Senegal is set to hold its presidential election on March 24 after the country’s top judicial body, the Constitutional Council, rejected the government’s bid to delay the polls.

Outgoing president Macky Sall formally announced on the evening of March 6 that the Council of Ministers had been informed of the date. The decision was also ratified by the Constitutional Council on March 7.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/07/senegal-to-hold-presidential-election-after-constitutional-council-voids-delay/

#BREAKING | In a stunning verdict, Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras backed by the US, has been convicted of drug trafficking charges in New York City.

This guilty ruling exposes the rot of US imperialism, enabling narco-regimes like Hernández's while hypocritically waging a militarized "war on drugs" to impose hegemony over Latin America.

Hernández stands accused of turning Honduras into a narco-state. He came to power in #Honduras in 2013 in the aftermath of the 2009 US-backed coup against democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya.

On March 9, Saturday, peace and working-class groups in Italy organized a major mobilization in Rome demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Over 31,000 people have been killed in the over 150 days of Israel’s war on Gaza. Along with the bombardment of Gaza, Israeli forces continue to disrupt and block the delivery of aid to various parts of the enclave, and have also attacked aid trucks as well as Palestinian civilians seeking aid.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/11/massive-demonstration-in-rome-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/

The death toll in Gaza from the Israeli war crossed the 31,000-mark, as the genocidal Israeli onslaught completed 157 days.

With the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Israeli aerial bombardment and ground attacks are set to intensify.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/11/ramadan-begins-in-palestine-amid-food-shortages-and-bombing/

🇭🇹 Amid escalating violence with armed groups, Henry resigns as PM after sustained protests demanding his ouster. The gov't shakeup follows months of turmoil.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/12/haitis-acting-pm-and-president-ariel-henry-resigns-peoples-movements-warn-against-foreign-intervention/

The troops of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are on a rampage in the eastern state of Gezira, looting and depopulating village after village in Sudan’s breadbasket, even as over half of the war-torn country’s population suffers hunger.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/12/farmers-killed-across-sudans-agricultural-heartland-while-hunger-engulfs-the-war-torn-county/

“The Palestinian protests shut down the Oscars tonight!” shouted actor and activist Mark Ruffalo on the red carpet, on the way to the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony on the night of March 10. “Humanity wins!” he said, raising his fist.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/11/activists-push-palestine-to-the-front-line-of-the-oscars/

Google has fired an engineer who disrupted an Israeli Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance conference in New York City on March 4. “I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide!” the worker proclaimed, midway through a presentation by Google Israel managing director Barak Regev.
#NoTechForApartheid
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/12/google-fires-engineer-for-standing-up-for-palestine/

The Israeli Occupation forces have killed over 400 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7 and detained over 7,500 of them in violent and destructive raids.

The Islamic Waqf Department claimed that nearly 35,000 Palestinians gathered at Al-Aqsa mosque on the first night of Ramadan on Monday, March 11, despite the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation forces amidst the war in Gaza.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/13/despite-assurances-israel-restricts-entry-of-palestinian-youth-into-al-aqsa-during-ramadan/

🇵🇸 Continuing with its unprovoked killing spree in the occupied territories, Israeli occupation forces killed at least six Palestinians, including three children, and injured several others at various places in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked refugee camps and towns in occupied territories, killing over 400 Palestinian including over 100 children in these last five months.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/13/occupation-forces-kill-six-including-three-children-in-west-bank-and-jerusalem/

Famine looms in Gaza due to Israel’s refusal to let aid trucks into the besieged territory. This is in violation of the Geneva Conventions which say that “starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited.”
An article by Vijay Prashad.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/13/starvation-is-a-war-crime-note-from-the-israeli-genocide-against-the-palestinians/

Kenya has suspended a police deployment to Haiti to be part of a US- and UN-backed mission, shortly after the de facto prime minister and president of the Caribbean country, Ariel Henry, announced his decision to resign on March 11.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/13/kenya-halts-police-deployment-to-haiti-after-resignation-of-de-facto-prime-minister/

Following several rounds of Presidential primaries, the two aging politicians have clinched the presidential nominations for their parties.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/13/biden-and-trump-confirmed-to-face-off-in-us-elections-in-november/