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Elom TOBLE

Rwanda : vote counting underway as polls close

A suspected Kenyan serial killer claims to have mutilated and murdered dozens of women over just a couple of years. Collins Khalusa was arrested while watching the Euro finals, after the bodies of nine women were found dumped in a quarry in Nairobi.

In other news, ballot papers are being counted for Rwanda's general election, but there are unlikely to be any surprises as President Paul Kagame is all but guaranteed to win a fourth term by a landslide. He is credited with both rebuilding the post-genocide nation and ruthlessly silencing critics.

Finally, women’s rights campaigners have celebrated the Gambian parliament’s rejection of a bill that would have legalised female genital mutilation. The practice has been banned since 2015, but the lawmaker who proposed the bill claimed he was upholding Gambian culture, despite widespread local opposition to his argument.

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