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…
NEWS: Dozens protest reforms in Sudan
Dozens of Sudanese took to the streets in Khartoum Friday against recent reforms by the government, which they deem anti-Islamic. These reforms include allowing non-Muslims to drink alcohol. “We won’t allow bars to reopen, we…
Malian PM apologises for “excesses” by security forces…
Mali’s prime minister has apologised for “excesses” by security forces who opened fire last week on anti-government protesters, but rejected opposition demands that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resign. Last Friday, the latest in a series…
Thousands of people in DR Congo capital defy…
Thousands of protesters gather in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, four days after five people were killed in banned demonstrations over the choice of a new election chief. Protesters gathered in Boulevard Lumumba, one of…
Mali protest leader calls for calm after demonstrations…
A Malian protest leader called for calm Sunday after four more people were killed during demonstrations calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's resignation, the West African country's worst civil unrest in years. Bloody demonstrations rocked…
Ethiopia to restore toppled UK bust of Emperor…
The Ethiopian embassy in the United Kingdom will restore a bust of the country’s last emperor in a London park. The bust of Haile Selassie was attacked by irate Ethiopians in early July. The Metropolitan…
NEWS: Mali president calls for dialogue amid crippling…
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita went on national television early Saturday, urging dialogue with his opponents just hours after thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the capital with some pushing their way into state television…
Sudan reshuffles cabinet amid mounting economic, protest pressures
Sudan’s transitional government announced a major cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, hoping to defuse public discontent over economic collapse and other crises that have tested the country’s path toward democracy. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok accepted the…
Ethiopia protest death toll 166, mass arrests, net…
Ethiopian police over the weekend were patrolling the country’s troubled Oromia region and the capital, Addis Ababa, following a week of unrest in which 166 people were killed and more than 2,000 arrested, after a…
Breaking: Mali president meets protest leader first time…
The Mali presidency posted a video on Twitter earlier Sunday of the meeting between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Mahmoud Dicko, the leading figure of the protest, in the capital Bamako on Saturday. It was…
Breaking: Normalcy returning to Ethiopia capital, AU speaks,…
Four days since the murder of famed Oromo entertainer Hachalu Hundessa, normalcy is returning to the Ethiopian capital after last few days of deadly protests, bomb blasts and deployment of the army to curb rising…
Over 50 killed in Ethiopia protests, 35 arrested,…
Ethiopia’s prime minister says “several people” have been killed in unrest that followed the killing of a popular singer this week. Some reports say over 50 people were killed. Three bombs exploded in the capital…
Malian protesters continue mass rally demanding president quits
Malian opposition activists turned up in their thousands on Friday marching through the streets of the capital, Bamako, to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The massive response to the anti-government protest comes…
Algeria: taxi drivers slam conditions for operations
Barely allowed to circulate after 3 months of confinement, Algerian taxi drivers are angry. On Monday, they demonstrated at the headquarters of the national union of taxi drivers in Algiers against conditions for resumption of…
Tired Kenyans march against ‘dogged’ police violence
Dozens in Kenya’s capital Nairobi held peaceful demonstrations on Monday against police brutality. Marching through Mathare slums, the demonstrators demanded justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings. According to Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority, at…
Lagosians protest against rape
No fewer than 500 women and men yesterday joined some non governmental organizations in Lagos State to protest the recent rape and killings of young girls in Nigeria. Part of their grievances was the incessant…
Protest against ‘racism and discrimination’ at top SA…
Grade 12 pupils at one of the country’s top private boys' schools, Diocesan College in Cape Town, better known as Bishops, held a protest at the school on Friday against “racism and discrimination”. They also…
News: ”Black Lives Matter” protest hits South Africa
Supporters of the ‘‘Black Lives Matter’‘ movement gathered outside the South African parliament in Cape Town Wednesday. Protesters expressed solidarity with African-American George Floyd in the United States. Floyd, 46, died after a white Minneapolis…
COVID-19 protests spread to Senegal’s capital
Protestors in Dakar set tyres on fire and threw stones at security forces on Wednesday night during protests over a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed almost three months ago because of the coronavirus pandemic. The unrest…
