Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Faransa, tsohon mai mulkin mallaka na Tunisia, ya ƙi yin Allah wadai da yunƙurin Shugaba Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali na tarwatsa masu zanga-zanga a cikin ƙasarsa da ƙarfi a watan Janairun 2011 kafin juyin juya halin Tunisiya; Ministan Harkokin Waje Michèle Alliot-Marie ya ce Faransawa "bai kamata su yi fice ba a matsayin masu ba da darasi" a Tunisia, yayin da ministan aikin gona na Faransa ya kare Ben Ali, yana cewa, "Shugaba Ben Ali wani ne da ake yawan kushe shi, [amma] ya yi abubuwa da yawa". Gwamnatin Faransa daga baya ta taka rawar gani wajen tallafawa adawa da Kanar Muammar al-Gaddafi a Libya, ta kafa kawance mai bangarori uku tare da Burtaniya da Lebanon a Kwamitin Tsaro na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya don samun nasarar shiga tsakani na soja na kasa da kasa
, duk da cewa Peru ce kasa ta farko da ta yanke huldar da ke tsakaninta da gwamnatin Tripoli a kan murkushe masu zanga-zangar Libya a watan Fabrairun 2011.