Thousands of protesters in Bogota took to the streets in opposition to healthcare privatization and police violence amid a general strike ongoing in Colombia. Despite the vast majority of demonstrations being peaceful, police brutally cracked down across the capital city, using chemical weapons and at times live rounds.
Dozens of Afro-Colombians gathered at the Ministry of the Interior in Bogota to demand an end to the cartel occupation of the predominantly black community of Buenaventura, a vital port city on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Niamey, the capital of Niger, after a close election led to both candidates claiming victory in the first democratic election since independence in the poorest country in the world due to French interference with coups. Demonstrators in support of opposition candidate Mahame Ousmane gathered in front of a police station but were dispersed by police who fired tear gas.
Nigerians recorded the military and northern Muslim Fulani herdsmen moving around with assault rifles in Oyigbo, Port Harcourt, and opening fire into […]
Dozens of protesters participated in a motorcade in Thessaloniki demanding justice for 23-year-old Jason, a motorcyclist killed in a car accident after colliding with a vehicle owned by a New Democracy MP, the sister of Prime Minister Mitsotakis, the leading government figure of Greece.
