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Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso has imposed a state of emergency in three provinces over drug-related violence.
Lasso blamed drug trafficking gangs who use the country as a transit point for exporting narcotics to the United States and Europe for the violence.
He noted that police and soldiers will be deployed to patrol the three provinces during the two-month state of emergency, and a curfew enforced between 11pm and 5am.
According to official figures, drug trafficking in Ecuador has led to a surge in crime, with 1,255 people killed since the start of the year.
The federal government has warned of the effects of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, who called for an end to the practice, described it as ancient and crude. Tallen stressed that FGM is a crime against humanity, and leads to grave health consequences for the female gender. She maintained that there was no excuse to condone mutilating females in the name of culture. Female genital […]
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