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Zimbabwe: Constitutional court bans caning
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Zimbabwe’s constitutional court has outlawed judicial corporal punishment with immediate effect, after a nine member bench ruled that caning was a degrading punishment;
The prime minister of Belgium, Charles Michel, has apologised on behalf of the Belgian state for the injustices it inflicted on thousands of mixed-race children born during the country's colonial rule of Burundi, Congo and Rwanda;
And it's 25 years since Rwanda's genocide - which saw over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus murdered.
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Thu 4 Apr 201917:06GMT
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