protests – BDNews

As protests rock Biya’s win in Cameroon, opposition leaders reject official election results

October 31, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Opposition leaders in Cameroon Tuesday contested the official results of the Oct. 12 presidential election after the country’s top court declared the world’s oldest leader Paul Biya winner as protests continued across the country. Citizens began protesting in mid-October after opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary claimed victory as the official results were still being tallied. Since then, security forces […]

Protests spread in Tanzania over controversial elections

October 31, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Protests have escalated in major cities across Tanzania as opposition supporters denounce Wednesday’s presidential and parliamentary elections as a sham, the BBC reported on Thursday. Hundreds of demonstrators also crossed into Kenyan territory, barricading roads, lighting bonfires, and tearing down posters of President Samia Hassan along the way. Kenyan police said two people died after […]

Protests hit Canada as 70,000 international students face deportation

August 28, 2024August 28, 2024Bode DoluLeave a Comment

International students, in their tens of thousands, took to the streets across Canada this week in a wave of protests against new immigration policies introduced by the federal government. According to a report by City News Toronto on Monday, the demonstrations, which drew approximately 70,000 students occurred in major provinces including Prince Edward Island, Ontario, […]

Beyond The Protests…, By Reuben Abati

August 7, 2024Bode DoluLeave a Comment

The #EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria were scheduled to take place between August 1 -10, 2024, tagged “10 Days of Rage”, a seemingly apocalyptic projection of the immediate future of Nigeria constructed in the fashion of The People vs. The State but as it has turned out, it may be correct on August 6, today, to […]

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister resigns, flees to India amid deadly protests

August 5, 2024Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister has resigned and fled to India following weeks of deadly protests in the country. Reports of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 76, resigning were confirmed by the army, as well as Bangladesh High Commission Officials in Delhi. According to the country’s leading national paper, Hasina and her sister took a military helicopter to […]

Protests: Tinubu’s Real Troubles Are Just Beginning, By Farooq A. Kperogi

July 27, 2024July 27, 2024Bode DoluLeave a Comment

In light of his planned astronomical hike in petrol prices euphemistically called “subsidy removal” in 2023, which his opponents also promised to implement and caused Nigerians embrace as inevitable and desirable, I foretold the imminent social convulsion that is gathering momentum across Nigeria now. “I can assure Tinubu that if petrol price hikes deepen people’s […]

Kenyan President sacks almost entire cabinet after deadly protests

July 11, 2024Bode DoluLeave a Comment

President of Kenya, William Ruto announced on Thursday the dismissal of almost his entire cabinet and consultations to form a “broad-based government” following widespread anti-government protests. He said the move affects all ministers including the attorney-general but excluded prime cabinet secretary and foreign minister Musalia Mudavadi and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Ruto said he decided […]

As tension, protests spread in Rivers State, policeman and one other person feared killed

June 18, 2024Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Reports coming in say a policeman and a member of Omuma Security Planning and Advisory Committee (OSPAC), have been feared killed by some assailants in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. There have been widespread protests across the 23 local government areas of the state following the expiration of the three-year tenure of […]

France burns for a fifth night in protests sparked by police killing of a 17-year-old boy, over 700 arrested

July 3, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Authorities in France have made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday following a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, who was allegedly ‘executed’ by police during a traffic stop. The 17-year-old whose death on Tuesday, June 27, spawned the anger was laid to rest Saturday in a Muslim […]

Pomp, protests as UK holds first coronation in 70 years

May 5, 2023Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Britain’s first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of history. The coronation, the first of a British king since 1937, is the religious confirmation of his accession after the death of his mother, Queen […]