Sudan: Government forces fatally shoot protester as coup anniversary looms

24 October 2022 • International, News • No Comments

Latest death brings the number of demonstrators killed since last year’s October military coup to 118. Security forces shot dead a protester in Sudan‘s capital on Sunday, medics said, two days ahead of the first anniversary of a military coup that derailed the country’s transition to civilian rule. The latest death – the[…]

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2021, the year military coups returned to the stage in Africa

28 December 2021 • International, News • No Comments

International Surrounded by soldiers and with Guinea’s flag draped around his shoulders, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya appeared on state television hours after leading a coup in September. “Guinea is beautiful,” he told his co-patriots, using a crude analogy to describe what would be his vision for the future of his country. “We no[…]

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Morsi’s death symbolic of democracy in Egypt

18 June 2019 • News, VOC News • 2 Comments

The first democratically elected, former president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi’s death should be regarded as state-orchestrated murder, according to Khalid Hilal from the international movement of Students Against the Coup. Hilal says that Morsi’s death has been the culmination of years of neglect and symbolises the death of an era[…]

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Emmerson Mnangagwa vows to open Zimbabwe to investors

21 December 2017 • International, News • No Comments

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to introduce new policies to re-engage with the world community and attract foreign investment after decades of isolation under Robert Mugabe. In his first state of the nation address on Wednesday, Mnangagwa said his priorities were to revive the southern African nation’s ailing[…]

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President Erdogan and opposition unite in Turkey rally

8 August 2016 • International, News • No Comments

More than a million people have attended a pro-democracy rally held in Istanbul in response to Turkey’s failed coup attempt last month. The massive rally on Sunday united the country’s president, the prime minister and two opposition party leaders around a single issue for the first time in years. “The[…]

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‘Erdogan cheated death as coup pilot ran out of fuel’

5 August 2016 • International, News • No Comments

The rebel pilot of an F-16 that had the Turkish president’s plane in its sights failed to strike only because the fighter jet ran out of fuel and had to change route, thus saving Erdogan’s life during the coup attempt, the pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper claims. The F-16 tracked Erdogan’s[…]

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Two high-ranking generals resign in Turkey

28 July 2016 • International, News • No Comments

Two high-ranking Turkish officers have resigned just hours before the country’s Supreme Military Council began a meeting to discuss a review of the armed forces. The generals handed in their resignations in protest against the government’s ongoing dismissals in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt of July 15, sources[…]

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Turkey: Families of detained soldiers camp out for answers

27 July 2016 • International, News • No Comments

Hundreds of concerned families have descended on Istanbul’s Silivri prison complex where they have set up camp in a bid to find out even the slightest bit of information about what has happened to their sons, brothers and husbands. The families of the conscript soldiers first began arriving last Monday[…]

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Turkey in shake-up of security forces after failed coup

23 July 2016 • International, News • No Comments

Turkish authorities have announced a shake-up of the security forces a week after a section of the army attempted to overthrow the government in a failed coup. In the most significant institutional changes since the coup attempt, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said on Friday that the gendarmerie would in future[…]

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Greek court sentences fugitive Turkish soldiers

22 July 2016 • International, News • No Comments

A Greek court has handed down a two-month suspended prison sentence to eight Turkish military personnel who fled to Greece aboard a helicopter in the hours after last week’s attempted coup in their country. All eight – three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors – received on Thursday the[…]

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