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The Democratic Republic of Congo has summoned Rwanda’s ambassador and suspended Rwandair flights to Congo in response to what it says is Kigali’s support for M23 rebels carrying out a military offensive in eastern Congo.
Kinshasa this week said Kigali was backing …
Lawmakers in the Central African Republic on Friday voted to abolish the death sentence, the speaker of the national assembly announced, in a country torn by civil war. The last execution dates back to 1981. “The National Assembly has voted by acclamation for the legislation abolishing the death sentence,” speaker Simplice Mathieu Sarandji told applauding deputies. President Faustin-Archange Touadera …
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the legal age of sexual consent should be increased from 16 to 18 years old. The judgment is welcomed news by many in a country where advocates say early pregnancies are forcing hundreds of girls to leave school.
In a judgement …
Senegal’s President Macky Sall called for three days of mourning after a fire engulfed the neo-natal unit of a hospital in Senegal, killing 11 newborn babies. According to the president, only three infants could be saved. “To their mothers and families, I express my deepest sympathy,” Sall had tweeted upon hearing the …
Recent clashes between the army and presumed fighters of the March 23 Movement (M23) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have displaced 37 000 …
