A Nicaraguan government employee was killed and three other people injured over the weekend, officials said Sunday, the latest casualties of deadly political unrest that has wracked the Central American nation for more than a month. The fatality brings to 84 the number of people killed since protests began on April 28, while more than 860 have been wounded, according to humanitarian groups, police, and relatives of victims. READ ALSO: OAU sex scandal exposes Buhari-Saraki impotenceInitially triggered by now-aborted reforms to the near-bankrupt social security system, the unrest broadened into a rejection by many Nicaraguans of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo. Demonstrators have voiced frustrations over corruption, the autocratic style of Ortega and Murillo, limited options to change the country’s politics in elections, and the president’s control over Congress, the courts, the military and the electoral authority. Church-mediated talks aimed at quelling the violence have stalled since last week, but the Nicaraguan Bishops’ Conference called on Sunday for both sides to attend a session on Monday aimed at reviving the dialogue.

Source: Punch May 28, 2018 06:56 UTC