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Rwanda imposes countrywide ban on skin bleaching products

Agne Amiwanak(right), a Kigali resident who uses skin bleaching products Photo: Aljazeera

Skin-lightening products are being removed from shop shelves in Rwanda following a government ban.

The creams and soaps, whose sales in Africa are worth billions every year, were banned on November 2018.

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