What is keeping Nigeria’s youth on the streets?
SARS has been accused of extrajudicial killings.
Nigeria’s youth have been protesting against police brutality for two weeks now and have drawn support from all over the world.
In South Africa, men accused of murdering a 21 year-old white South African on his farm a couple of weeks ago are expected to appear today in the magistrates court.
Tension is rising in Conakry, Guinea with the assassination of senior army officer Colonel Mamady Condé ahead of Sunday’s presidential election.
(Photo: EndSARS protesters occupy Lagos State House of Assembly. Credit: Getty Images)
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