Monthly Archives: November 2020

Burkina Faso: Preliminary election results hand victory to Kabore

África, Burkina Faso, Eleições presidenciais

Via: Aljazeera

President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s leader, according to preliminary results announced by the National Independent Electoral Commission. “Mr Kabore … with 57.87 percent of the vote, is provisionally elected president of [Burkina] Faso in the first round,” Newton Ahmed Barry, head of the commission, said on Thursday (26/11). Kabore vowed to strengthen dialogue in his troubled country after the landslide victory in his bid for a second term. The voting process was marred by threats of attacks by armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) which operate across vast swathes of Burkina Faso amid an escalating security situation in West Africa’s Sahel.

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Deadly protests in Uganda after Bobi Wine arrested again

África, Crise Política, Eleições presidenciais, Uganda

Via: Aljazeera

Ugandan police have said three people died and 38 were wounded in protests that erupted after police arrested presidential candidate Bobi Wine in the east of the country. Police in the capital Kampala fired tear gas and bullets to disperse Bobi Wine’s supporters, who blocked roads and burned tyres after news broke that he had been arrested in the town of Luuka and taken to a police station in the city of Jinja. Since expressing his intention to run in the election against long-ruling, 76-year-old President Yoweri Museveni, 38-year-old Bobi Wine has been arrested multiple times. He has won a large following, especially among young people in the East African country, where general elections are scheduled in January 2021.

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Thousands of Refugees arrive in Sudan from Ethiopia: UNHCR

África, Crise, Etiópia, Nações Unidas, Sudão

Via: CGTN Africa

The UN Refugee Agency has estimated that 4-thousand people are arriving daily in Sudan from Ethiopia. UNHCR warned a full-scale humanitarian crisis is unfolding due to conflict in the Tigray region. As CGTN Africa reports, a mass exodus is underway. Ethiopians in the warring Tigray region are seeking refuge in neighboring Sudan. They are fleeing the ongoing war between the armed forces and the local government. Sudan has been safe haven for refugees fleeing conflict from Chad, Eritrea, Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

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