In Guinea, former military leader Moussa Dadis Camara plans to appeal his sentence for crimes against humanity. The Central African Republic and Kenya report a new Mpox outbreak. And in Nigeria, the youth is at the streets protesting against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. teleSUR
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00:00In Guinea, lawyers for former military leader Mosaddadi's Camara said on Thursday he will
00:05appeal this conviction on Wednesday for crime against humanity.
00:09He was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges stemming from 2009 massacre of more
00:15than 150 people during a pro-democracy rally in the capital Conakry.
00:20Demonstrators at the stadium were protesting against Camara's plans to return to run for
00:25president when soldiers opened fire on them.
00:28He had taken power in a coup the previous year.
00:32Camara fled the country after surviving an assassination attempt not longer after the
00:36massacre but returned from exile in September 2022 to face justice, insisting that he was
00:42innocent.
00:43More than a hundred survivors and relatives of the victims testified in the trial that
00:47started in November 2022.
00:53Kenya and the Central African Republic have declared new outbreaks of Mpox as African
00:57health officials scramble to steam the spread of the disease in region-lacking vaccines.
01:03Nairobi announced a new outbreak on Wednesday after a case was detected in a passenger travelling
01:08from Uganda to Rwanda at a border post in southern Kenya.
01:12The Central African Republic was the first to declare a new outbreak on Monday, saying
01:17it was spreading to its capital, Bangui.
01:19Mpox is a viral infection which can spread between people and occasionally from the environment
01:24to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by an infected person.
01:30In settings where the virus is presented among some wild animals, it can be also transmitted
01:36from infected animals to people who have contact with them.
01:43In Nigeria, thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets on Thursday as they
01:48protested against the country's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
01:53Nigerian forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in several places.
01:57In Abuja, where a court granted an order late Wednesday to restrict the protest to a stadium,
02:03Nigerian police officers were seen firing tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters
02:08that gathered a few kilometres from their presidential villa.
02:12Nigeria's public officials, frequently accused of corruption, are among the best paid in
02:16Africa, a stark contrast in a country that despite being one of the continent's top
02:22oil producers, also has some of the world's poorest and hungriest people.