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A fire breaks out in a field in Migné-Auxances, Vienne, after police forces use tear gas, while thousands of opponents of the 'basins' demonstrate despite the ban. IMAGES
Trial resumes for Benoit Feuillu and four other alleged organisers of two banned demonstrations in western rural France. The activists argue they fight to preserve water and are opposing large artificials reservoirs or "bassines" which they see as a way to monopolise water resources for the farming industry. in October 2022 and specially, in March 2023, the protests turned into violent clashes with police with many protesters injured. SOUNDBITE
Ethiopia's Water Minister Seleshi Bekele says his country will continue to fill a mega-dam on the Nile River that has caused a dispute with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin ever since Ethiopia broke ground on it in 2011. SOUNDBITE
Police fire water cannons to disperse protesters on the emblematic Plaza Italia square, epicentre of the social unrest movement, as voting continues in Chile for a referendum on whether to change a dictatorship-era constitution seen as underpinning the nation's glaring inequalities. IMAGES
Police in Chile hit protesters with water cannons as people gather once again in Santiago's Plaza Italia to denounce the failing economic policies of the government. IMAGES
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