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Muhammadu Buhari • Nigeria • End SARS

EndSars: Me ya kamata Shugaba Buhari ya yi don kawo ƙarshen zanga-zangar? 20 Oktoba 2020 Asalin hoton,  Getty Images Tun bayan da zanga-zangar kawo ƙarshen rundunar ƴan sanda ta Sars ta ƙi ci ta ƙi cinyewa a Najeriya, wasu ƴan ƙasar ke ta nuna fargaba kan abin da ka je ya zo. Wasu da dama na ganin lokaci ya yi da ya kamata Shugaba Buhari ya dauki mataki kan lamarin, duk da cewa a makon farko na zanga-zangar shugaban ya yi magana tare da ɗaukar matakin rusa rundunar ta Sars, wadda ita ce buƙatar masu zanga-zangar. Sai dai bayan rushe rundunar gwamnati ta kafa sabuwa mai suna SWAT don maye gurbinta, hakan ya sa masu zanga-zangar ci gaba da kira a rushe ta ita ma, sai dai har yanzu Shugaba Buhari bai ƙara cewa uffan ba. A biranen Legas da Abuja inda zanga-zangar ke ci gaba da bazuwa, lamarin da ke saka mazauna biranen cikin tasku na takurawa zirga-zirga da walwalarsu,  inda a ranar Litinin da yamma zanga-zangar ta rikiɗe zuwa rikici a wasu unguwannin. Bayanan bidiyo, Tasirin zanga-zangar

Nigeria • End SARS • Protests • Muhammadu Buhari

Nigerian Forces Fire on Demonstrators Protesting Police Brutality The toll was unclear, but witnesses said several people were shot during escalating protests in Lagos. The governor said ‘miscreants’ had hijacked mostly peaceful demonstrations. Police fire teargas at a crowd of anti-police brutality protestors near Abuja on Tuesday.  Credit... Kola Sulaimon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian security forces opened fire Tuesday night at a demonstration in Lagos against police brutality, hitting several people according to witnesses, in a major escalation of the unrest that has gripped the country for two weeks. The extent of the casualties was unclear, but some witnesses reported seeing people who were killed. Videos posted to social media  crackled with apparent gunfire  and  showed people who were wounded  and uniformed forces shooting into the air. A police officer who witnessed the episode and spoke on condition of anonymity said that 11 people had been ki

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Eyewitnesses say Nigerian forces opened fire on protesters in Lagos Demonstrators barricade the road to protest against abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) at the Lekki toll Plaza in Lagos, on October 12, 2020. Lagos (CNN) Clashes between protesters and law enforcement agents in Lagos turned bloody on Tuesday, despite  a state-wide curfew , with eyewitnesses telling CNN that multiple demonstrators have been shot by soldiers. Demonstrators have taken part in daily protests across the country for nearly two weeks over widespread claims of kidnapping, harassment, and extortion by a police unit know as  the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) . Tuesday saw the state governor impose a 24-hour curfew and deploy anti-riot police to the city. One witness at the protests, Akinbosola Ogunsanya, said the shooting began after the lights were turned off at the Nigerian city's Lekki tollgate. "Members of the Nigerian army pulled up on us and they started firing," he said. &qu

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