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Malians took to the streets massively on Friday, after the military junta called for protests against stringent sanctions imposed by the West Africa bloc ECOWAS over delayed elections. FRANCE 24's Senior Reporter Cyril Payen tells us more.
Key opposition figure Pavel Latushko says the current persecution of the opposition in Belarus is the worst terror Europe has seen in 40 years. And he called on the EU to apply tougher sanctions.
Mali celebrates sixty years as an independent nation on the day following the announcement of the new president and vice-president of the post-coup transition.
Weeks of protests and global outrage over George Floyd’s death are starting to lead to changes in US policing.
"The 'Gilets Jaunes' (yellow vests) have been protesting what they see as exclusion from economic rights and participation in public affairs," rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in her annual address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. "We encourage the government to continue dialogue - including follow-up to the national discussions which are currently underway - and urge full investigation of all reported cases of excessive use of force".
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.