violence

OSCE trains Montenegrin police and judicial professionals on response to gender-based violence

On 29 and 30 September, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) conducted a specialized training course on gender-based violence (GBV)…

3 months ago

Police violence reports emerge after Tanzania election row

Since Tanzania's disputed polls two weeks ago, the full scale of the post-election violence remains unknown. Witnesses describe bodies lying…

3 months ago

Police arrest 142 following looting and public violence in Mangaung

Free State police have arrested 142 people following incidents of looting, public violence and damage to property in several areas…

3 months ago

Anti-Immigration Protests Incite Targeted Violence in South Africa — Bloomsbury Intelligence and Security Institute (BISI)

ImplicationsThe current trend of anti-immigration sentiments spiked amid the downturn of South Africa’s economy, with the unemployment rate standing at…

3 months ago

Video. Belgium: Thousands protest alleged police violence in Brussels

Protesters marched through the city carrying banners reading "My teachers, my heroes" and "Violence is not democracy", while some areas…

3 months ago

Xenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline

1994 to 1995In December 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed…

3 months ago

Mauritania: police violence against journalists, promises of protection yet to materialise

Photojournalist Mohamed Abdallahi Moustapha, from the private news agency Al Akhbar, told RSF that police confiscated his camera and microphone before assaulting…

3 months ago

Gachagua dismisses Ruto’s anti-goon order as ‘theatrics,’ claims police-goon alliance is fueling violence – Capital FM Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 21 – Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has dismissed President William Ruto’s directive to security agencies to…

3 months ago

From crime preventers to goons: Kenya, Uganda suffer hired violence

Kenya and Uganda may be different polities, but the two countries appear joined at the hip when it comes to…

3 months ago

An unfinished reckoning with police violence: Community data shows ongoing systemic racism

It’s been roughly six years since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a global conversation about anti-Black police…

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