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Mandalay, Apr 15 (EFE/EPA).- Myanmar security forces opened fire Thursday at a demonstration of medical personnel in Mandalay and detained about 20 people in a new day of protests against the military junta that seized power during the Feb. 1 coup, the local press reported. According to data from the Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners, at least 714 people have died due to the military repression, while more than 3,000 people have been detained, including the leader of the deposed government Aung San Suu Kyi.The Myanmar Army justifies the coup on alleged electoral fraud in November’s elections, in which Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory, as it did in 2015, with the endorsement of international observers. (Camera: STRINGER). SHOT LIST: A FUNERAL OF A MUSLIM MAN KILLED DURING ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN MANDALAY, MYANMAR.
Photos of crowd cheering as soldiers pass by in the Gabonese capital Libreville, hours after military officers announced overturning the government in Gabon, in an apparent coup targeting President Ali Bongo Ondimba who has been in power for 14 years and whose re-election had been just announced. IMAGES
The new self-proclaimed leader of the military junta ruling Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, parades in the streets of Ouagadougou and hails the cheering crowd. IMAGES
People gather and wait outside Insein prison in Yangon with hopes of seeing their loved ones Sunday after Myanmar's junta said it would release over 1,600 prisoners from jails across the country to mark the Buddhist new year. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden calls on Myanmar's military to "relinquish power" in the Southeast Asian nation and release the government officials and activists detained in this week's coup. "There can be no doubt: in a democracy, force should never seek to overrule the will of the people or attempt to erase the outcome of a credible election," Biden says in his first major foreign policy speech as president. SOUNDBITE
Tolata (Bolivia), Apr 20 (EFE).- Singing and dancing to the rhythm of a musical group that goes through the streets on a truck turned into a stage, the Bolivian military sensitizes people to stay home.(CAMERA: Claudio Ábrego)
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