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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) -Gabon’s coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema looked to cement his grip on power as the oil-producing Central African nation held a presidential election on Saturday that analysts expected to be a one-sided affair. Nineteen months after overthrowing President Ali Bongo, whose family ruled Gabon for more than half a …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Children including toddlers represent more than a third of victims in nearly 10,000 cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence committed in eastern Congo in the first two months of the year, the U.N. children’s agency said on Friday. M23 rebels seized parts of eastern Congo earlier this year as …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzanian opposition party leader Tundu Lissu was on Thursday charged with treason, a capital offence, for comments he made last week that prosecutors said called on the public to launch a rebellion and disrupt an election due this year. The charges against Lissu, the chairman of the main opposition party CHADEMA and runner-up …

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By Tarek Amara Tunis (Reuters) – Hundreds of Tunisians staged two protest rallies on Wednesday against what they say is the authoritarian rule of President Kais Saied and demanded the release of political prisoners, while six detained opposition figures held a hunger strike. The rallies highlight the opposition’s growing concerns about what it sees as …

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