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DR Congo: rebels “prevent access to care” for victims of sexual violence

Doctors Without Borders denounced on Monday, November 9, measures put in place in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo by the M23 group, recently renamed FRN, which have hindered access to care for victims of sexual violence and caused a sudden drop in consultations. The east of the DRC has been torn by conflicts for more than thirty years and sexual violence is a scourge. Details from Isabelle Defourny, president of Médecins Sans Frontières France.

France 24
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South Africa: the ANC suffers the worst score in its electoral history for more than 30 years

The African National Congress (ANC), the dominant party in South African politics since the end of apartheid, obtained 30.76% of the vote in the municipal elections on Sunday 8 November. These results show the spectacular decline of the ANC, the party of Nelson Mandela, a figure in the fight against the racist apartheid regime, which won almost two thirds of the votes in the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.

France 24
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