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Kabila in Power: An Assessment

11/08/2018 GMT

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President Kabila's time in power; Monsanto to pay millions; 100 impactful women

President Joseph Kabila of the DRC prepares to leave office and we assess his time in power; US agro-chemical firm Monsanto is ordered to pay millions; 100 most impactful women.

As President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo prepares to leave office later this year, we look back at his time in power; the US agro-chemical firm, Monsanto, is ordered to pay nearly two-hundred-and-ninety million dollars in damages to a man who said its weedkiller made him terminally ill; 100 most impactful women.

(Image: President Joseph Kabila. Credit: AP)

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