Greek anarchists from the Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki gathered at a city hospital, demanding a raise for medical workers and healthcare for undocumented refugees. No arrests were made, as demonstrators dispersed immediately after due to the country’s authoritarian law that banned protesting under COVID.
Around 10,000 protesters in the Greek-controlled part of Nicosia took to the streets against corruption and nationalism preventing negotiations for unification of Cyprus, an island long divided between the ethnic Greek and Turkish ethnicities. Demonstrators demanded the resignation of the current nationalist president and the development of a plan to bring the north and south of the island together as one.
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Senegal after the arrest of a prominent opposition leader for allegedly politically motivated accusations of rape. The death count from police murders increased to at least 10, with hundreds of injuries from live ammunition occurring as well.
Hundreds of protesters at the Gaston Berger University in the capital of Senegal, Dakar, clashed with police over insecurity and incompetence on campus after a stabbing and robbery of a student occurred without any police intervention.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens on International Women’s Day, singing chants and holding banners against patriarchy, the state, and capitalism, demanding more empowerment for women in Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean, and worldwide.
