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Ireland has voted by a landslide to liberalise some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws in what its prime minister described as the culmination of a "quiet revolution".

Khomotso Phahlane has distanced himself from allegations that two Ipid officials and a vetting officer were allegedly offered jobs to discredit Robert McBride on his handling of Phahlane’s case.

The Department of Basic Education is using Africa Month to plan for a curriculum overhaul from a Eurocentric model to an Afrocentric system.

It is estimated around 3500 children are abandoned annually in the country - 300 a month