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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria won’t use 240 new polling units due to insecurity – electoral commission

Nigeria won’t use 240 new polling units due to insecurity – electoral commission

NEWS
CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA'S electoral commission head said that 240 polling centres will not be used in upcoming elections, as no one had chosen them due to insecurity in the surrounding areas. Separatist and gang violence is a major concern for Nigerians when they vote on February 25 for new members of parliament and for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. When new voters register in Nigeria, they are allowed to choose a polling centre. Most people choose the nearest to where they live because movement is restricted by security agencies on election day. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood…
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Mar
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Moroccan palace asks Islamist party to stop criticizing ties with Israel

Moroccan palace asks Islamist party to stop criticizing ties with Israel

NEWS
MOROCCO'S royal palace asked the largest Islamist party, the PJD, to stop taking aim at the country's ties with Israel after the party rebuked the foreign minister for defending Israel at the expense of Palestinians. Renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians poses a challenge to Arab countries that have normalised ties with Israel. Morocco resumed diplomatic ties with Israel in late 2020 after a deal brokered by the Trump administration that also included Washington's recognition of Rabat's sovereignty over Western Sahara, a disputed territory where the Algeria-backed Polisario Front seeks to establish its own state. "The general secretariat condemns the…
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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenyan army to join police in fighting bandits, cattle rustlers in northwest

Kenyan army to join police in fighting bandits, cattle rustlers in northwest

NEWS
KENYAN soldiers will join the police to fight "rampant incidents of banditry" across the arid northwest that have killed more than 100 civilians and 16 police officers over the past six months, officials said. President William Ruto, who came to power in last August's election, has promised to restore security to the drought-stricken borderlands with Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, where endemic cattle rustling has been aggravated by the proliferation of automatic weapons. Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said the situation in the northern Rift Valley Region constituted a national emergency and gave people in the area three days to surrender…
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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisia arrests more prominent critics of president

Tunisia arrests more prominent critics of president

NEWS
TAREK AMARA TUNISIAN police two prominent opponents of President Kais Saied and the head of a radio station that has broadcast criticism of the president, part of a wave of arrests targeting politicians and other critics of the government. Police raided the house of Noureddine Bhiri, a senior official in the biggest opposition party Ennahda and a prominent critic of Saied, and took him away, his lawyer Samir Dilou said by phone. "The police stormed Noureddine Bhiri's house, assaulted his wife, and arrested him," Dilou told Reuters. Authorities also raided the house of Mosaique FM head Noureddine Boutar, whose radio…
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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
South Africa bus crash kills 20, dozens taken to hospital

South Africa bus crash kills 20, dozens taken to hospital

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A head-on collision between a bus and a cash-in-transit van left 20 people dead on a major road in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, with dozens taken to hospital, transport officials and emergency medical company said. After the crash, the bus rolled from a bridge on the N1 freeway into a river below, said ER24, whose paramedics were on the scene. "Three people were found deceased by the roadside and 16 down by the river - all were declared dead on arrival," ER24 said in a statement. "One patient, of the 69 passengers confirmed transported to a hospital for various…
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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
UN rights office seeks to stay put in Uganda after being told to go

UN rights office seeks to stay put in Uganda after being told to go

NEWS
THE UN rights office said it was in discussion with Uganda over how to continue its work in the country after the government said it had to leave, a move activists say highlights the country's deteriorating record on civil liberties. The office was set up in 2006 and has brought to light widespread rights violations by security personnel including torture, illegal detentions and failure by the state to prosecute offenders. Uganda told the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) last week that it would not renew the mandate of its office, effectively expelling the rights monitors. "We…
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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Gabon president proposes cutting presidential mandate to five years

Gabon president proposes cutting presidential mandate to five years

NEWS
GABON President Ali Bongo proposed shortening the presidential mandate from seven to five years as he began consultations to prepare for elections this year and measures to prevent violence. More than two days of deadly unrest followed Gabon's last elections in 2016 after the opposition rejected Ali Bongo's victory and alleged fraud. "On the eve of future general elections, I have today decided to set the term of office for all elections to five years," Bongo said on Monday. The move will require constitutional reform and a vote in parliament. Sixty-four-year-old Bongo has been president of the oil-producing West African…
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Feb
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Cameroon president’s 90th birthday marked by cocktail of woes

Cameroon president’s 90th birthday marked by cocktail of woes

NEWS
AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG EDITH Kah Walla was at the front of a crowd of students that welcomed Cameroon's new president Paul Biya on a tour of the United States in 1984, full of hope that the young leader would bring stability and democracy, and end corruption. Four decades on, Biya, now the world's oldest leader, turns 90 on Monday. When he cuts a large cake, as he usually does on his birthday, Kah Walla, who was one of Biya's challengers in the 2011 presidential election, will not be celebrating. Her support for Biya evaporated over the years as economic progress…
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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
SA power cuts hurts SMME industry

SA power cuts hurts SMME industry

NEWS
THREE of South Africa's top four lenders have warned that hours of daily power cuts could hurt small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are considered the backbone of the nation's economy. SMEs in Africa's most industrialised nation represent more than 98% of its businesses and employ more than half of its workforce, according to a McKinsey study. Issues affecting this sector could in turn further hurt the gross domestic product, which shrank a greater-than-expected 1.3% in the final three months of last year. State-utility Eskom implements daily power cuts, called load-shedding, in stages with Stage 1 being the lowest. At…
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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Time is Money: Africa’s luxury watch market ticks all the boxes for growth

Time is Money: Africa’s luxury watch market ticks all the boxes for growth

NEWS
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY FROM "no rush" to "time is precious", a new crop of African middle-class buyers is splurging on luxury timepieces due to the growing global profile of high-end watches, both as a status symbol and a profitable investment. Be it South Africa, Kenya, Egypt or Morocco, cash-flush consumers are increasingly buying prized timepieces, with high-end watch brands such as Rolex seeing a surge in sales. This comes on the back of the collapse of the global crypto market, which many Africans had begun to view as a viable investment option but which monied Africans are now…
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