Critics of President Joseph Kabila’s government are challenging the election of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the 47-member Geneva-based council. The country – beset by renewed political and militia violence since Kabila refused to step down in December – won 151 votes. US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said Congo’s election harmed the credibility of the body.
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BNP Paribas subject of full-scale Rwanda probe in France
PARIS, FRANCE, (REUTERS) – French judicial investigators have opened a full-scale inquiry into allegations of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an official at the public prosecutor’s office said on Monday (September 25). Continue reading
Rwanda’s tech entrepreneurs use technology to tackle reproductive health challenges amongst youth
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) develops an innovation accelerator programme that is supporting young entrepreneurs in addressing reproductive health challenges in Rwanda. ‘Tantine’- an app developed by twins Sylvie and Sylvain Uhirwa – both medical students at the University of Rwanda. The app opens up a channel of communication on sexual and reproductive health issues to Burundian refugees living in Mahama Refugee Camp in the south of the country.
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Glamour and politics on the menu for 74th Venice Film Festival
VENICE, ITALY (AUGUST 28, 2013) (REUTERS) – The 74th edition of the world’s oldest film festival will offer a “very exciting” mix of glamour and politics, the event’s artistic director Alberto Barbera said on Tuesday (August 29). Continue reading
70 years later, a survivor tells tales of India-Pakistan split
AMRITSAR, PUNJAB, INDIA (REUTERS)- The partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 led to one of the largest known mass migrations in the human history with millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims displaced from their homelands. Continue reading
Robotic water snake tracks pollution
SWITZERLAND (Next Media)-
Researchers in Switzerland have developed a 4-foot-long pollution-tracking robotic water snake. Continue reading
UK’s May meets with African leaders on sideline of Somalia conference
LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MAY 11, 2017) (UK POOL) – British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday (May 11) met with African leaders on the sideline of an international conference on Somalia in London.
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Macron clearly leading in French presidential elections – Belgian media
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (MAY 7, 2017) (REUTERS) – More than 60 percent of voters have cast their votes for Emmanuel Macron in the French elections according to polls carried out on Sunday (May 7) say Belgian media.
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Migrants traded in “slave markets” in Libya, U.N. agency says
The United Nations says a growing number of migrants passing through Libya are being traded in “slave markets”.
Norway unseats Denmark as world’s happiest country – report
Norway displaces its neighbour Denmark as the world’s happiest country in a new report that assesses life expectancy, freedom, social support and corruption, among other measures.
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