During the Presidenty of Barak H Obama, the countries in North Africa and Middle-East experienced what is now called the Arab Spring.
These were small-scale protests by people against the government. Most people stood up against what they believed what injustice by Dictators. These eventually turned into Pro-Democracy protests and in some extreme cases turned into a civil war.
The original protests started in Tunisa and resulted in the removal of a dictator. They spread across to Egypt where Husni Mubarak was jailed and Muslim Brotherhood took over. Eventually the army stepped in and Egypt again is a dictatorship.
In Libya, it led to a full scale civil war which led to the capture and death of Gaddafi.
