via BBC News The United States has ordered non-essential diplomatic staff and their families to leave Sudan and Tunisia. In a statement, the state department also urged US citizens in Tunisia to make their way out of the country. The US embassies in the Tunisian and Sudanese capitals have both been attacked in the wave […]

via BBC News Voting has begun in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali. Voters will elect a 217-seat assembly that will draft a new constitution and appoint an interim government. Islamist party Ennahda is expected to win the […]