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Continued.......Now, the people of Burkina Faso have the government they wanted, one that draws inspiration from the leadership model Sankara had advanced. In 2022, following a successful coup d’état, President Ibrahim Traoré delinked Burkina Faso from the neo-colonial system.

Twenty-four people who lost their lives while fighting Compaoré's police and military forces during the insurrection are today honoured at the Monument to the Martyrs in Ouagadougou.

SOURCES:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/15/burkina-faso-capital-erupts-protest

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/39796/politique/burkina-24-morts-et-625-bless-s-dans-l-insurrection-populaire-contre-blaise-compaor/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/burkina-faso-ex-president-blaise-compaore-guilty-thomas-sankara

https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article133674

the Guardian

Burkina Faso capital erupts in protest

Military guards shoot weapons into air, loot shops and steal cars in Ouagadougou in protest over unpaid allowances

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SUDAN'S BLOODY OCTOBER

Eighteen months into the ongoing conflict between UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces, an end remains elusive. Civilian casualties surged in October 2024 as fierce battles tore through Khartoum, north and west Darfur, and the vital al Jazirah state, Sudan's breadbasket. The conflict has hit civilians hardest, leaving them in desperate need of aid and safety.

Heavy fighting occurred across Khartoum and North Darfur in the first week of October. North Darfur's El-Fasher witnessed relentless RSF shelling and army airstrikes, resulting in dozens of civilian casualties. The deadliest assault occurred in Al-Koma's market, where an army airstrike k*lled 59 civilians and injured over 200. Elsewhere in Al Hasaheisa, al Jazirah state, airstrikes caused close to 100 civilian casualties, including children. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported severe shortages in essential supplies, with malnutrition and lack of healthcare hitting mothers and children hardest.

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Continued.....The humanitarian crisis has only worsened. In West Kordofan's Um Dafas village, an 8 October RSF attack killed 13 civilians, while separate incidents in North Kordofan and Jezira State saw dozens of fatalities and thousands displaced. By October's third week, RSF forces seized a medical supply truck in White Nile State, exacerbating health shortages. The violence escalated dramatically in al Jazirah state after RSF commander Abuagla Keikal defected, with RSF reprisal attacks k*lling 24 civilians on 23 October. Reports of abductions, murders, and s*xual violence have revealed the impact of this protracted war on Sudan's civilian population.

This information was pulled together by verifying initial reports by @BSonblast (X).

Sources:
Daily updates by @https://x.com/BSonblast

Displaced
https://reports.unocha.org/en/country/sudan

Sudan's health sector facing collapse
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00858-9/fulltext

Al Koma

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Mass civilian deaths reported after Sudan’s army ups airstrikes

The war between the army and paramilitary forces has already created the world’s largest displacement crisis and caused famine.

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Botswana's political landscape has been reshaped as the ruling party, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), suffered a historic defeat after nearly 60 years in power. In a media conference held on the morning of 30 October, the incumbent president and BDP leader, Mokgweetsi Masisi, conceded defeat even before the final results were announced. As of 7 am local time, the BDP had only won one out of all the 36 parliamentary seats whose results had been announced. The main opposition party, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), led by lawyer and longtime opposition leader Duma Boko, had amassed 25 seats and was on track to hit the 31 seats threshold needed to form a government.

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Continued.......This has reduced government revenue, forcing it to cut social spending and struggle to create employment for its growing population.
Masisi's fallout with his former mentor and predecessor, Ian Khama, in 2019 led to the ruling party split that saw several BDP heavyweights move to Khama's new party, the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF). This has taken away a significant number of votes from the BDP. Disagreement over the sharing of diamond revenue led to a protracted feud between the Masisi administration and the London-headquartered diamond miner and trader, DeBeers which has presided over Botswana's diamond industry since its inception in the late 60s through Debswana-a 50-50 joint venture between the two sides.

Masisi's list of foes went beyond Botswana's borders; earlier this year, he threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in protest against that country's opposition to his decision to lift a ban on elephant trophy hunting.

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Continued......In 2019, Masisi lifted the ban that the Khama administration had put in place five years earlier. The decision set him on a collision course with conservation groups and Western governments, claiming the move would result in more poaching; Masisi countered that the country's elephant population had exploded to unsustainable numbers, increasing human-wildlife conflicts. His embrace of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party, a longtime nemesis of Western countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, also earned Masisi more enemies in the West.

At this stage, it is hard to tell which of these factors was the straw that broke the camel's back.

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WHITE WOMAN PEPPER SPRAYS MUSLIM UBER DRIVER FOR PRAYING

In this viral video, we see Uber passenger Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, lunging forward and attacking driver Shohel Mahmud, 45, using pepper spray. The driver said he had been praying in Arabic whilst stopped at a red light in New York.

In the footage, Mahmud was seen unbuckling his seat belt and jumping out of the car to escape the attack, but immediately returned as the vehicle moved. The father of three then put the car in park while the second passenger pulled Guilbeault back. When the second passenger asked the attacker why she attacked the driver, Guilbeault allegedly responded, 'He's brown.'

Mahmud experienced burning, redness and pain, calling 911 a few minutes following the attack.

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Continued......The Manhattan District Attorney's Office indicted Guilbeault in the New York State Supreme Court on one count each of second-degree assault as a hate crime, third-degree assault as a hate crime, and second-degree aggravated harassment. The 23-year-old former employee at D. Pagan Communications, a public-relations firm, is expected to return to court in January, having been 'released with non-monetary conditions.'

Mahmud said he has been working fewer hours out of fear for his safety.

The Council on American Islamic Relations, the largest civil-rights advocacy group for Muslims in the US, has documented 4,951 bias complaints in the US between January and June this year, a 69-per cent increase over the same period in 2023. Earlier this year, the organisation received the 'highest number of complaints it has ever received in its 30-year history' with 8,061 complaints documented in 2023. Nearly half of those complaints were reported in the year's final three months, following the 7 October escalation in the 76-year Israeli occupation of Palestine.

SOURCES:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/30/hate-crime-pepper-spray-uber-driver/75929090007

https://nypost.com/2024/10/31/us-news/passenger-who-pepper-sprayed-uber-driver-for-no-reason-indicted-for-hate-crime-da

USA TODAY

Woman charged with hate crimes in July pepper spraying of Muslim Uber driver

Prosecutors accused Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, of pepper spraying an Uber driver in an anti-Muslim attack in New York City.

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MAYWEATHER VISITS JERUSALEM WALL IN SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL

Professional boxer Floyd Mayweather is currently on his tour of Israel. In a recent clip, he is seen visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City to pray as part of his solidarity trip with Israel amidst its brutal war in Gaza and Lebanon. Mayweather also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and in a caption, he wrote, "It was an honor to meet with you today. Your strength and courage are unmatched, and your commitment to protecting Israel's Jewish people and citizens is truly inspiring."

However, this meeting comes at a time when many are witnessing the devastating images of Israel's military actions in Gaza, which have reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 43,000 Palestinians, with ongoing violence leading to approximately 335,000 casualties over the past year under Netanyahu's leadership.

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