Tag Archives: Protests

Los Angeles, United States | AFP |  Protesters marched on Wednesday in a California town following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man said to be mentally ill, as local officials urged calm and pledged a full investigation. Alfred Okwera Olango, 38, was shot on Tuesday in the …

  Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Protesters gathered on Wednesday in a California town following the police shooting of an unarmed black man who was reportedly mentally ill. The man, identified by a relative as Ugandan native Alfred Olango, 30, was shot on Tuesday in the San Diego …

VIDEO: Calm has returned to Arua as 22 suspects in Thursday’s anti-bishop Sabino Odoki demonstration, are charged and remanded. But as Moses Walugembe reports the violence that engulfed Ediofe Cathedral and now threatening the Catholic Church in Arua diocese was just an explosion of a long time internal conflict in the church.   Share …

Charlotte, United States | AFP |  The family of the African-American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, released a dramatic video of the police shooting on Friday, raising pressure on the authorities to make their own footage public. The police have refused to release …

  Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | The UN rights chief on Thursday said DR Congo had used “excessive force” during deadly clashes with demonstrators in the capital and called on Kinshasa to reach out to the opposition to avert a “large-scale crisis” “The authorities need to pull back from …

Charlotte, United States | AFP | The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina appealed for calm Wednesday after a night of violent protests and looting sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black man said to have been armed with a handgun. Police said 16 officers and several demonstrators were …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s high court on Wednesday overturned a two-week ban on protests in the capital Harare after a challenge from activists involved in a surge of demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe has vowed to crack down on the protests, which have erupted over recent months …

Beni, DR Congo | AFP |  Three people, including a policeman, were killed Wednesday in clashes in a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after a massacre sparked angry accusations of security failures by the government, local officials said. Several hundred people rallied on the main street of …

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | AFP | Thousands of Brazilians angry at political upheaval, corruption and the cost of the Rio Olympics blocked traffic in protests hours before the gala opening ceremony. Most people came to vent anger at center-right interim president Michel Temer who took power in May on …

  Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenyan police fired tear gas and beat opposition demonstrators with truncheons Monday to stop them storming the offices of the electoral commission to demand its dissolution. Hundreds of protesters were prevented from reaching the offices of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Some …