Egypt- What's the Big Deal??

This post is going to be about the Egypt Revolution 2011 following a popular uprising that began on 25 January 2011 featuring a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, labour strikes and violent clashes between protesters and security.

The Revolution was triggered when police forces beat to death a young man. Then the people of Egypt rose up in protest, and then finally, dictator Mubarak fell from power. Apparently, he had already lost the will to govern tthe country when his young nephew died after being on a coma. However although he had lost the will to govern, he was still determined to hold on but when so many citizens began to rebel, he resigned from his post. That is a summary of how the Revolution of Egypt began.

But why has this become such a big hoo-ha?? There was also uprising in Tunisia, but hardly anyone knows about it. But Eygpt has become such a big isssue because it has lots of resources and lots of countries including heavyweights on USA depend on those resources. Therefore if the people rebel, they might make their own decisions and maybe not want to supply them with resources anymore.

Egypt has huge reserves of natural gas, and liquified nitrogen gas is exported to many countries. Egypt has also developed an energy market based on coal, oil, natural gas and hydro power. There is also substantial coal deposits in northeast Sinai and are mined at a rate of 600,000 metric tons per year.

Therefore with all these resources, no wonder so many countries are so concerned about the uprising in Egypt.