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Mental Health campaign launched to end abuse.
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
Human Rights Watch launches campaign to try and end the shackling and chaining of mental health patients.
ECOWAS lifts sanctions imposed on Mali following the coup d’etat that ousted former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.
And we hear from a young Malawian who has designed an ‘e-learning’ platform to help solve some of the challenges posed by Covid-19.
(Picture: A chained mental patient is seen at the psychiatry department of Juba Education Hospital in Juba, South Sudan on October 11, 2016. Photo Credit: Bruno Bierrenbach Feder via Getty Images)
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