A junta spokesperson announced Thursday that ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been relocated from house arrest to solitary confinement. The 77-year-old Nobel laureate departed the grounds to attend hearings for her several trials before a junta court YANGON: A junta spokesperson announced Thursday that ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has … Read more
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the February 2021 coup. US State Department counsellor casts doubt over junta’s pledge to hold elections in 2023. U.N. special envoy for Myanmar fears illegitimate poll could cause further unrest. The Myanmar junta’s scheduled elections next year that will be without Bunco. However a top US government official, quoted … Read more
The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) calls for dialogue. The junta had on May 13 announced a three-year ban on all demonstrations. Guinea’s official ban on protests was challenged on Friday. Guinea :Guinea’s official ban on protests was challenged on Friday by a key political group, which called for a protest … Read more
An autopsy revealed that Thierno Mamadou Diallo was killed by a bullet. The ruling junta has promised to break with past practices. Diallo’s death, one of the first civilians to die during a protest since the coup. Guinean public prosecutor ordered a list of all police officers present when a young man was killed during … Read more
No civilian should hold a weapon of war,” General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno. The discovery of gold in the Tibesti 10 years ago sparked a rush of miners. Fighting broke out between gold miners and security forces. After 100 people were killed in armed skirmishes in the region, Chad’s ruling junta initiated a “all-out disarming … Read more
Former MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and democracy activist Ko Jimmy sentenced to death. Myanmar has not carried out an execution for decades. The junta has sentenced dozens of anti-coup activists to death. A spokesman for Myanmar’s junta told AFP on Friday that the country’s military will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s … Read more
A bomb exploded in a busy district of central Yangon on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring nine others on Tuesday, according to a Myanmar police source. “The blast happened around 3:20 p.m. local time (0850 GMT) near a bus stop,” a police source said on condition of anonymity. “One man died in the hospital, and … Read more
A leading opposition figure in Chad was arrested on Tuesday following violent anti-French protests that prompted threats from the country’s ruling junta, according to authorities and his party. The Wakit Tamma opposition coalition’s coordinator, Max Loalngar, “was arrested during the May 14 march, which turned violent,” the police reported on Facebook. “Two vehicles… came to … Read more
A Myanmar military court on Wednesday dismissed Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal against a five-year sentence for corruption handed down last week, according to a junta spokesman. Since a coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in military custody and faces a raft of charges that … Read more
YANGON: Myanmar’s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, his lawyer said on Wednesday. The military has squeezed the press since taking power in a February coup, arresting dozens of journalists critical of its crackdown on dissent that has killed over … Read more
BANGKOK: Myanmar’s junta has re-arrested more than 100 anti-coup protesters freed in a recent amnesty, according to a local monitoring group that tracks detentions and killings in the country. The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since the February coup, with more than 1,100 killed in a crackdown on dissent and over 8,000 arrested, … Read more
