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Macky Sall vows to preserve democracy as presidential elections near

Senegalese President Macky Sall has pledged not to transgress democracy amid heated debate about a possibility of a third term in office. “I’ve never answered that question in my country, and I’m not going to do it abroad,” Sall told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the Rotterdam conference on climate change, when asked about his […]

Spanish Molins de Rei City Refuses to Host Spain-Israel Water Polo Match

The city of Molins de Rei in Spain has refused to host a scheduled women’s water polo match between Spain and Israel after Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists lobbied for the event to be rejected.   The match that was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon as part of a European preliminary championship ahead of the […]

Rights watchdog calls for investigation into B. Faso massacre linked to gov’t-aligned militias

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling for an investigation into a brutal massacre in Burkina Faso, where dozens of civilians were reportedly killed by government-aligned militias. The attack occurred in the western city of Solenzo, with video footage circulating on social media showing bodies of ethnic Fulani civilians, including women, children and elderly, bound and […]