Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and industrial zone. The plan envisages the eviction of thousands of villagers around...
The man who lost an eye in a Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) demonstration to demand a new voters’ register has revealed that he wept uncontrollably after the Electoral Commissioner declared...
Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba has backtracked on her story denying attacking a noisy church in the Northern region. Hajia Hawawu Gariba has admitted to the...
Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba has denied allegations she fired gun shots in her neighbourhood to discourage noise-making in a church. The incident which...
Wife of Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba has denied allegations she fired gun shots in her neighbourhood to discourage noise-making in a church. The incident...
The police administration has conceded that it erred in its handling of the clash between the supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the residence...
Dozens of protesters demanding a military coup have forced their way into Brazil’s lower chamber of Congress in the capital, Brasilia. At least 40 demonstrators scuffled with guards and took over...
Athens, Greece (CNN)Six people have been arrested in the Greek capital after a group of anarchists started throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails following an anti-capitalism protest, Athens police...
In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent activists in Syria, which has been under martial law since 1963, started protesting...
Barack Obama has warned of a “rise in a crude sort of nationalism” following the Brexit and US presidential votes. Speaking in Greece on his final foreign trip, he said: “We have to guard...
At least eight Nigerian Shia Muslims and one police officer have been killed in clashes with police at a religious procession in Kano city, police say. Many marchers and five police officers were...
US President-elect Donald Trump has said it was a "great honour" to meet President Barack Obama for transition talks at the White House. Mr Obama said he was "encouraged" by their "excellent" and...
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of several US cities to protest against the election of Donald Trump. Many shouted the slogan “Not my president”. Others burned orange-haired...
A police van has rammed protesters in the Philippines capital Manila as a demonstration outside the US embassy turned violent. Footage showed protesters surrounding the van and hitting it with batons...
Fifty-two people were killed and many more injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region during a protest at a religious festival, the government says. Some died in a stampede after police employed tear gas,...
Peaceful protesters crowded Charlotte's first city council meeting since the cop shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, with over 50 people speaking out against police violence. But none of them stood out...
The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service Supt Cephas Arthur, has warned to deal ruthlessly with politicians who will want to cause violence during the December polls. He therefore...
As a human rights ideologue with an inborn predilection for the promotion and protection of the inherent dignity and the inalienable rights of all members of the human family, I, for one, buried my...
South African police fired tear gas in clashes with students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday and arsonists torched a building at another campus overnight as protests over tuition costs...
A North Carolina police chief says video of a fatal officer shooting does not provide "definitive" evidence the black man who died was pointing a gun. But Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr...
