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Libya's Arab spring: the revolution that ate its children Four years after Muammar Gaddafi was killed, the high hopes of Libya’s activists have crumbled as Isis fills the vacuum left by scrapping militias Libyans wave national flags on Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli as hundreds of people demonstrated in support of the UN-brokered dialogue between warring factions. Photograph: Hamza Turkia/Hamza Turkia/Xinhua Press/Corbis Chris Stephen in Tunis Monday 16 February 2015 12.02 EST Last modified on Monday 16 February 2015 12.19 EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 73 “It was better under Gaddafi,” says the young Libyan student, studying the froth bubbling over the top of his cappuccino in a cafe in Tunis as he contemplates the revolution that swept Muammar Gaddafi from power four years ago. “I never thought to say this before, I hated him, but things...

University student jailed for insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta

courtesy of | NATION MEDIA GROUP A fourth-year university student will spend two years in jail for posting on social media unprintable insults against President Uhuru Kenyatta. Alan Wadi Okengo, alias Lieutenant Wadi, was accused of posting the messages on his Facebook account on December 18 and 19 at an unknown place within Kenya. Wadi, 25, a political science student at Moi University, was arrested as he attempted to sneak out of the country through the Busia border on December 31. He was brought back to Nairobi CID headquarters where he was interrogated by cybercrime police sleuths. Wadi, who looked composed, told Milimani Law Courts resident magistrate Ms Ann Kaguru that he was ready to “apologise to President Kenyatta personally if he was not handed down a custodial sentence.” The charge against the university student stated that “the message he sent was calculated to to bring into contempt the lawful authority of the President of the Republic of Ke...

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