Demonstrators in Abidjan, the economic capital and heartland of the Ivory Coast, protested against the acquisition of a third term by sitting President Alassane Ouattara. Clashes occurred between police and protesters, with many fires set as well.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Thessaloniki to protest a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would create a university police force for the first time since the fall of Greece’s military junta. Near the end of the demonstrations, clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, with Molotov cocktails and tear gas being thrown.
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets on the anniversary of the formation of the Carabineros, the national police organization of Chile. Demonstrators called for the agency’s immediate dissolution, burning barricades and clashing with Carabineros who arrived to suppress the protest.
Protesters and antifascists commemorated Annibal Villaroel at his funeral, a young man murdered by police forces in Chile on the 18th of October. Hundreds of anarchists and other socialists attended his funeral in Santiago, chanting insults against the police.
Hundreds of protesters in Recife took to the streets against right-wing president Bolsonaro, demanding more access to vaccines and the end of ethnic cleansing against indigenous people in the Amazon. Police attacked the peaceful demonstrations, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd.
