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Jul
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Hundreds defy Paris protest ban a week after riots

Hundreds defy Paris protest ban a week after riots

WORLD
HUNDREDS of protesters defied a ban to march in central Paris against police violence, a week after riots sparked by the killing of a teenager in a Parisian suburb. Police dispersed the crowd from Paris's huge Place de la Republique, sending several hundred people towards the wide Boulevard Magenta, where they were seen marching peacefully. Two people were arrested, Paris police said after the demonstration. The Paris police department said in a decision published on its website that it had banned the planned demonstration, citing a "context of tensions". "We still enjoy freedom of expression in France, but freedom of assembly,…
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Jul
01
2023
By LAYLI FOROUDI and CHARLOTTE VAN CAMPENHOUT
Murder of an African sparks riots in France

Murder of an African sparks riots in France

NEWS
FRANCE'S interior minister said the coming hours would be decisive as he sent 45,000 police onto the streets following three nights of riots since an officer shot dead a teenager at a traffic stop in a working-class suburb of Paris. The violence, in which buildings and vehicles have been torched and stores looted, has plunged President Emmanuel Macron into the gravest crisis of his leadership since the Yellow Vest protests that started in 2018. Unrest has flared nationwide, including in cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille as well as Paris where Nahel M., a 17-year-old of Algerian and…
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Jun
06
2023
By EDWARD MCALLISTER and DIADIE BA
Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots

Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots

NEWS
ELHAJI Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal's capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live rounds at protesters. In another, he shared first aid tips for people wounded on the streets. Offline he helped too, showing elderly neighbours how to ease their discomfort from inhaling mouthfuls of tear gas, said his younger brother Djimbala Ba. "He spent his time in the service of others," said Ba, 24, who…
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Jun
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Senegalese riots victim warned of gun violence

Senegalese riots victim warned of gun violence

NEWS
EDWARD MCALLISTER and DIADIE BA ELHAJI Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal's capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live rounds at protesters. In another, he shared first aid tips for people wounded on the streets. Offline he helped too, showing elderly neighbours how to ease their discomfort from inhaling mouthfuls of tear gas, said his younger brother Djimbala Ba. "He spent his time in the service of…
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