 Ramba uchiverenga ndima ino - Mushure mekunge Tunisia yachinja kamwe kamwe muna 2011, kuratidzira kwakaitika munenge munyika dzose dzechiArabhu. Mafungu okuratidzira akazivikanwa seArab Spring, uye kubata kweArab Spring kwakaita basa guru mumutemo waObama wokunze. Pashure pemasvondo matatu emhirizhonga, Mutungamiri weEgypt Hosni Mubarak akasiya basa pakurudziro yaMutungamiri Obama. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi akazopedzisira atora masimba kubva kuMutungamiri weEgypt Mohammed Morsi muna 2013 coup détat, zvichikurudzira US kuti igure zvombo zvinotumirwa kumubatanidzwa wayo wenguva refu. Zvisinei, Obama akatangazve kutumira zvinhu muna 2015. Yemen yakava neshandukouye ipapo hondo yevagari vemo, ichitungamirira kuhondo yechiuto yeSaudi iyo yakagamuchira rubatsiro rwokugadzira zvinhu uye ruzivo kubva kuUnited States. Hurumende yaObama yakazivisa chinangwa chayo chekudzokorora rubatsiro rwemauto eU.S. kuSaudi Arabia mushure mekunge ndege dzehondo dzeSaudi dzarwisa mariro muguta guru reYemen, Sanaa, kuuraya vanhu vanopfuura zana nemakumi mana. UN yakapomera mubatanidzwa unotungamirirwa neSaudi kusava nehanya zvachose noupenyu hwevanhu. 