Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi is rushed to hospital, as his party demands his immediate release.
Mali win penalty shootout after a 1-1 last-16 draw to set up Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinal with Senegal.
Elsewhere in Group C, Tanzania scrape through to the knockout stages for the first time after 1-1 draw with Tunisia.
Nigeria handed nervy ending by Tunisia but hold on to become second team to reach 2025 Africa Cup of Nations knockouts.
Saturday’s AFCON showdown between Nigeria and Tunisia could potentially decide who finishes top of Group C.
Decades after the passing of the UN convention on the elimination of discrimination, systemic racism is still rampant.
The uprisings did not collapse into irrelevance. They transformed how millions understood citizenship and dignity.
Fifteen years on, repression is deeper, dissent is criminalised, but democracy is still the public demand.
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia 15 years ago, after Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself triggering unrest.
Fifteen years after revolution took hold, little remains of the hopes that ignited a region.
![Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/108473126.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
