Fears for democracy as barely anyone turns up for Tunisia’s elections, the World Cup has vacated the building, and Jordan’s fuel protests turn deadly. Here’s your round-up, written by Abubakr Al-Shamahi, Al Jazeera Digital’s Middle East and North Africa editor.
Over the past decade, Tunisians have repeatedly packed polling stations, queuing for hours, to exercise their hard-won right to vote, in one of the region’s few truly democratic systems. They fought bravely for that right, earning it only after managing to overthrow their long-time leader, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in 2011.
