KAMPALA - Ugandan police said Monday that in an operation around Kampala's city center, they arrested 120 people suspected to have been using narcotics. However, members of the LGBT community say it was a health meeting that police interrupted.Patrick ...
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November 11, 2019 Web Desk
Legal and Judicial Affairs, Legal-Judicial
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GENEVA - The U.N. office of the high commissioner for human rights welcomes the conviction and sentencing of a man for rape by a court in Mauritania. Mauritania does not have a law to prevent gender-based violence and rape. In the past, almost all cas...
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November 11, 2019 Web Desk
Politics
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UNITED NATIONS - In a highly unusual move, the tiny West African nation of The Gambia on Monday filed a lawsuit against Myanmar, accusing it of perpetrating a genocide on ethnic Rohingya Muslims which forced hundreds of thousands to flee the Asian nati...
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November 11, 2019 Web Desk
General
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HARARE, Zimbabwe's central bank begins circulating new banknotes on Monday, which it says will help to ease a severe cash shortage as the country suffers a deepening economic crisis.The bank has played down fears that the move will fuel inflation, insi...
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November 11, 2019 Web Desk
Business
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HARARE - Zimbabwe's central bank says it has begun circulating lower-denomination bank notes and coins, in an effort to help end severe shortages of cash and boost the new Zimbabwean currency. But many have doubts the new money by itself will improve ...
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November 11, 2019 Web Desk
Business
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