On Oct. 10, 2010, at an Afro-Arab joint summit in the Libyan coastal city of Surt, more than two dozen Arab and African leaders posed together for a group picture. What a difference seven years has made. In a sign of the changes that have swept the region, many of those leaders are gone. Some have been killed, others forcibly removed from power, and still others banished from their homelands. Here is what happened to the front row, from left to right: The former army commander has been in power in Sudan since seizing control in a coup in 1989, as a long-running conflict was raging between the country’s north and south. When that conflict was settled in a 2005 deal, another erupted in Sudan’s ...
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