Demonstrators took the palace of the Oba of Lagos on the 21st, and walking out with the Oba’s staff demonstrating his ceremonial defeat. The Oba is a ceremonial leader of Lagos by Yoruba tradition, and has become very unpopular from recent protests. On the 22nd, protesters also discovered a locked warehouse meant for citizens but enclosed by the government housing COVID supplies, and looted it.
Youth in Beirut burned barricades and cut off the ring bridge to demand an improvement in living conditions, following the collapse of Lebanon’s economy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and warehouse explosion that decimated the country’s capital in August.
Around 1000 Greek protesters in Heraklion gathered for a demonstration against police repression and brutality following the beating of a student in a Nea Smyrni, Athens park, and in solidarity with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which was invaded by law enforcement with 33 people arrested.
Protests continue to grow in Nigeria, whose SARS police force has yet to be disbanded and is being replaced with SWAT, and recent leaks by Anonymous are only serving to aggravate the situation in the country. The hacktivist group had previously not been present, but it is likely that its new releases will bring forth a new wave of protests.
Dozens of protesters in Rethymno marched against police repression in universities, enabled by the passing of a law through Parliament by the Ministry of Education which enabled police to re-enter university campuses for the first time since 1975.
