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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47042101 Women that have been raped by security forces during the night raids to suppress recent protests have been urged to report their cases to police officers. Only one attack has been reported out of the many allegations that have been made. There is a lot of mistrust between the women and the authorities because they were also involved in the crackdown of the protests. The state-funded Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission accused soldiers of using "systematic torture" in the crackdown. One woman claims that the soldiers openly agreed that they both wanted to have sex.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-46944062?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5c46d3bdacf409067716a45a%26Nigeria%20finds%2020%2C000%20kidnapped%20girls%20in%20Mali%262019-01-22T09%3A25%3A52.202Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:ca9875a8-2c4d-402d-852d-4fdc57b44c2b&pinned_post_asset_id=5c46d3bdacf409067716a45a&pinned_post_type=share Nigeria has created a department that is suppose to help stop human trafficking and it has been helping. This department from the Nigerian government has helped find 20,000 girls stranded in Mali. The department or agency is called The National Agency for the Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons, NAPTIP for short. Some of the girls were told that they were going to Malaysia to work while others were just kidnapped on their way to or from school. The agency is working with the Nigerian government, the Malaysian authorities and the International Organization of Migration (IOM) to

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45035889 There have been sitings of Russian politicians and wealthy businessmen in the African continent. The president of Russia Vladimir Putin believes that he has the right to expand his business and the business of Russia anywhere that he pleases. Russia is seeking to restore and strengthen its influences in Africa like it once had had them. Algeria in particular is the biggest customer for Russia. Russia is selling the people of Africa cheaper military equipment than they would get from the United States. Russia is also using Africa for its minerals, it is cheaper to get them from Africa than it would be for them to get them elsewhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/world/africa/south-africa-train-crash.html Two trains crashed together in South Africas administrative capital Pretoria. The crash left 300 people injured. The moving train crashed into a stationary train and left around 82 people seriously injured at the Mountain View station. Emergency officials  believe that there will be more people found as they continue to look through the wreckage. There have been a series of train accidents in South Africa. South Africa has the largest rail network ever.