Tunisia Unrest Stirs Passions Across North African Region
Passions unleashed by the revolution in Tunisia continued to resonate across the region on Tuesday as a man in Cairo was reported to have set himself ablaze, the latest apparent imitation of the self-immolation that set off the uprising here a month ago.
On Monday, an Egyptian and a Mauritanian became the fifth and sixth North Africans to burn themselves. On Tuesday, security officials in Cairo said an Egyptian man, seemingly inspired by events in Tunisia, set himself on fire outside the prime minister’s office in the center of the Egyptian capital…