Police Minister Bheki Cele was booed by thousands of university students and high school pupils who gathered outside Parliament on Wednesday to protest after the murder of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana. The crowd of protesters, which included UCT vice chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng, demanded to know how politicians planned to keep[…]
Sudanese police fired live ammunition at mourners outside the home of a protester who died early on Friday from a gunshot wound sustained the night before. About 2,000 mourners gathered in the Burri neighbourhood where the man, Moawia Bashir Khalil, 60, was shot on Thursday. According to local reports, Khalil was killed inside[…]
Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern town of Kassala, the first demonstrations in the city since anti-government protests spread across the country last month. The protest erupted in the city’s largest market on Wednesday and vendors scrambled to shut their stalls and[…]
Police arrested at least 839 people, mainly in Saint Petersburg and the Urals city of Ekaterinburg, who were taking part in demonstrations called by jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, independent monitor OVD-info said. At least 2,000 people rallied in central Moscow, an AFP correspondent said, as the capital held a[…]
US President Donald Trump has arrived in the UK for a four-day visit amid a flurry of political turmoil and planned protests against him. After landing at London’s Stanstead airport, Trump and his wife First Lady Melania went to the US ambassador’s residence. They travelled there by helicopter as police[…]
By Loushe Jordaan The Mitchell’s Plain magistrates court was packed this morning as eight protesters arrested for public violence appeared in court. They were arrested during a mass demonstration by Mitchell’s Plain residents on Jakes Gerwel and Highlands drive on Wednesday night. The protest was held in response to a[…]
Government said it noted the call for a national strike and marches across the country by the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), but cautioned protesters to conduct themselves in a responsible manner. Saftu, and its more than 20 affiliated unions, are set to stage protest marches all around[…]
Kenyan police have fired tear gas and shot at a group of chanting supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga after the presidential candidate claimed “massive” fraud in this week’s elections. Leonard Katana, a regional police commander, said Wednesday’s shooting took place when protesters clashed with security forces in South Mugirango[…]
Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown as president of Egypt in an uprising in 2011, will be released from detention in a military hospital after a six-year legal battle over accusations of involvement in the killing of protesters. “He will go to his home in Heliopolis,” Mubarak’s lawyer Farid el-Deeb said,[…]
Roads have been blocked and shops have been looted in Atteridgeville ahead of an anti-immigrant protest in Pretoria. President Jacob Zuma has strongly condemned the violent tensions which have recently broken out between South Africans and immigrants in parts of Gauteng. His office announced on Friday that he would champion[…]
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