Soldiers open fire on Nigerian protesters in Lagos -witnesses
ALEXIS AKWAGYIRAM and LIBBY GEORGE SOLDIERS have opened fire on Nigerian protesters in the Lekki district of the commercial capital
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Month: October 2020
More arrests loom as South Africa’s COVID billions are probed
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER AS South Africa’s crackdown on COVID-19 corruption gains steam, it has emerged that a staggering 67% of
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Sudan has paid the $335-million compensation for U.S. bombing
SUDAN has transferred the compensation it has agreed to pay U.S. victims of militant attacks and their families, the central
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“Prophet” Shepherd Bushiri arrested in R102-million fraud and money laundering case
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SHEPHERD Bushiri, one of Africa’s influential and rich religious leaders, has been arrested by the South African
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Mali soldiers airdrop provisions to village besieged by suspected jihadists
MALI’S military has airdropped food into a village in the centre of the country where more than 2,000 residents have
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Lagos imposes 24-hour curfew amid protests against Nigeria’s police
ALEXIS AKWAGYIRAM and LIBBY GEORGE THE Nigerian state of Lagos has imposed a 24-hour curfew, saying protests against alleged police
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Botswana sees 7.7 % growth in 2021 on diamond industry recovery
BOTSWANA’S economy will rebound and grow 7.7% in 2021 from an 8.9% contraction forecast this year, on the back of
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Nigeria’s battered farmers to get $20 million to aid crop output
ABRAHAM ACHIRGA and LIBBY GEORGE MARY Daniel, a slight woman in her 40s, weeds by hand a field dotted with
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‘It got scary’: Gloria Estefan’s daughter on coming out as a lesbian
HUGO GREENHALGH FORBIDDEN by her global superstar mother Gloria Estefan from coming out as a lesbian to her grandmother, singer
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Young Egyptian remembers father killed by COVID-19 as she heads back to school
WHEN 12-year-old Sama Mohamed’s father died of the coronavirus in May, the family tried cutting expenses. With the school year
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