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Announcing its decision to leave Eccas, Rwanda said its right to take up the "chairmanship… was deliberately ignored in order to impose the DRC's diktat".

I understand that Trump is currently demanding that his staff keep bringing him more executive orders every day because he finds handing down diktats from on high so gratifying.

The Taliban government says it has been trying to resolve the issue of women's education, but has also defended its supreme leader's diktats, saying they are "in accordance with Islamic Sharia law".

The Liberal Democrats' spokeswoman Vikki Slade said local government needed "significant reform" but expressed concern that local voices would be bypassed by a "top-down diktat" from Whitehall.

And it refused to accept another authoritarian diktat.