployed man on 17 December             when Egyptians gathered in the capital        been raging throughout Libya. Crowds
triggered a series of protests and        city Cairo after an internet campaign. It     of demonstrators have been demanding
clashes with the police. The man set      was inspired by the protests in Tunisia in    that their leader, Colonel Gaddafi, quits.
fire to himself when officials in his     the same month. The police used water         Libyan troops have been accused of
town prevented him from selling           cannon and tear gas to try to stop the        opening fire on protesters in the city of
vegetables on the streets of Sidi         protesters, and the government imposed        Benghazi and estimates suggest that
Bouzid without permission. This set       a curfew - an order that means everyone       over 230 people have died. On 20th
off protests about jobs and the rising    has to be indoors after a certain time of     February, protests reached the
cost of food. These demonstrations        day. But the people ignored the               country's capital, Tripoli
then spread elsewhere.                    government and even more
                                          demonstrations happened in Cairo,             b It's hard to find out exactly what's
h But the violent response of the         Alexandria, Suez and Ismailiya.               going on in Libya because officials there
authorities - with the police opening                                                   have put loads of restrictions on the
fire on demonstrators - appears to        d On 2 February, supporters of the            media and there aren't many foreign
have made people more angry and           government surged into Tahrir Square in       journalists there. The violence used by
ignited further protests. The unrest is   Cairo and violent fighting broke out          troops has been criticised by the UK,
also seen as being about problems         between them and the protesters.              America and other western nations.
with the ruling elite and the             Around 300 people were killed in the first
suppression of political freedoms.        10 days of clashes. On 11 February,           a Col Gaddafi has been in power for
The clashes became much more              Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman          more than 40 years and is the longest-
deadly on the weekend of 8-9              announced on Egyptian TV that President       serving leader in the Arab world. On
January, and then spread to the           Mubarak was stepping down. It was             20th February one of his sons appeared
capital Tunis.                            announced that the military would run the     on TV saying his father wouldn't give up
                                          country for the time being.                   power without a fight. He said people
i A new government has now been                                                         were trying to copy the recent
formed in Tunisia, after President        f There are lots of other countries in that   demonstrations in Egypt and claimed
Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled the          region that also don't have democracies -     that only a few had died in the clashes
country. Some people are still angry      that's when the people choose the             between protesters and the army.
because several ministers from the        government, like here in the UK. Their        Libya is the latest country to find itself
former ruling party have been kept in     leaders might be worried about people         up against a wave of anti-government
key ministerial positions.                rising up against them in their countries,    protests, following the similar
                                          now that Egyptians have.                      demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia.
          Anarchy in Africa!
Step 5: Annotate (label) your map with key places,
times and events.
                Anarchy in Africa!
Step 6: Now answer the following questions in full sentences. Your
responses can be levelled!!

1. Summarise the cause of unrest for each of the three countries.
   Are the three events linked?
2. What was the outcome of each country’s unrest?
3. What are the implications (effects) of these events? Try to think
   about
       a. social (people)
       b. Environmental
       c. economic (money)
       d. and political.
4. Who were the winners and who were the losers in each case?
   Explain your answer.
5. What has all of this got to do with us? Are we affected and, if
   so, how?
             Anarchy in Africa!
FINALLY...

If time, we’ll look at this interactive map to see how
the BBC have presented similar information to ours: