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Feb
19
2023
By DAWIT ENDESHAW
Top Israeli diplomat ejected from African Union summit as row escalates

Top Israeli diplomat ejected from African Union summit as row escalates

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A senior Israeli diplomat was removed from the African Union's annual summit in Ethiopia, as a dispute over Israel's accreditation to the bloc escalated. Images posted online showed AU security personnel confronting the diplomat during the opening ceremony of the summit, before she left the auditorium. "Israel looks harshly upon the incident in which the deputy director for Africa, Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li, was removed from the African Union hall despite her status as an accredited observer with entrance badges," the foreign ministry said. Ebba Kalondo, the spokesperson for the African Union's commission chairman, said the diplomat had been removed because she was…
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Mar
17
2023
By The African Mirror
U.S. military conducts first maritime drills with West African forces

U.S. military conducts first maritime drills with West African forces

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COOPER INVEEN THE West African troops silently pulled their small boats up to a rust-stained ferry and swarmed up its sides on grappling hooks to disarm the mock kidnappers onboard. The drill in Ghana's Volta river on Saturday was carried out during the first-ever maritime exercises organised by the U.S. military under its long-running Flintlock programme to bolster the skills of West African forces. The sea-based training in the first half of March culminated with soldiers holding their guns aloft as they braved neck-high waves before storming a beach resort to defuse a staged hostage crisis. Military bigwigs and diplomats watched from…
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Feb
20
2023
By The African Mirror
Congo’s M23 rebels killed 20, carried out mass rapes, Amnesty says

Congo’s M23 rebels killed 20, carried out mass rapes, Amnesty says

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FIGHTERS from the Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebel group killed at least 20 men and raped scores of women and girls in the east in November, Amnesty International said in a report. The militia, which stepped up its offensive in regions near the borders of Rwanda and Uganda last year, dismissed the accusations, saying they were part of a smear campaign. The reported death toll was much lower than estimates from the United Nations, which said in December the rebels executed at least 131 people in reprisal killings in a campaign of murder, rape and looting in Kishishe and Bambo villages.…
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Feb
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Powerful Tunisian trade union defies president with mass protests

Powerful Tunisian trade union defies president with mass protests

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TAREK AMARA THOUSANDS of members of Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union took to the streets of eight cities to protest against President Kais Saied's policies, accusing him of trying to stifle basic freedoms including union rights. The protests in eight cities marked an escalation in the union's confrontation with Saied and followed its criticism of the recent arrests of several anti-government figures including politicians, a journalist, two judges and a senior UGTT official. The coordinated arrests have raised fears of a wider crackdown on dissent and prompted the U.N. Human Rights Office to call for the detainees' immediate release. In Saturday's demonstrations, thousands of…
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Feb
19
2023
By The African Mirror
South African cheetahs begin journey to new home in India

South African cheetahs begin journey to new home in India

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TWELVE South African cheetahs began a voyage to India as part of an intergovernmental agreement to reintroduce the big cats to India. They will join eight cheetahs from neighbouring Namibia that were released into the Kuno National Park in central India last year. "The 12 cheetahs... have begun their journey to India," India's environment minister wrote on Twitter on Friday, adding they were expected to arrive on Saturday. They were sedated and loaded into crates and on their way to Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, where they will be picked up by an Indian military aircraft. The cheetahs, 7 males and 5…
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Mar
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Malawi buries cyclone victims as death toll rises further

Malawi buries cyclone victims as death toll rises further

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FRANK PHIRI and MANUEL MUCARI MALAWIAN families gathered to remember and bury the victims of Tropical Cyclone Freddy, with the President Lazarus Chakwera calling on the international community for support as the toll rose further. Freddy tore through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend and was still causing heavy rain on Wednesday, hampering relief efforts. "I am personally so devastated," Chakwera told reporters in Chilobwe township's Naotcha, on the outskirts of Blantyre. "Sometimes when you just pass by these many caskets, you cannot help but shed tears because, loved ones, one whole family completely…
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Mar
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Factbox: Why is Cyclone Freddy a record-breaking storm?

Factbox: Why is Cyclone Freddy a record-breaking storm?

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NELLIE PEYTON TROPICAL cyclone Freddy hit the coast of southern Africa for a second time over the weekend, bringing its total death toll to more than 220 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar. The month-long storm has broken at least one record and could break two more, meteorologists say. As climate change causes warmer oceans, heat energy from the water's surface is fuelling stronger storms. Below are some of the main reasons Freddy is noteworthy. HIGHEST CYCLONE ENERGY Freddy holds the record for most accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), a measure based on a storm's wind strength over its lifetime, of any storm in…
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Mar
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Thousands of Senegal opposition supporters join three-day protest

Thousands of Senegal opposition supporters join three-day protest

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BATE FELIX and NGOUDA DIONE OVER 10,000 supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko massed at a field in the capital Dakar on Tuesday, the first of three days of planned protests in support of the aspiring presidential candidate, who faces a libel case set to resume this week. The demonstrations are the latest expression of growing tensions in Senegal in the run-up to a 2024 election that could see President Macky Sall vie for a controversial third term, which the opposition says is unconstitutional. Sall, 61, has neither confirmed nor denied that he plans to run, amid widespread speculation.…
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Mar
16
2023
By The African Mirror
At least 21 confirmed dead in Gabon ferry accident

At least 21 confirmed dead in Gabon ferry accident

NEWS
GERAUDS WILFRIED OBANGOME SEARCH teams in Gabon have recovered the dead bodies of 15 passengers of a ferry that sank off the West African country's coast last week, bringing the provisional death toll up to 21, the coordinator of rescue operations said. The Esther Miracle ferry was carrying 161 passengers from Libreville to Port-Gentil when it sank close to the coastal village of Nyonie on March 9. Authorities confirmed six deaths on Monday and were still searching for 31 missing people. Air force planes and diving teams had been sent to conduct daily search operations. Head of rescue operations Bekale Meyong said…
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