Cameroon
At least 20 protesters have been arrested in Cameroon as provisional election results pointed to 92-year-old President Paul Biya securing another seven-year term. They will be charged with insurrection and incitement to rebellion, according to Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji. Opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma claimed victory this week and released his own tally that he said showed he’d won 60 percent of the vote. Biya, the world’s oldest leader, has presided over a period marked by economic stagnation, corruption and a battle with a secessionist movement in the country’s Anglophone regions.
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Gaza
Despite Israeli pledges made as part of its ceasefire deal with Hamas, the amount of aid getting into Gaza is falling far below required levels, the U.N. World Food Programme said. “We haven’t had large-scale convoys into Gaza City or to the north of Gaza,” WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa told journalists, adding that the agency had not been given permission by Israel to use the Salah al-Din Road, the main north-south route. Gaza’s Government Media Office said in a post on Telegram that only 986 aid trucks had entered the Strip since the ceasefire began last week, out of the 6,600 trucks it says were supposed to have arrived by Monday.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has put to death a man who was a minor at the time of his alleged crimes in the second such execution in two months. Abdullah al-Derazi was 17 when he participated in peaceful protests in 2011 and 2012 against the government’s treatment of the Shia minority. Prosecutors accused him of “targeting security personnel” and “throwing Molotov cocktails.” It is illegal under international law to impose the death penalty on people who were minors at the time of their offenses, including under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, of which Saudi Arabia is a signatory. A man named Jalal Labbad was executed in August for crimes committed when he was 16 and 17.
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The rulers of Saudi, their wicked and sell-out scholars are the worst Muslims in Saudi, not the shias, even though I strongly disagree with shiaism, Saudi prisons are full of sunni scholars, imprisoned for simple preaching Islam as it was revealed.