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In France, it was the death of a man during a police intervention, that again shook the street with outraged protestors. Liu Shaoyo a fifty-year-old Chinese was shot down Sunday March 25 by the brigade Anti-criminality, of Paris. The cops intervened at his home for a "family dispute". This umpteenth police blunder intervenes weeks after the Theo case, the young French of Congolese origin who had been raped by the police with the help of a truncheon.
The general strike continues in French Guyana Supported by the local political class, very disparate groups born in a few days now combine their forces under the banner of the "Collectif pou la Gwiyann dékolé". (Collective for advancing Guyana) The collective is composed of citizens against insecurity and for health, and representatives of nearly twenty professions. A few days ago, the Guyanese had organized the largest demonstrations that had ever taken place in the French island of the Americas
The Juno Awards 2017 were held the 1st and 2nd of April in Toronto, Juno awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies.
Winners are chosen by either members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or a panel of experts depending on the award. 9 out of 42 categories are based solely on sales figures, such as Album of the Year or Artist of the Year. Nominees are determined by CARAS members for Single of the Year, Artist and Group of the Year. Nominees are determined by a judge vote for the remaining categories who are experts in the relevant genre. The judges are experts in each specific genre of music. The names of the judges remains confidential. These judges represent all facets of the Canadian music industry, are spread across the country, and a mixture of males and females in both official languages (English and French). No person can judge the same category two years in a row.
In Cameroon, the news is once again shocking, pictures of a young Cameroonian tortured by the police went around social networks. Ibrahim Bello would have received electric shocks, that exploded both of his legs and a hand. The horror of pictures triggered a social movement both on the internet and in Cameroon, where the results of the investigation by the authorities are still awaited. In the meantime, Ibrahim Bello saw himself amputated both feet and part of the hand, in a hospital of Yaoundé the capital city of Cameroon.