CONAKRY: Stampedes at a football match killed 56 people in Guinea’s second-largest city of N’Zerekore, the junta-controlled government said Monday.
“Protests of dissatisfaction with refereeing decisions led to stone-throwing by supporters, resulting in fatal stampedes” at Sunday’s match, the government statement said, which was published as a news ticker on national television.
“Hospital services have put the provisional death toll at 56,” it added.
Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah condemned the “incidents that marred the match between the teams of Labe and N’Zerekore,” in a post on Facebook.
“The government is following the situation and reiterates its call for calm so as not to impede hospital services from aiding the injured,” he added.
Local media said the match in the southeastern city was part of a tournament organized in honor of Guinea’s junta leader, Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power in a 2021 coup and has installed himself as president.
Such tournaments have become common in the West African nation as Doumbouya eyes a potential run in presidential elections expected next year and political alliances form.
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‘Stampedes’ kill 56 at Guinea football match: government
- Local media said the match in the southeastern city was part of a tournament organized in honor of Guinea’s junta leader
Bangladesh will hold the first national elections since 2024 mass uprising in February
- The country’s last elections were held in January 2024, when Hasina returned to office for the fourth consecutive time
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s next national elections would be held on Feb. 12, eighteen months after former Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina was ousted through a mass uprising following weeks of violence that left hundreds dead and thousands injured, the chief election commissioner said Thursday.
A.M.M. Nasir Uddin confirmed the date in a televised address to the nation.
The country’s last elections were held in January 2024, when Hasina returned to office for the fourth consecutive time. The 2024 elections were controversial and boycotted by major rivals of Hasina who accused her administration of rigging the vote.
Hasina fled the country to India on Aug. 5 in the wake of huge protests last summer, and she has been in exile since.
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been running the country since Aug. 8, 2024. The Yunus-led administration has banned all activities of Hasina’s Awami League party, which means the former ruling party would not be able to join the race.
The new elections would be the 13th since the country gained independence from Pakistan through a bloody war in 1971.
A.M.M. Nasir Uddin confirmed the date in a televised address to the nation.
The country’s last elections were held in January 2024, when Hasina returned to office for the fourth consecutive time. The 2024 elections were controversial and boycotted by major rivals of Hasina who accused her administration of rigging the vote.
Hasina fled the country to India on Aug. 5 in the wake of huge protests last summer, and she has been in exile since.
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been running the country since Aug. 8, 2024. The Yunus-led administration has banned all activities of Hasina’s Awami League party, which means the former ruling party would not be able to join the race.
The new elections would be the 13th since the country gained independence from Pakistan through a bloody war in 1971.
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