The popular uprisings that recently erupted in Algeria and Sudan are reminiscent of the so-called Arab Spring wave of revolutions which swept through the Middle East earlier this decade.
Now, as then, millions of demonstrators came out onto the streets, not necessarily because they knew what they wanted to push for, but because they simply had enough of corrupt regimes which failed to deliver either prosperity or social mobility.
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