Tag: teargas
Kenyan police fire teargas, arrest marchers protesting at brutality
Kenyan police on Tuesday fired teargas and arrested activists gathering for a march against perceived government injustice that has been given extra impetus this...
Teargas used on Malawi protesters
Armed police used teargas to disperse demonstrators demanding the resignation of Malawi’s president after an election they say was rigged, escalating the state’s response...
Sudanese vendor chokes to death on teargas
A Sudanese fruit seller died after choking on teargas fired at protesters in the market in Khartoum, family members told Reuters.
Hundreds of protesters were...
Teargas used to disperse protesters in Tunisia
Police in Tunisia fired teargas to disperse demonstrators who protested after a young man died in a police station near the coastal resort of...
Teargas used in Sudan women’s protest
Sudanese security forces used teargas to break up a crowd of hundreds, mostly young women, demonstrating against the detention of women arrested at previous...
Sudan protesters teargassed
Sudanese security forces used tear gas to disperse lawyers pushing for the release of activists detained during recent anti-government protests, witnesses said.
The demonstration outside...
Teargas used to disperse illegal Sudanese protests
Sudanese police used tear gas to disperse "illegal" protests against the 30-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir in Omdurman where three people were killed,...
Teargas used on Sudanese protesters
Sudanese security forces fired tear gas at people trying to march to President Omar al-Bashir's Nile-side palace to protest soaring prices and demand he...
Teargas used to break up Uganda meeting
Police in Uganda used teargas and live rounds to disperse opposition supporters, an opposition aide said.
The clash occurred in Rukungiri, home...
Teargas used to break up Mali protest
Riot police used teargas to break up opposition supporters who planned to march through Mali's capital to call for transparency in next...
Teargas used to disperse Kenyan crowd outside TV station
Kenya police fired teargas to disperse a crowd of more than 100 demonstrators demanding government reopen three private television channels it shut...
Teargas fired at Odinga “swearing-in” in Nairobi
Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse thousands of opposition supporters gathering in central Nairobi to celebrate the planned swearing-in of opposition leader...
Teargas fired at DR Congo churchgoers
Congolese police fired teargas to disperse churchgoers gathered in Kinshasa to mourn seven people killed in protests against President Joseph Kabila two...
Teargas used on stone-throwing Sudan protesters
Police in the capital of Sudan fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing students protesting a doubling of bread prices.
Police vehicles sealed off...
Teargas used against Kenyans protesting slum murder
Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse a crowd protesting against the overnight murder of four people in a slum in Nairobi.
Parts of...
Nairobi protesters dispersed with teargas
Kenyan police used tear gas to disperse opposition protesters in Nairobi and another city as demonstrations against a presidential vote re-run continued...
Teargas used to disperse protesters in three Kenyan cities
Kenyan police used teargas on Friday to disperse protesters in the country's three main cities, Reuters witnesses said, as a stand-off between...
Kenya police teargas marchers
Kenyan police used teargas and fired shots in the air as hundreds of demonstrators marched through Nairobi protesting proposed legal changes that...
Teargas used to stop Kenya protests
Police fired teargas at opposition activists in Kenya's capital as protests calling for the sacking of election board officials involved in August's...
Teargas used to quell Kenya protest
Police fired teargas at opposition supporters who rallied in Nairobi calling for the sacking of election board officials they blame for August's...
Teargas used on Togo protesters
Togo security forces fired tear gas at anti-government protesters on a late night sit-in at an intersection in central Lome as part...
Tear gas and water used on Zimbabwe protesters
Zimbabwean police sprayed tear gas and fired water cannon at opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters protesting what they see as...
Teargas fired at Tunisian protestors
Tunisian security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to take over a gas pumping station, as weeks of...
Teargas used to disperse protesting Ivory Coast students
Ivory Coast police fired teargas to disperse pupils and students protesting at government ministries in the main city, Abidjan, as nationwide strikes...
Teargas fired at Tunisian protestors demanding jobs
Tunisian police firing tear gas on Thursday clashed with hundreds of youths who tossed rocks and petrol bombs in protests over jobs...
Zimbabwe police fire teargas at street vendors
Zimbabwe police fired teargas at stone-throwing vendors resisting removal from city streets on Tuesday in the latest flare-up of protests against President...
Teargas used to disperse Zimbabwean protestors
Zimbabwean police on Friday fired teargas to disperse anti-government supporters gathering in a square in the capital Harare ahead of a planned...
Water cannon used to break up Zimbabwe war vets protest
Zimbabwean police on Thursday fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of war veterans planning a march on the ruling party's...
Greek police fire teargas at protesters in Athens
Greek riot police fired teargas at anti-austerity protesters pelting them with bottles outside parliament in the first such unrest after a summer...
