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Several thousand people have taken to the streets of the Chadian capital N'Djamena to celebrate the arrest of their former President Hissene Habre. Demonstrators waved placards with pictures of those who were killed when he led the country in the 1980s. On Tuesday a special tribunal in Senegal charged him with war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture.
The Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has launched his campaign for re-election. Zimbabweans are due to vote at the end of the month, five years after the last elections ended in bloodshed. Andrew Harding reports.
"This is a do-or-die struggle.” Mr Mugabe told a crowd of supporters in Harare today. “Go into battle well-armed.” And “battle” may be the right word. Despite his rivals’ attempts to delay it, the election seems set for the 31st of July. Mr Mugabe and his Zanu PF party are forging ahead without agreeing to any of the key security, media and electoral reforms demanded by regional mediators. There are also allegations that the electoral role has been badly compromised with analysts warning the vote may not be free or fair or peaceful.
Morocco’s Islamist-led government has presented a new plan to promote women’s rights. Richard Hamilton has more details.
Morocco’s minister for women, Bassima Hakkaoui, is a prime mover behind these new proposals. Originally her party, the Islamist PJD, rejected the plan when in opposition, but then changed it to exclude legalising abortions when it came to power two years ago. Morocco’s new constitution also guarantees equality between men and women, but there’s still only one female government minister.