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Mar
03
2023
By The African Mirror
S.Africa’s MultiChoice and Comcast to create Africa-wide streaming service

S.Africa’s MultiChoice and Comcast to create Africa-wide streaming service

NEWS
AFRICA'S biggest pay-TV company, MultiChoice Group, said it had entered into an agreement with U.S.-based media conglomerate Comcast to create a pan-Africa video streaming platform. The new streaming service, which will be built on MultiChoice's streaming platform Showmax, will be 70% owned by the company, it said. The remaining 30% will be owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal, it added. While MultiChoice has the biggest market share in pay TV in Africa, it has been struggling to penetrate deeper with Showmax due to competition from Netflix, Amazon's streaming service and Disney. With the streaming companies now training their guns on sports rights in Africa,…
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Feb
06
2023
By The African Mirror
SA POWER OUTAGES: Robberies surge as criminals take advantage

SA POWER OUTAGES: Robberies surge as criminals take advantage

NEWS
THE acute energy crisis in South Africa has adversely affected all aspects of society. Regular and lengthy power outages – which started in 2007 are also contributing to an escalation in the levels of criminal activity, especially street crime. The most recent quarterly crime statistics – have undermined an ailing economy and food security, as well as health and educational outcomes. Author GUY LAMB, Criminologist / Lecturer, Stellenbosch University It has become evident that power cuts added to a significant increase in all robbery categories – for July to September 2022 – compared to the same period in 2021. This…
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Feb
07
2023
By The African Mirror
South African peacekeeper killed in DRC after U.N. chopper comes under fire

South African peacekeeper killed in DRC after U.N. chopper comes under fire

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ONE U.N. peacekeeper from South Africa was killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo when a helicopter operated by the peacekeeping force came under fire while in mid-air, the U.N. mission in Congo and South Africa's military said. The helicopter came under fire after taking off from the city of Beni in the early afternoon. Another South African peacekeeper was also wounded in the attack but could continue flying and landed safely at the airport of the provincial capital Goma, the South African National Defence Force said in a statement. Neither South Africa nor the U.N. mission called MONUSCO…
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Mar
03
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s Obi says he, not Tinubu, won presidential election

Nigeria’s Obi says he, not Tinubu, won presidential election

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CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIAN presidential candidate Peter Obi said he had won Saturday's election, called Bola Tinubu's victory fraudulent and promised to claim the top job through legal means. Tinubu, the ruling party candidate, was declared president-elect of Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday, having won 37% of the vote. He said the election was credible and the reported problems had had no impact on the overall outcome. The main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, received 29% of the vote, while Obi, an outsider popular with young and educated urban voters, got 25%, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). "Let me assure…
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Feb
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s MNT-Halan ends Africa’s unicorn drought with a massive $400M funding haul

Egypt’s MNT-Halan ends Africa’s unicorn drought with a massive $400M funding haul

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SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY FINTECH startup MNT-Halan raked in an impressive US$400 million in a hybrid equity-debt financing round, propelling its post-money valuation to much-coveted billion-dollar unicorn status. Africa’s unicorn landscape had remained fallow since Nigeria's Chipper Cash achieved a similar feat in November 2021, through a Series C extension led by FTX and totalling US$150 million. MNT-Halan’s feat entrenches Egypt in the elite club of African states with unicorns, boosted by growing investor confidence in the land of Pharaohs. But it has not come as a surprise. In 2021, Egypt topped the list as the most robust market…
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Feb
06
2023
By The African Mirror
East African regional leaders demand ceasefire in eastern Congo

East African regional leaders demand ceasefire in eastern Congo

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CLEMENT MANIRABARUSHA EAST African regional leaders on Saturday renewed their call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that pits the country's military against a rebel group it has accused Rwanda of supporting. At a summit in Burundi's capital Bujumbura, the leaders of the regional East African Community (EAC) bloc called for an "immediate ceasefire by all parties," according to a communique issued at the end of the meeting. The M23 rebel group has seized large areas of eastern Congo's North Kivu province in a rapid onslaught since October 20…
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Feb
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Protect, advance women for a better South Sudan, pope says

Protect, advance women for a better South Sudan, pope says

NEWS
PHILIP PULLELLA POPE Francis joined other Christian leaders and the U.N. in urging the protection and advancement of women in South Sudan, where rape has been a weapon of war, child brides are common and most girls do not reach secondary education. The rights of girls and women was a recurring theme on the penultimate day of the pope's visit to South Sudan, an unprecedented joint "pilgrimage of peace" with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Church of Scotland Moderator Iain Greenshields. "Please, protect, respect, appreciate and honour every woman, every girl, young woman, mother and grandmother. Otherwise, there will…
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Feb
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Ethiopian PM meets Tigray region leaders for first time since peace deal

Ethiopian PM meets Tigray region leaders for first time since peace deal

NEWS
ETHIOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met senior leaders of the Tigray region forces for the first time since they signed a peace deal with the national government ending two years of war, the state-run broadcaster said. "PM Abiy ... and other officials met today and held a discussion with the TPLF delegation regarding the progress of the peace process," the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said on its Twitter account. "As a result, PM Abiy passed decisions about increasing flights, banking and other issues that would boost trust and ease the lives of civilians." The Addis Ababa government and forces of the…
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Feb
04
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya: Police officers jailed for lawyer’s murder

Kenya: Police officers jailed for lawyer’s murder

NEWS
HUMPHREY MALALO A Kenyan court sentenced three police officers and their civilian informant to decades in prison for the 2016 murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others. The case triggered outrage in Kenya, where police face frequent allegations of brutality and extrajudicial killings but are almost never charged. Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and their driver, Joseph Muiruri, were killed shortly after filing a complaint of police brutality, alleging that Mwendwa had been shot and wounded by police. Their bodies were later recovered from a river outside the capital Nairobi. The four defendants were convicted of murder last year.…
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Feb
03
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in London court

Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in London court

NEWS
MORE than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court, the latest step in a case that will test whether multinationals can be held to account for the actions of overseas subsidiaries. In 2021, the UK Supreme Court allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Shell in the English courts after years of oil spills had contaminated land and groundwater. The judges said at the time there was an arguable case that Shell, one of the world's biggest energy companies, was responsible because it exercised significant control over…
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