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 […]
Violence erupted in Sudan as what seemed like a peaceful protest turned ugly as per individual was reportedly killed after mass protest against dire living conditions and growing poverty rate in the country. There has not yet been any condemning for the saints,” said one dissenter. “We requested opportunity, harmony and equity and neither accomplish […]
There has been series of pandemonium in Nigeria right from the day the ongoing protest began in the city of Lagos before it spread like wildfire all over Nigeria. Yesterday at lekki there were over 30 deaths mostly protesters as the Nigerian soldiers shot at innocent protesters, not only in lekki but all over Nigeria. […]
Namibian police fired rubber bullets, teargas and used batons to subdue the unparalleled and three-day nationwide protest staged on Saturday Adding to the aid of around four hundred by and large younger female – who raised their voices against gender-based violence and femicide on the streets of the nation’s capital city, Windhoek. Slogans and placards […]
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. […]
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 […]
Violence broke out in Kinshasa on Friday, near the Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as police subdued a rally of protesters demanding the immediate expulsion of new Rwandan ambassador, Vincent Karega. They are accusing the ambassador of being a records revisionist claiming he has denied Rwanda’s role in the numerous massacres of […]
Hundreds of human beings should be observed marching in the streets of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the japanese area of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday. They raised their voices in harmony with Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr Denis Mukwege – who has been the target of dying threats due […]
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Khartoum on Monday, marking a year since a transitional power-sharing deal was struck in Sudan. The demonstrators are unsatisfied with the current government and are demanding quickened political reform. It was later reported police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. The crowds, waving Sudanese flags, gathered […]
Political Unrest President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has come under fire over its perceived-harsh crackdown on demonstrators last month against alleged state corruption and economic hardship last month – which saw 20 citizens arrested and charged with inciting public violence arrested for partaking in the banned protests – to be later released on bail. Abel Chikomo, […]
Thousands of human beings proven again on Tuesday in Mali’s capital Bamako, traumatic the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, who got here to electricity in 2013. Protesters not noted calls from the Economic Unity of West African States corporation to locate an choice way out of the crisis that has shaken Mali considering the […]
A massive crowd validated in the centre of the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Saturday, demanding accountability for Tuesday’s large explosion in the city. More than one hundred fifty human beings died and some other 5,000 were injured; any other 60 are still missing. The purpose of the explosion nonetheless is not definitely clear, but it is […]
Amnesty International criticized the Zimbabwean authorities’ arrest of several human-rights activists who took phase in protests Friday in opposition to state corruption. “The thwarting of the protest illustrates the Zimbabwean authorities’ complete intolerance of criticism,” Muleya Mwananyanda, the human rights organization’s deputy director for southern Africa, stated in an emailed statement. He described the arrests […]
The International Crisis Group has urged dialogue between the Algerian government and the anti-regime movement ‘‘Hirak’‘ to avoid what it calls a major economic crisis. The Group cites the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and a fall in oil prices. Algeria is exposed to fluctuations in oil prices due to its dependence on the commodity, […]
Members of Mali’s opposition movement on Monday, announced plans to suspend all demonstrations in the country, as members gear up towards the Muslim festival, Eid-ul Adha. The leaders of the group resolved to withhold all activates till the end of July. A move they say is not a show of weakness, but respect for the […]
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 won’t allow prostitution again. This people are Muslims, and this is the voice of the people”, Mostafa Tal al-Sir, a […]
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 of mass protests in the capital Bamako against Keita turned violent, with security forces firing on protesters, some of whom […]
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 killings by policemen. Carrying placards with inscriptions like “So long as girls and women are not free, no one is […]
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 police officer pressed his knee against the handcuffed unarmed black man’s neck as he cried that he couldn’t breathe. “The […]