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Tear Gas Used To Disperse Election Protesters in DRC
Protestors continue to calls for the right to vote in the country's upcoming elections
Protestors in the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to demand the right to vote in upcoming elections. The electoral commission has postponed voting in three cities in the east of the country.
In Mozambique, the government has lifted a law which stopped pregnant girls from attending school with other pupils.
(Protesters march in front of a police platoon near the electoral commission in Beni. Credit: AFP)
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