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Mar
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria counts votes in elections to choose new state governors

Nigeria counts votes in elections to choose new state governors

NEWS
MACDONALD DZIRUTWE NIGERIA'S election officials counted ballots after polls closed in a delayed vote to pick new state governors, amid reports of scattered violence and voter intimidation, including in Lagos, where a tight race was expected. Polls began closing from 1330 GMT and counting immediately followed, but time was extended where voting started late. Final results are expected by Monday. In southeastern Imo state, a hotbed of separatist violence, security forces rescued 19 electoral officials who had been abducted by thugs, but election materials were lost, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said. "While the commission remains grateful to the…
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Mar
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Malawians search for relatives buried under the mud as death toll jumps

Malawians search for relatives buried under the mud as death toll jumps

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IN Malawi, where floods swept away entire villages this month after a storm tore through its southern districts, police officers and soldiers dug for victims buried under the mud and rocks as the death toll rose sharply. The storm has pounded the southern African country as tropical Cyclone Freddy swept through the region killing more than 500 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar since it first made landfall in Africa in late February and circled back for a second time over the weekend. While the storm had dissipated, the rain continued to hamper rescue efforts as vehicles struggled on flooded…
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Feb
23
2023
By The African Mirror
South Africa govt to take on half of struggling Eskom’s debt

South Africa govt to take on half of struggling Eskom’s debt

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OLIVIA KUMWENDA-MTAMBO, WENDELL ROELF and KOPANO GUMBI SOUTH Africa's government plans to take on more than half of struggling state power company Eskom's debt over the next three years to help strengthen its balance sheet and operations and enable it to restructure, National Treasury said on Wednesday. Treasury said the government would take on 254 billion rands ($14 billion) of Eskom's 423 billion rand debt that was at risk of default, to enable the utility to pay down the debt and interest obligations. The move will free up money for spending on maintenance and the transmission and distribution parts of…
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Feb
22
2023
By The African Mirror
Vietnamese ivory, rhino horn trafficker jailed for 13 years

Vietnamese ivory, rhino horn trafficker jailed for 13 years

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A court in Vietnam sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trafficking nearly 10 tonnes of endangered animal parts from Africa, including ivory and rhino horns, police said. The court in the central coastal city of Danang found Nguyen Duc Tai, 33, guilty of transporting elephant tusks, ivory, pangolin scales and lion bones from Africa to Vietnam in 2021, the police-run ministry of public security said. Trade in ivory is illegal in Vietnam but wildlife trafficking remains widespread. The country is a transit point for elephant ivory for consumers in mostly China and the United States and Vietnam…
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Mar
18
2023
By The African Mirror
A Digital Transformation: How migration to the internet will transform Africa – report

A Digital Transformation: How migration to the internet will transform Africa – report

NEWS
BIRD STORY AGENCY AFRICA’S growing population is projected to become the largest in the world by 2100, with more than 22 million Africans joining the workforce annually. While this growth is often considered a threat to Africa’s socioeconomic well-being, a new report shows the trend could advantage the continent. Characterised by an innovative and highly creative youthful population, a World Bank report shows Africa leveraging digital technologies to bridge unemployment and fuel rapid economic growth. Regional integration and climate transition are seen as key drivers of change. The report, ‘Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs’ shows regional integration will open…
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Feb
22
2023
By CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
World’s leading luxury hotels expanding across Africa in multi-billion dollar expansion drive

World’s leading luxury hotels expanding across Africa in multi-billion dollar expansion drive

NEWS
AS international travellers troop back to Africa, some of the world's major hotel chains are re-igniting a multi-billion dollar expansion race that began pre-pandemic. Marriott, Radisson Blu and Hyatt are heading the race for a bigger slice of Africa's hospitality pie as they ramp up their presence, mainly through acquisitions and property management deals and push their select-service brands across the continent. American multinational hospitality company Hyatt Hotels Corporation recently announced it would reestablish its presence in South Africa with Park Hyatt Johannesburg in late 2023 and enter Morocco with Park Hyatt Marrakech through acquisitions of local brands. It also…
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Mar
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Mobile court offers the rare chance of justice for east Congo rape victims

Mobile court offers the rare chance of justice for east Congo rape victims

NEWS
CRISPIN KYALA A large crowd gathered around the open sides of the makeshift courtroom in the eastern Congolese village of Kamanyola in early March to watch the culmination of a trial of 15 military officers for the rape of minors. They watched in silence, some craning to see better, as a soldier stripped the epaulettes of a colonel whom a judge had just ordered be dishonourably discharged from the army and sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a local 14-year-old girl last September. "The fact that a very high-ranking officer has been sentenced is a very eloquent message…
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Mar
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Blinken announces $150 mln in new aid for Sahel

Blinken announces $150 mln in new aid for Sahel

NEWS
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $150 million in new humanitarian assistance for Africa's Sahel region, saying it would provide life-saving support to refugees and others impacted by conflict and food insecurity. Making the announcement during a visit to Niger, Blinken said the aid would address needs in Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Mauritania. The package also included funding to support Sahelian refugees in Libya and Niger, he said. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Feb
22
2023
By CARIEN DU PLESSIS
South African cities scramble to keep the lights on

South African cities scramble to keep the lights on

NEWS
REELING from South Africa's worst-ever electricity crisis, local authorities across the country are turning to private suppliers to help businesses and households keep the lights on. President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of disaster over the energy crunch, which is seen wiping as much as 2 percentage points off economic growth this year. With South Africans spending up to 10 hours a day without electricity due to rolling blackouts by struggling state utility Eskom, the tourist city of Cape Town aims to halve power cuts for its residents by 2026, its executive director for energy Kadri Nassiep said. Officials plan to procure up…
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Mar
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Eastern Libya forces say they have found missing uranium

Eastern Libya forces say they have found missing uranium

NEWS
EASTERN Libyan forces said that 10 drums of uranium declared missing by the U.N. nuclear watchdog had been found near the warehouse they were taken from in southern Libya. Khaled Mahjoub, head of a media unit for the Libyan National Army, the main eastern military force, said in a statement that the 10 missing barrels had been recovered, though a separate video he sent showed workers counting 18. The IAEA said in a confidential statement to member states seen by Reuters that it detected the missing uranium during a check at an unnamed site in Libya on Tuesday which it had postponed…
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