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DR Congo opposition party to appeal leader's 'inadmissibility' at elections
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
The Congolese Electoral Commission bars opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from contesting in the upcoming elections. We hear from MLC's party secretary Ève Bazaiba + Churches is Zambia want the government to enforce stiffer laws on the sharing of obscene material on WhatsApp + We mark the commemoration of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition with Lisa Misztak, who reports from London.
(Photo: Congolese opponent Jean-Pierre Bemba. Credit: JUNIOR D. KANNAH/AFP/Getty Images)
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Sat 25 Aug 201819:06GMT
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