REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM KEY DR CONGO TOWN 'AFTER US REQUEST'. (PHOTO)

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 Rebels to withdraw from key DR Congo town 'after US request' The M23 rebel group has said it would withdraw from the eastern DR Congo town of Uvira at the request of the US administration, which had criticised seizure of the town last week as a threat to mediation efforts. The rebels entered Uvira, on the border with Burundi, less than a week after the presidents of Congo and Rwanda met with US President Donald Trump in Washington and affirmed their commitment to a peace deal known as the Washington Accords. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Rwanda's actions in eastern Congo violated the Washington Accords and vowed to "take action to ensure promises made to the President are kept." A report by a United Nations group of experts in July said Rwanda exercised command and control over the rebels. Rwanda denies supporting M23 and has blamed Congolese and Burundian forces for the renewed fighting. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Allia...

HIJAB CASE FILED AGAINST A CLOTHING COMPANY IN AMERICA,WAS WON BY A MUSLIM WOMAN,YESTERDAY.

                            The U.S Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a muslim woman who sued after being denied a job at a clothing store because she showed up to the interview wearing hijab.The clothing compan declined to hire Samantha Elauf  in 2008 as a sales associate because her Hijab violated the company's ''Look policy'',which at the time prohibited employees from wearing head coverings.Samantha Elauf was never informed of the ''Look policy''.Elauf filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on an 8-1 vote yesterday monday,the justice handed a victory to a federal agency that Sued the clothing company Abercromble & Fitch on behalf of job applicant Samantha Elauf.The company argued that it's store policy bans sales employess from wearing ''caps'' of any type and that Elauf,then 17 should have made clear in her 2008 interview that she needed a religious accommodation.A jury eventually awarded Samantha $20,000 but the 10th U.S circuit of appeals in Denver,Colorado,threw out the award and concluded that Abercromble & Fitch could not be held liable because Elauf never asked the company to relax its policy against head scarves.The ruling was welcomed by the council on American Islamic Relations {CAIR} which campaigns for the civil liberties of Muslim communities in the defence of religions freedom at a time when the American muslim community is facing increased levels of Islamophobia''.Said CAIR National Executive Director Nhad Awad.

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