"la quĂȘte dâindĂ©pendance replace lâOccident au centre, puisque cette quĂȘte nâaurait pas de sens sâil ne sây trouve pas. (...) pour ĂȘtre pris dans une guerre de libĂ©ration â câest lâidĂ©e fixe des partisans de lâAES â il faut se considĂ©rer comme Ă©tant colonisĂ©."
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âIt's unprecedented, this many death sentences. The authorities are unleashing a crackdown. The goal is to spread terror.â
âThe end of coups dâĂ©tat cannot simply be decreed. It (...) means tackling at the root the underlying causes of constitutional breakdowns: opaque governance, political exclusion, corruption, persistent inequalities, and the instrumentalisation of institutions.â
âBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised the Russian opposition figureâs âimmense courageâ in standing up to the Kremlinâs âtyrannyâ.â
In Cameroon, 148 detainees involved in the post-election crisis were due to appear yesterday before the YaoundĂ© military court. They are being prosecuted for âspreading false news, unlawful assembly, group rebellion, and failure to produce an identity card.â
The case is again adjourned for a month.
Itâs worth more than all the âmotivational speechesâ in the world; some struggles are inspiring and must not be forgotten.
"Through his images, photographer Robin Tutenges tells the story of the resistance lives of young men and women fighting the Burmese military in an effort to win back democracy, something they have barely known.
The Burmese revolution is very much alive."
"Five years after the coup dâĂ©tat, the junta, having regained ground and staged a sham election, has partially pushed back the resistance forces, thanks to support from China and Russia, and to the use of drones and air strikes."
« Images and videos verified by major international media outlets including the BBC and CNN appear to show fleeing protesters shot from behind, bodies piled in morgues and satellite evidence indicating the digging of mass graves. »
âIn pretrial detention for more than two months, they are being tried for âspreading false news, unlawful assembly, group rebellion, and failure to produce an identity cardâ for having taken part in protest demonstrations against the announced results of the October 12 presidential election.â
âThe vote took place in a climate âmarked by widespread repression and intimidation,â according to the UN. Goodluck Jonathan, head of observer mission from the AU, reported âintimidation, arrests, and abductions of opposition leaders, candidates, supporters, media outlets, and civil society actorsââ
âA leaden blanket has fallen again over the Iranian people. In blood. Their uprising, sparked on 28 December 2025 by the dramatic collapse of the national currency, was crushed in an unprecedented outburst of violence.â
"Opposition MP Kivumbi told the AFP agency that soldiers and police fired tear gas and then live bullets at hundreds of people who were following early results at his home.
"Ten were killed inside my house" he said.
Human rights activist Agather Atuhaire confirmed this account to Reuters."
"âWe were civilians. We were not armed. It was 3:00 a.m. I donât know what we had done wrong. It was so loud (the sound of the gunfire, editorâs note). I couldnât believe what was happening to me, and what was happening to my country,â she said."
"While many of those present fled into the surrounding plantations, âthey fired through the door of our garage and killed ten young people, ten young men, campaign workers who had come to help us,â said the law professor, who said she was âshaken.â"
More than 400 prominent women worldwide â including Nobel laureates, former presidents and prime ministers, parliamentarians, UN special rapporteurs, media personalities, sporting icons and leading human rights defenders â have signed an urgent public statement calling for her immediate release.
Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old Iranian mother and engineer, is at imminent risk of execution for holding up a banner bearing the words âWoman, Resistance, Freedom.â
With two weeksâ hindsight now⊠itâs pretty crazy, isnât it, when you think about it? And in a way, itâs hopeful.
When ECOWAS has the will to act to safeguard democracy in one of its member states, it actually can.
"The dominant model, that of administrative multipartyism, cannot answer the two central questions: representation, meaning the idea that every voice counts; and redistribution, meaning that everyone should have access to the basic means of subsistence.â
"Disgruntled Gen-Z protesters, who have toppled governments and rattled rulers across the world this year, have claimed their first European victory."
"The verdict is a âparodyâ of justice, declared the Committee to Protect Journalists. Apple Daily was a fiercely opposition newspaper, critical of the Hong Kong government and the ruling Chinese Communist Party. It was forced to shut down after a police raid on its newsroom."
âThe security forces did not have to intervene. No one went out to demonstrate. The repression carried out by the authorities over the past six months against anyone involved in the protests, which left 7 people dead (...), seems to have put an end to the mobilisation of the Togolese.â
âHit by an unprecedented wave of arrests, the young protesters who had mobilized at the end of September gathered on December 10, in Rabat and several other cities to demand the release of the 2,480 people being prosecuted.â
"Dr. SuccĂšs Masra, one of the opposition leaders, is in prison, unjustly arrested, jailed and put on trial for charges that have no real basis; we cannot talk about freedom and democracy."
âThe force used was proportionate to the situation. We are being accused of having used excessive force (âŠ) Were we supposed to sit idly by in the face of this crowd of protesters ready to overthrow the government?â
...
"Tanzania had descended into violence after elections that the opposition and foreign observers consider to have been fraudulent. According to the opposition and human rights defenders, more than 1,000 anti-government protesters were killed over several days by the security forces."