Tag: crackdown
Migration Crackdown: Libya sends dozens of Nigerians back home
Libya remains a major route for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who are escaping poverty, violence, and political instability in search…
Crackdown: Nigerian Navy arrests 19 impostors
The Nigerian Navy (NN) on Sunday said its operatives had arrested a total of 19 impostors in the First Quarter…
MASSOB members go into hiding
Cyriacus Izuekwe Following the crackdown on the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, by the Nigeria…
China Publicly Humiliates Imams
In another crackdown on religious freedoms, China has forced the imams of eastern Muslim majority district of Xinjiang to dance…
Police arrest more than 1,000 in World Cup betting crackdown
Thai police said Wednesday they have arrested more than 1,000 people, including four foreigners, in a crackdown on illegal betting…
Police stop another ASUU rally, teargas lecturers
The Nigerian police on Wednesday disrupted a peaceful rally by members of Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), University of…
Hundreds die as police shoot ousted Morsi’s supporters
CAIRO (AFP) – Security forces stormed the Cairo protest camps of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi’s supporters in a long-anticipated…
Egypt kills 30 pro-Morsi protesters
Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday clearing a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the…
Boko Haram: US renews plea to Nigeria on rights abuses
US Secretary of State John Kerry Saturday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, renewed a plea to Nigerian authorities to ensure the…
China cracks down on religious group
China has arrested more than 800 people in a crackdown on a Christian sect which spread doomsday rumours and challenged…
South African police crackdown on striking miners
MARIKANA, South Africa (AFP) – South African police on Saturday fired rubber bullets at protesters and seized weapons from worker…
Opposition decries press crackdown in Gambia
Gambia’s press union and an opposition party on Thursday condemned the shutting down of a community radio station for providing…
Ethiopia jails blogger, 19 others
Twenty Ethiopians, including a prominent blogger and opposition figures were jailed for between eight years to life on Friday on…