By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Africanews
Groups of masked protesters clashed with police in Barcelona after a march linked to Spain’s general strike, with barricades set alight and shop windows smashed. Twenty people were arrested in total during the day, according to Africa News.
Twenty people were arrested after violence in Barcelona following the main general strike demonstration, including 18 during the night-time riots. Shops were vandalised and barricades set alight, according to Catalan authorities cited by Africanews.
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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 ·
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.
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An Egyptian court has postponed the retrial of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, until 18 November. She is being prosecuted for operating an unlicensed news site and publishing false news. Her defence is seeking the judge’s removal, as he had already sentenced her in absentia to one year in prison in 2024 and ordered the media outlet’s closure, according to Africa News.
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Israel demands explanations after Dagan turned awayIsrael will seek explanations from France after Yossi Dagan, a representative of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, was turned away. Israel’s foreign ministry called the measure “unacceptable” and said it would consider what action to take, on Wednesday, according to Le Monde.
Nigerian police target automated account farms ahead of 2027Nigerian police have launched operations to track down phone farms and automated account farms that artificially inflate online engagement and manipulate opinion ahead of the 2027 general elections. The announcement was made by a representative of Inspector General Tunji Disu during a PUNCH Media Foundation webinar on AI and disinformation, where electoral stakeholders called for stricter measures.The week in Africa
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