Palestinian refugees have launched a third day of consecutive protests in camps across Lebanon against a government crackdown on non-Lebanese workers. Last month Lebanon’s ministry of labour began clamping down on businesses employing foreign workers without a permit. After a grace period expired last week it started inspections and closed[…]
Thousands of Sudanese people have protested in Khartoum and other cities to mark the 40th day since the deadly dispersal of a sit-in outside the army headquarters that killed more than 100 people. Dubbed the “Justice First” marches, Saturday’s demonstrations were called by the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which has[…]
Violent protests in Plettenberg Bay have claimed their first victims, when, in the early hours of Friday morning, a bus loaded with passengers overturned after it was forced to divert from the N2 highway. The Bitou municipality has been embattled by vicious disruptions, now entering its fourth day. The protests,[…]
Sudan‘s ruling generals and a coalition of protest and opposition groups have reached an agreement to share power during a transition period until elections, in a deal that could break weeks of political deadlock since the overthrowing of autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in April. Both sides agreed to establish a joint[…]
Hundreds of protesters stormed Hong Kong’s parliament late Monday as the territory marked its China handover anniversary, ransacking the building and daubing its walls with graffiti as police warned they were poised to use “appropriate force” to clear the area. The financial hub has been plunged into unprecedented political chaos[…]
Police and protesters clashed in three cities in Malawi on Thursday during countrywide demonstrations over the disputed result of last month’s presidential election. In the biggest rallies since the vote count was announced, police used teargas to disperse protesters who tore down billboards of re-elected President Peter Mutharika. Thousands of[…]
Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir has appeared in public for the first time since his overthrow by the military following months of mass protests against his 30-year-long autocratic rule. Dressed in a white robe and turban, the toppled leader was seen on Sunday as he was escorted under heavy guard[…]
Protest leaders in Sudan have agreed to suspend a civil disobedience campaign launched after a bloody crackdown on demonstrators and resume negotiations with the country’s ruling generals on the formation of a transitional sovereign council, an Ethiopian envoy has said. Speaking to reporters in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, Mahmoud Drir said the Transitional Military Council[…]
At least four people were killed as Sudanese security forces moved to quell a civil disobedience campaign launched on Sunday that left streets in the capital Khartoum largely deserted. Public transport was barely functioning and most commercial banks, private companies and markets were shut, though some state banks and public[…]
Sudanese protest leaders have “totally” rejected the military’s offer for an unconditional resumption of talks as opposition-linked doctors said the death toll since a violent dispersal of a protest camp in the capital jumped to more than 100. The number of those killed rose on Wednesday after the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said[…]
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