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The World Health Organization said on Friday it is deploying experts on preventing sexual exploitation in 10 "high-risk" countries, after a major scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo where its staff and other aid workers abused women.
A journalist arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month for possessing a video showing the assassination of two U.N. sanctions monitors in 2017 was granted provisional release on Tuesday pending further investigation, his lawyer said.
Democratic Republic of Congo should renegotiate its $6 billion infrastructure-for-minerals deal with Chinese investors, according to the draft of a report commissioned by a global anti-corruption body of governments, companies and activists.
(Corrects total number of outbreaks to 12 from 11 in paragraph 6)
The head of the World Health Organization came under U.S.-led pressure from donors on Friday to act quickly on a damning report on a sexual assault scandal that has engulfed it and other aid agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.