Tag: Protests

Nigerian Authorities detain Polish nationals over alleged foreign flag display during protests

August 9, 2024

Nigerian security forces have detained seven Polish nationals, including six students and a lecturer, for allegedly displaying Russian flags during recent protests against economic hardship. ... Read More

Kenya’s president dismisses almost entire cabinet amid simmering discontent

July 12, 2024

Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday (11 July) fired almost all the ministers in his cabinet, including the attorney general, with immediate effect and promised ... Read More

Guinea: Media unions suspend protests amid talks with media regulator

December 11, 2023

Guinea’s main media unions suspended Sunday December 10 a set of actions including media blackout scheduled for this Monday December 11 to give chances for ... Read More

Madagascar: more protests, clashes likely nationwide ahead of 9 Nov. presidential vote

October 11, 2023

Madagascar's outgoing president Andry Rajoelina has launched his re-election campaign ahead of the 9 November vote, as UN Human Rights Office expresses concern about the ... Read More

Ethiopia: Tigray protesters demand Eritrean troops’ withdrawal, return of displaced

May 25, 2023

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday (23 May) in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops and soldiers and the return of ... Read More

Ethiopia’s Amhara state hit by protests over govt’s plan to disarm regional forces

April 11, 2023

Scores of people have been killed in huge protests that have taken place in Ethiopia's Amhara region for the past few days against the federal ... Read More

Protests for jobs in Algeria’s marginalized south turn violent ahead of Hirak anniversary

February 11, 2021

Algeria’s oil and gas rich south is a tinderbox waiting to explode! The youth in Ouargla and many other cities took to the street, torched ... Read More

Protests against socio-economic hardship grip Algeria

February 3, 2021

Hundreds of Algerians have been staging demonstrations for several consecutive days in different provinces against hard life conditions compounded by the pandemic. The protests commenced ... Read More

Tunisia: Protests, violent clashes break out in several cities , over 600 rounded up

January 18, 2021

Tunisia was gripped Saturday and Sunday by chaotic scenes as anger mounts over economic hardship. More than 600 people were arrested after the of riots ... Read More

Algerian feminists mourn death of charred and raped lady

October 9, 2020

Protesters staged sit-ins in different Algerian towns to mourn the rape and abhorrent murder of a 19 year-old girl in the country where the feminist ... Read More