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January 15, 2021 at 11:31 am It is ten years since the people of Tunisia took to the streets and started what became known as the Jasmine Revolution which led to the ouster of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. The revolution triggered a range of similar uprisings across the Arab world, with some regimes changing as a result, as well as further oppression, mass displacement and external interference. The Tunisians may have ended the dictatorship under which they had lived for decades, but they are still struggling to reap the benefits of their achievement. A stable, secure an...

As it is with the Banned NDC MP-elect for Assin North Constituency, so Shall it be with …. Listen to article On Wednesday, 6 January 2021, a Cape Coast court granted an interlocutory injunction against Mr James Gyakye Quayson from being sworn in as a Member of Parliament for Assin North constituency. Mr James Gyakye Quayson, the NDC MP-elect for Assin North was sued by one Michael Ankomah-Nimfah for allegedly holding dual Ghanaian and Canadian citizenship. In view of the petitioner, it is in contravention of Article 94 (2) (a) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana for anyone holding dual citi...

Never did I imagine that opposing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan to Kenya would be viewed by the Kenyan authorities as a criminal act. But that is exactly what transpired last week when activist Mutemi Kiama was arrested and charged with “abuse of digital gadgets”, “hurting the presidency”, “creating public disorder” and other vaguely-worded offences. Mutemi’s arrest was prompted by his Twitter post of an image of President Uhuru Kenyatta with the following caption: “This is to notify the world . . . that the person whose photograph and names appear above is not aut...

Author In October 2019, the people of Ecuador rose up against the International Monetary Fund and the austerity demands attached to a $4.2 billion loan to the government of Lenín Moreno. Marching through the streets of Quito, demonstrators called to end the brutal cuts imposed as conditions of IMF support. “What the government has done is reward the big banks, the capitalists, and punish poor Ecuadorians,” a trade unionist told Al Jazeera. “Out with the IMF!” said another. The IMF, however, has stayed. Following a year of deadly unrest, the IMF and the Ecuadorian aut...