DRC

Landmark voter turnout in Democratic Republic of Congo elections

31 July - Eighty percent of the Democratic Republic of Congo's newly registered 25.7 million voters turned out Sunday for the country's first democratic elections in over 40 years. Read the full story


West Africa

UNDP and ECOWAS launch new programme on small arms control

A child stands by a promotional sign for the CEDEAO project

June 6 - The project’s objective is to control the sales and trafficking of small arms in West Africa policies of ECOWAS, to help build capacity of the region’s national Small Arms Commissions, and to provide technical support to the Small Arms Unit of ECOWAS secretariat. Read the full story

 

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