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May
31
2023
By BATE FELIX and NGOUDA DIONE
Senegal unrest flares again over opposition leader

Senegal unrest flares again over opposition leader

NEWS
DOZENS of protesters clashed with security forces in Senegal's capital, Dakar, after lawmakers and supporters were blocked from visiting the home of a prominent opposition politician on trial for rape and libel. Police fired tear gas on demonstrators who built makeshift barricades along one of Dakar's main highways and in one neighbourhood set cars and a ministerial building on fire. It is the latest round in months of unrest triggered by President Macky Sall's refusal to rule out running for a third term in office and by court cases involving a leading rival, Ousmane Sonko, who denies wrongdoing and says…
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May
31
2023
By NYASHA CHINGONO
In Zimbabwe, female rugby team seeks to keep girls off the streets

In Zimbabwe, female rugby team seeks to keep girls off the streets

NEWS
BRIDGET Magasu is the first to arrive for the training session, clutching a rugby ball while she waits for other members of her all-female rugby team to arrive. Usually, a sport reserved for the affluent suburbs of Zimbabwe's major cities, rugby is making inroads in the countryside, where it offers a release from the woes of poverty, early marriage and unemployment which have blighted the southern African country for decades. And while joining a rugby club does not ease the economic struggles of the women and girls, organisers hope it will at least help tackle the boredom that prompts them…
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May
31
2023
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s Sisi, Turkey’s Erdogan agree on reinstating ambassadors, Egypt’s presidency says

Egypt’s Sisi, Turkey’s Erdogan agree on reinstating ambassadors, Egypt’s presidency says

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EGYPT President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on "the immediate start of upgrading diplomatic relations, exchanging ambassadors," Egypt's presidency said in a statement. Sisi spoke with Erdogan in a phone call to congratulate him on his presidential win. Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry visited Turkey in April and met his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, the two parties agreed then on a specific time frame to raise the level of diplomatic relations and to prepare for a summit between the two presidents. The presidents may meet in person again after Turkey's May 14 election, Cavusoglu said…
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May
30
2023
By FELIX ONUAH and MACDONALD DZIRUTWE
Nigeria: President Tinubu’s economy, security test

Nigeria: President Tinubu’s economy, security test

NEWS
NIGERIA'S new President Bola Tinubu vowed at his swearing-in to expand the economy by at least 6% a year, lift barriers to investment, create jobs and unify the exchange rate, while also tackling rampant insecurity. Tinubu inherits a struggling economy with record debt, shortages of foreign exchange and fuel, a weak naira currency, nearly two-decades-high inflation, skeletal power supplies and falling oil production due to crude theft and underinvestment. Protectionist policies and foreign currency interventions under predecessor Muhammadu Buhari spooked investors. "On the economy, we target a higher GDP growth and to significantly reduce unemployment," he said, adding that this…
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May
30
2023
By SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Five African countries to join tier-topping economic growth list amid GDP rebound

Five African countries to join tier-topping economic growth list amid GDP rebound

NEWS
BENIN, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Tanzania are on course to post some of the strongest economic growth rates globally - a show of resilience in the face of troubling global headwinds. A robust combination of domestic policy reforms, increased investment and strategic sectors will mark those nations' outstanding economic outcomes, according to the African Economic Outlook 2023. The countries are bright spots in a continental economy still shaking off residual pandemic shocks. Amid a flurry of global and local challenges, African economies are exhibiting impressive overall resilience, however, with average growth predicted to stabilise at 4% in 2023-24, surpassing…
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May
30
2023
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
SUDAN: Dozens babies die in orphanage

SUDAN: Dozens babies die in orphanage

NEWS
IN the days after war erupted in Khartoum, Dr Abeer Abdullah rushed between rooms at Sudan’s largest orphanage, trying to care for hundreds of babies and toddlers as the fighting kept all but a handful of staff away. Children’s cries rang through the sprawling building as heavy gunfire rocked the surroundings, she said. Then came waves of deaths. There were the infants housed on the upper floors of the state-run orphanage, known as Mygoma. Without enough staff to care for them, they succumbed to severe malnutrition and dehydration, the doctor said. And there were the already-fragile newborns in her medical…
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May
30
2023
By ATIENO ODERA, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Kakenya Ntaiya’s dream is to end a brutal custom. She’s had some unexpected help

Kakenya Ntaiya’s dream is to end a brutal custom. She’s had some unexpected help

NEWS
AS a young girl growing up in Enoosaen, a rural Maasai village in southwestern Kenya, Kakenya Ntaiya's fate seemed determined from birth. After undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) at puberty, she was expected to stop her education and start life as a married woman. In the Maasai community, female genital mutilation includes the removal of the entire exterior of the clitoris. This usually takes place in the homestead, with the use of a sharp knife or razor. Though the practice is banned in Kenya, many elders continue to consider the practice a prerequisite for the transition from childhood to womanhood.…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Senegal: Cyberattack on govt websites

Senegal: Cyberattack on govt websites

NEWS
A group of hackers called Mysterious Team made multiple Senegalese government websites go offline overnight by hitting them with denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, a government spokesperson said. The group claimed responsibility for the cyber attacks in a series of Twitter posts using the hashtag #FreeSenegal used by campaigners alleging political repression in Senegal. The attacks come at a time of heightened political tensions in Senegal. One person was killed on Friday in the latest violent standoff between state security forces and opposition supporters. In a statement about the cyber attacks in the early hours of Saturday, government spokesperson Abdou Karim Fofana said all…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
South Africa to investigate US allegation of arms shipment to Russia

South Africa to investigate US allegation of arms shipment to Russia

NEWS
SOUTH Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate U.S. allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year, the presidency said in a statement. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety said on May 11 that he was confident that a Russian ship, which docked at a naval base in Simonstown in the Western Cape in December last year, took aboard weapons from South Africa. An allegation South Africa has since denied. The allegations have caused a diplomatic row between the U.S., South Africa and Russia and called into…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Ugandan soldiers die in Somali attack

Ugandan soldiers die in Somali attack

NEWS
UGANDA'S President Yoweri Museveni said late there had been casualties during an attack by Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on a military base manned by Ugandan peacekeepers in the Horn of African country. Museveni did not say how many soldiers were killed or wounded but it was the first official admission of losses in the attack among the Ugandan troops who are serving in the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). "Condolences to the country and the families of those who died," Museveni said in a statement, adding the country's military had set up a panel to investigate what…
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