Headlines: Nigeria tired of police violence

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#EndSARS protesters against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria.

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 For two weeks, the country has been shaken by demonstrations of young people protesting against police brutality

, notes

Le Point Afrique

.

President Buhari's method seems to have run out of steam.

No matter how much the government proposes to do away with the controversial police unit SARS, to find a way out of the crisis, it is unlikely to be enough.

Protesters remain mobilized in Lagos, Abuja, Ughelli, Ogbomosho and in the 21 states of the country.

An unprecedented fact,

Le Point Afrique

notes

, many people now dare to demand the resignation of the Head of State.

Many observers wonder how far this protest movement can go, mainly carried by the youth of the south of the country and by women.

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All the more so as recriminations and demands are increasing, as

L'Observateur Paalga

observes

in Burkina Faso: “ 

from the rage against the brutal and rogue cops, the demonstrators have now come to rail against the price of fuel in country yet the first African producer of black gold and against that of the 50 kg sack of rice which is negotiated at 35 naira or a little more than 50,000 FCA, all against a background of demand for peace.

But today,

continues the Ouagalan daily,

it is no longer the heads of the chickens, at the origin of the sling, that the crunchies demand but the outright resignation of the Head of State, considered responsible for the abuses in the country.

It must be said,

underlines again

L'Observateur Paalga, that the tenant of Aso Rock does not seem to have taken the full measure of the situation, he who had to address his compatriots from the start but preferred to wall himself in silence deafening.

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Guinea on the tightrope

Also on the front page, post-electoral tensions in Guinea… The opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election on Monday and since then the tone has been mounting on the side of power… “

 Cellou Dalein Diallo's declaration has scalded the presidential camp which is groggy,

notes the Guinean site

Aminata

, in

particular the government which reserves the right to lodge a complaint but this declaration also caught the CENI by surprise which threatens to sanction the opponent

.

"

For more than 24 hours, the residence of Cellou Dalein Diallo has been surrounded by the police.

His supporters took to the streets in Conakry on Monday evening after his declaration announcing that he had won the presidential election in the first round.

And violence has occurred.

In particular, a 14-year-old boy was shot dead, apparently by the police.

The

Ledjely

news

site

collected the father's testimony: “ 

My children took advantage of my sleep to go out and observe the joy of the supporters of Cellou Dalein Diallo.

So I was at home when children came to tell me that my son had been shot and that people had sent him to the clinic (where he died).

(…) God will judge those who were at the root of his assassination.

 "

“ 

A feeling of powerlessness

,” comments

Ledjely, “felt by many Guinean families whose relatives were murdered by the defense and security forces without the culprits and sponsors being identified.

According to the UFDG, the main opposition party, two other cases of assassination were recorded Monday in Hamdallaye and in La Carrière.

Which brings the death toll to three.

Numerous cases of injuries, some of them by bullets, are also reported.

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What can the international community do?

So beware, warns

Le Pays

au Burkina, " 

the three deaths announced by the UFDG following the clashes that accompanied the claim of the victory of its president, are the harbingers of the murderous eruption that promises the Guinean volcano.

The worst can however be avoided

, believes the Ouagalan daily,

if the international community gives itself the means to put pressure on the power in place so that the results of the elections are in conformity with the truth of the ballot boxes.

But one can doubt the sincerity of certain actors of this international community who look like fishermen in troubled waters.

And among the latter, we must first count ECOWAS,

exclaims

Le Pays.

We can, in fact, put on the index the troubled game of community organization in this Guinean crisis.

Because, it is she who, in fact, had given his discharge to the electoral process,

recalls the newspaper, in

spite of the cries of orchard of the opposition and the reservations of the OIF, the international organization of the Francophonie.

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