#DRC 70 percent of the equipment due to be used for voting in #Kinshasa, where more than 15 percent of the country's population lives, had been destroyed in the fire @kikayabinkarubi told @Reuters
4:08 AM - 13 Dec 2018
Myanmar
Special Report:A prominent member of Myanmar's marginalized Muslim minority, Ko Ni had been receiving death threats for months. But his political idol, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was in power. And so, he continued to work to squeeze the generals out of politics. That would end in tragedy.
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