Zimbabwe Announces Taskforce on Army Abuses

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President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has appointed a taskforce to look into alleged human rights abuses by soldiers in the aftermath of elections last year. An arctic cold snap has sent temperatures plunging across the Midwest in the US and Canada, closing schools, businesses, and state government offices. South Sudan’s Ministry of Health has started vaccinating health workers against the Ebola virus as a preventative measure, as an outbreak plagues their southern neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Congo.