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• South Africa: Police Failure to Help in Domestic Violence Cases Is Misconduct - Human Rights Lawyers
  [News24Wire] Police failure to assist complainants with respect to the Domestic Violence Act (116 of 1998) has been viewed as misconduct, and a disciplinable offence, the Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Wednesday.
  
  
• Rwanda: Human Rights Body, Stakeholders Devise Ways to Fight Child Sex Abuse
  [New Times] There is need for more collaboration to successfully track down and prosecute suspects involved in child sex abuse, a rights meeting has heard.
  
  
• Africa: Ex-Tanzanian President Calls for Midwifery Global Policy Reforms
  [Daily News] Retired President Jakaya Kikwete has called for urgent global policy reform on midwifery and recognition of the profession, saying skilled and educated midwives can provide essential healthcare needed during pregnancy.
  
  
• East Africa: DR Congo, South Sudan Youth Refugees Ask UN to End Conflicts
  [Monitor] Kampala -As Uganda hosts the Solidarity Summit on Refugees tomorrow, DR Congo and South Sudan youth refugees have asked the United Nations (UN) to focus more on ending conflicts in their countries than raising money for refugees.
  
  
• Ethiopia: No Border Wall for Ethiopia, Rather an Open Door - Even for Its Enemy
  [IPS] Adinbried -It's one thing to read about the exodus of souls flowing out of Eritrea, it's quite another to look into the tired eyes, surrounded by dust and grime, of a 14-year-old Eritrean girl who's just arrived on the Ethiopian side of the shared border.
  
  
• Tanzania: Family Planning Is 'Sure' Pathway to Poverty Reduction
  [Daily News] Robust family planning services are widely recognised as cost effective health intervention and essential components of sustainable development and poverty alleviation.
  
  
• Tanzania: Police Successfully Curb Albino Killing, Legislators Told
  [Daily News] Dodoma -Police have successfully managed to reduce the number of deaths that involve elders and people with albinism in Ushetu District, Shinyanga region in the period of seven years.
  
  
• East Africa: Tanzanians Officials Seek Out Work Permits On World Refugee Anniversary
  [Daily News] Bukoba -AS Tanzanians marked the International Refugee Day yesterday, authorities in Kagera Regionhave tightened surveillance on border posts to control invasion of illegal immigrants - even as officials screened work permits of foreigners in public and private sectors to establish genuine expatriates with a view to releasing more job opportunities to qualified Tanzanians.
  
  
• Uganda: Apaa Land Clashes Death Toll Rises to Nine
  [Monitor] Gulu -Police have recovered a decomposing body of a man suspected to have been killed in the recent clashes between the Madi and Acholi in Apaa parish, Zoka Village, Adjumani District.
  
  
• Uganda: Go On, Run for Cancer, Jump for Water but Who's Gonna Fight for Your Rights?
  [Monitor] Kampala has never really been a city for walking, let alone running. The sweltering heat and stifling humidity, the steep hills, the gaping manholes hidden around every street corner, the missing pavement, the mad boda boda riders, loitering louts with long fingers, malicious matatu drivers, and a habit of eating food portions at each sitting large enough to feed a dozen refugees are all to blame.
  
  
• Gambia: Activist Wants Govt Assurance On FGM, Child Marriage Laws
  [The Point] FGM activist and founder of Safe Hands for Girls, Jaha Dukureh, has called on the new government to affirm publicly that Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage laws passed by the former regime are here to stay.
  
  
• Liberia: PPAL Call for End to Early and Forced Child Marriage
  [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -The Planned Parenthood Association of Liberia joined other countries this year, June 16, 2017 to commemorate The Day of the African Child with a call to end child, early and forced marriage.
  
  
• Uganda: Police Driver Acquitted of Knocking Besigye Supporter
  [Monitor] Kampala -The Police Disciplinary Tribunal has acquitted Constable Benon Matsiko, the driver who knocked down Dr Kizza Besigye's supporter at Kyebando in July last year.
  
  
• Nigeria: Physician Testifies in Journalist's Suit Against Customs Over Assault
  [Guardian] A medical practitioner, Akintayo Akintoba, yesterday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that series of medical examinations were conducted on a battered journalist, Yomi Olomofe.
  
  
• Tanzania: Yes, Schoolgirls Need Proper Societal Care
  [Daily News] It has come to light that a group of well-wishers, who have the welfare of young women at heart, has seen the predicament that afflicts schoolgirls in Kisarawe District secondary schools.