The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Popular rapper, M.I, has given reason he did not join the #EndSARS protest led by Falz over police brutality and extra-judicial killings. Falz alongside Runtown and other Nigerian celebrities took to the streets of Lagos on Thursday, protesting against operations of SARS. The protesters carried placards and chanted “End SARS” songs. They stormed Police Headquarters […]
Protests During a Pandemic Around 400 to 500 demonstrators took to the streets of Algiers on Monday in defiance of a nationwide ban on protests to demand democratic change as they also called for the release of over 60 members of the Hirak anti-government movement that saw president Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down last year. The […]
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Sudan’s capital Monday, worrying the departure of the transitional government. According to eyewitnesses and photos on social media, protection forces mounted a cordon in front of the presidential palace and the headquarters of the Sudanese Army in Khartoum. The protesters held banners pronouncing “Down with the government […]
Sudanese protesters shut the Southern Port of Sudan on Sunday in protest of a recently-signed peace deal with insurrection groups. On Saturday, the Sudanese transitional government signed a power-sharing deal with the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance of riot groups, in the course of a ceremony held in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. […]
Sensational singer, Naira Marley has revealed what will happen to him if he decides to protest against injustice meted on youths by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Marley had on Saturday criticised Nigerians trending ‘EndSARS’ hashtags rather than going out to protest. “In this country, we love protesting on twitter. That’s the problem.” […]
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday met with Belarus’ opposition leader in Lithuania during an respectable visit. Macron mentioned with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya the ongoing political disaster in Belarus, promising assist with negotiations and the release of political prisoners. The French president convened the early morning meeting in the capital Vilnius. Tikhanovskaya had launched a assertion […]
The chief of the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) party, Maurice Kamto, is traumatic an clarification from the Cameroonian government — in an interview Monday, for what he perceives to be a de facto residence arrest in mild of deployed regulation enforcement patrolling his dwelling day and night time following demonstrations with the […]
Protesters gathered outside the Casablanca Appeal Court on Tuesday, as Moroccan investigative journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi appeared to be questioned by an examining magistrate. Radi was first tried in March and was given a four-month suspended sentence after he was arrested for a tweet in which he criticized a judge for upholding […]
Police on Tuesday used tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest by hundreds of people in Cameroon’s economic capital Douala calling for an end to bloodshed in the country’s anglophone regions. Several parties, including that of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, had called for “peaceful marches” against President Paul Biya, 87, who has […]
Opposition Unite? Former Ivorian Prime Minister and candidate for the upcoming presidential election on October 31, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, 67, is yet another politician declaring his outrage at the Constitutional Council’s decision to deem the sought third term of the current president as valid — when, to many, it is unconstitutional. Pascal Affi N’Guessan: “I […]
All military personnel have been put on alert in Cameroon for four days starting Monday, over fears the Tuesday protests could cause severe public disorder. Members of the government have been quick to criticise the call for protests made by opposition leader Maurice Kamto, labelling his movement as an insurrection, forbidding all demonstrations, menacing any […]
Supporters of the current Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara gathered in Paris to show their support to their candidate. Ouattara who came to power in 2010, following the refusal of former president Laurent Gbagbo to step down, has long been praised by his supporters as Ivory Coast’s savior, especially for his social work. ” He’s […]
Ethiopia has introduced it will have interaction legal hobbies towards opposition leaders, along with Jawar Mohammed et Bekele Gerba of the Oromo Federalist Congress members. Terrorism and telecom fraud-related prices that relate to the lethal unrest that erupted in July. Following the killing of singer Hachalu Hundessa, parts of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the […]
Guinea’s opposition movement announced a new round of protests from late September, just weeks ahead of a presidential election. The movement is opposing President Alpha Conde’s controversial bid to run for a third term in the October 18 vote. Clashes erupted last October, claiming several dozen lives, after the 82-year-old leader pushed through constitutional reforms […]
A Doctor Mysteriously Dies in Police Custody Angola’s Doctors’ Union led around a hundred protesters in a march thru the city centre in Luanda on Saturday to denounce police brutality and demand an investigation into the suspicious demise of Silvio Dala in police custody after he used to be arrested for using except a face […]
Mauritians took to the streets of Mahébourg for the second time in a month on Saturday in frustration over the perceived government mishandling of the devastating oil spills brought on from the 1000-tonne fuel-carrying Japanese Wakashio — which was once shipwrecked in the waters off the southeast coast of the island in July therefore placing […]
The US metropolis of Portland in the kingdom of Oregon has end up the present day town to be a part of the facial recognition ban with the broadest measures so a ways in the nation, as protests against racial injustices proceed to ravage the city. The Portland City Council announced Wednesday with two ordinances […]
Members of Spain’s hospitality area protested Wednesday to draw interest to the precarious role it finds itself in in the course of the 2d wave of the pandemic as the country said another surge in COVID-19 infections. Thousands who work at bars, restaurants, lodges and nightclubs protested on Madrid streets while others across the us […]