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Uganda: Police crackdown on anti-corruption protest, youth activists defy govt’s threats

Ugandan police forcefully detained dozens of protesters at an anti-corruption rally in the capital city of Kampala on Tuesday (23 July), as people rallied against the government’s corruption, ignoring warnings by police and President Yoweri Museveni. Organizers and participants of a planned march against corruption on Tuesday defied a ban on anti-government protests — inspired […]

US, AU seek diplomatic solution to Sudan’s political crisis

Diplomats from the United States and the African Union have intensified pressure on Sudan’s Transitional Military Council that is currently trying to resolve a standoff with protesters. The diplomatic push comes after the umbrella body for Sudanese protest groups, the Forces for Freedom and Change, said it will only restart talks with the ruling junta […]

Tunisia: Former presidential candidate Safi Saïd released after one day in prison

On August 22, the Tunisian judiciary ordered the release of opposition politician Safi Saïd. Saïd, a former candidate in the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections who withdrew from this year’s race, had been arrested on August 20 for “illegally crossing the border into Algeria.” The 70-year-old writer and critic of the current Tunisian president was […]