By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Africanews
Around 120,000 people demonstrated in Madrid in heavy rain during a general strike against the cost of living and housing crisis. The mobilisation comes weeks before snap legislative elections, according to Africanews.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Wednesday 11 November in Madrid and Barcelona for housing and purchasing power, following a general strike affecting several sectors. The nationwide mobilisation comes less than three weeks before early parliamentary elections and marks, according to Business News, the first mobilisation of this scale in Spain for fourteen years.
🇪🇸 Spain · Source: Business News ·
Twenty people were arrested after violence in Barcelona following the main demonstration of the general strike, including 18 during the night-time riots. Shops were vandalised and barricades set alight, according to Catalan authorities cited by Africanews.
🇪🇸 Spain · Source: Africanews ·
Tens of thousands of Polish nationalists took part on Wednesday in the annual Independence march in Warsaw. The gathering, held every 11 November to commemorate independence in 1918, comes days after deadly shootings in Krakow, according to France 24 Afrique.
🇵🇱 Poland · Source: France 24 ·
Israel’s new parliament sees Gadi Eisenkot and his allies launch legislative initiatives targeting Benjamin Netanyahu’s political legacy. The offensive comes during the first session of the new legislative term on Tuesday, according to France 24 Afrique.
🇮🇱 Israel · Source: France 24 ·
Nvidia board reportedly prepares to decide Jensen Huang’s futureNvidia’s board is reportedly preparing a meeting to decide whether to retain Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive, after revelations about two extramarital relationships, one with a company executive. The meeting could take place as early as Wednesday, as Nvidia shares fell 8% after the market closed, according to MyJoyOnline citing the Wall Street Journal.
Judge urges Lagos to establish victim protection agencyJudge Rahman Oshodi has called on the Lagos State government to establish the agency tasked with assisting and protecting victims and witnesses, provided for by a law passed in 2024. He made the call in a ruling acquitting a 54-year-old man accused of raping his daughter, according to Punch.The week in Africa
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