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Mali FM: Massacre allegations part of a ‘smear campaign’
Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop rejects claims that the army, alongside Russian mercenaries, massacred civilians.
Mali's Foreign Minister rejects the claim that the country’s military, alongside Russian mercenaries, massacred hundreds of civilians. He says the allegations are “false”.
South African church leaders are offering counselling and pastoral care to the many people who have lost everything in the floods in KwaZulu-Natal.
And we drop in on the Resident Presidents.
Photo: Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop. Credit: Getty Images.
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