Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

UPDATE: Protest In Kabala Getting out of hands.







Umaru Fofana Report:

Journalists and residents of Kabala in northern ‪#‎SierraLeone‬ say police have shot dead at least two antigovernment protesters - a high school student and a mobile phone topup seller. Soldiers have also been deployed. The local police commander Supt Alimamy Bangura would not confirm or deny the deaths but said his house had been set on fire and two of his men injured. The youths are protesting against an announcement that a project to establish a centre to train their skills had been moved to another district, claiming the president had promised in 2014 that it would be built in their district.


A 24-hour curfew has been imposed in Kabala where hospital sources have confirmed the shooting dead by police of two protesters. Two people are admitted there while two others are in a critical condition and have been referred to the capital. The ruling party headquarters in the town and the homes of the local police chief and the District Officer have been torched.

BREAKING NEWS: Youth in Koinadugu District Came Under Fire By Police. Umaru Fofana Report




This Demonstration Started because the youth felt betrayed by their president who had earlier on in December 2014 allegedly  promise the Villagers a Vocational Institution that will train and prepared them for entrepreneurship.
A Construction work that should have started in January last year is now been transfer to another district. this has cause the uproar of the youth
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below is the report from Umaru Fofana 

 Young Anti-government demonstrators in the northern Koinadugu district say they've come under police fire. The district youth leader, Mohamed Marah says "police have just started firing teargas and live rounds at us". They are protesting against the government's decision to establish a skills-training Youth Village in another district which they say had been promised them in 2014. Police in the region are not responding to my calls. 



 The District Youth Chairman in Koinadugu, northern ‪#‎SierraLeone‬ says young men and women will embark on street protests today for the second time in a week. Mohamed Marah told me the move was "to demonstrate our frustration over the humiliating treatment by President [Ernest] Koroma and his APC party meted out to us over the promised construction of a Youth Village in the district which has now been moved to Tonkolili". He said the president had in December 2014 promised them the Village, a vocational institute to train the skills of young people and prepare them for entrepreneurship, with construction work to start in January 2015. "Now they've taken it to another district humiliating us as if we are less Sierra Leonean". The government is yet to comment, but sources say big hitters have been sent to the district. 
Photos are of a previous protest.




Monday, 4 January 2016

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Sudan cut ties with Iran, stepping up dispute over executions

Saudi Arabia on Sunday cut ties with Iran, responding to the storming of its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric.

On Monday, Bahrain and Sudan also cut diplomatic relations with Iran, and the UAE said it will reduce the number of Iranian diplomats it permits to be in its country.

Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh that the envoy of Shi'ite Iran had been asked to quit Saudi Arabia within 48 hours. The kingdom, he said, would not allow the Islamic republic to undermine its security.

Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran early on Sunday and Shi'ite Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, predicted "divine vengeance" for the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken opponent of the ruling Al Saudi family.