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 Tanzania stepping up crackdown on critics after recent polls, UN warns Tanzania has stepped up its crackdown on opponents after contested elections in October that were marred by deadly violence, the United Nations warned Friday, AFP reported. Rights groups say more than 1,000 people were shot dead during three days of protests over elections on October 29 that the opposition and foreign observers describe as fraudulent. Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan retained the presidency with 98 percent of the vote, but the main opposition candidates were either jailed or disqualified. "The government has intensified a crackdown against opponents since the vote," UN human rights office spokesman Seif Magango told a press briefing in Geneva. "Reports indicate that since mid-November, dozens of individuals including academics, civil society actors and local political leaders have been detained, with several arrests allegedly carried out by unidentified armed personnel....

SPAIN HAS ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR AN APP THAT WILL TELL WIVES IF THEIR MEN ARE DOING ENOUGH HOUSEWORK.(PHOTO).



Spain has announced plans for an app that will tell wives if their men are doing enough housework.



The new app intends to address the gender imbalance of housework and will log the hours a family member spends doing chores.


Ángela Rodríguez, Spain's minister for gender equality and domestic violence, said her department is in the process of developing the free app.


The minister said it would enable men and women to log the number of hours they spend doing chores around the house.


The government hopes the app will be released in the summer and will be unveiled as part of its 'co-responsibility plan'.


'We women spend more time on domestic tasks than men,' Rodriguez said, as reported by The Times.


The minister was speaking at a conference in Geneva discussing discrimination against women. The minister presented a report at the convention on Spain's women's rights.


Rodriguez said nearly half of the women who took part in a survey by Spain's National Statistics Institute said they did the majority of the housework in their homes, meaning less than 15 percent of men said they did the majority of the house chores.


This disparity has even caused legal rows in Spain. In April 2017, a court in Cantabria ordered a man to pay his ex-wife over €23,000 (almost £20,000) for the housework she undertook over their six years together.


Earlier this year, a court in Velez-Malaga ordered a businessman to pay his ex-wife €204,624.86 (around £180,000) for 25 years of unpaid domestic labour, based on the minimum wage throughout their marriage.

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