ECUADOR: The Constitutional Court voted unanimously on Thursday to reject multiple challenges to President Guillermo Lasso’s decree dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly as it tried to oust him in an impeachment trial.

With the ruling, there are no impediments to the country’s electoral body calling presidential and legislative elections, which are tentatively set for August.

ZIMBABWE: Authorities have freed more than 4,000 inmates in an effort to decongest the country’s overcrowded jails.