
eSwatini teachers’ union leader comes under fire
The police refuse to bite the bullet in their questionable persecution of the man fighting a wider battle for living wages for public servants. Instead, they aimed gunfire at his house.
The police refuse to bite the bullet in their questionable persecution of the man fighting a wider battle for living wages for public servants. Instead, they aimed gunfire at his house.
Calls for French troops to leave the country have been growing since 2020 and Mali’s transitional government has adopted an increasingly defiant posture with regards to France.
At least 15 barricades have been erected along the Sudan-Egypt highway to disrupt trade with the northern neighbour, known to be supporting the coup generals.
A leaked report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 EndSARS demonstrators in Lagos State indicted the army and police in the killing and its cover-up.
On Monday morning Sudanese trade unions and people’s movements called for strikes and mass protests in response to a military coup. Prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has been arrested, along with key civilian leaders.
Soldiers assaulted students of William Pitcher College in Manzini city who were protesting not being refunded fees paid for hostel facilities that were not used during lockdown.
Edgar Lungu’s authoritarian regime is being contested from the Left as well as the centre.
Defying the ban on demonstrations amid a wave of protests against King Mswati’s rule, residents have held demonstrations – and security forces have responded with violence.
The government has gazetted an effective wage increase of 14% rather than the strike’s 20% demand, without consulting unions or the board that represents the country’s clothing industry workers.