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Nov
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Guinea stadium massacre: Survivors recount horrors as trial unfolds

Guinea stadium massacre: Survivors recount horrors as trial unfolds

NEWS
SOULEYMANE CAMARA SURVIVORS who were beaten and raped during a massacre in a stadium in Guinea in 2009 are hoping to finally see justice and let the world know the pain they have been carrying as the trial of 11 suspects unfolds in the West African nation. More than 150 people were trampled, clubbed or shot dead on September 28, 2009, when a demonstration against Guinea's then-military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara was brutally repressed. Hundreds survived with injuries and trauma. The long-awaited trial opened on the massacre's 13th anniversary. Among the accused is Camara. He is yet to plead but had previously denied responsibility.…
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Oct
17
2022
By The African Mirror
African Union chair calls for Ethiopia truce, peace talks

African Union chair calls for Ethiopia truce, peace talks

NEWS
THE chair of the African Union called for an immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia's Tigray region and urged parties in the two-year-old conflict there to agree to direct peace talks. Moussa Faki said he was following reports of escalating violence in Tigray with grave concern. "The chairperson strongly calls for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and the resumption of humanitarian services," the AU said in a statement. AU-led peace talks proposed earlier this month were delayed for logistical reasons. Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the Tigray forces, called the AU statement welcome if overdue "in light of the extremely alarming humanitarian crisis unfolding as…
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Nov
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Russia to ship food and fuel to Mali

Russia to ship food and fuel to Mali

NEWS
MALI expects Russia to send shipments of fuel, fertiliser and food worth around $100 million to Mali in the coming weeks, the West African country's economy minister, Alousseini Sanou, has said. Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the provision of such supplies with his Malian counterpart in August - a sign of deepening ties as Bamako's relationship soured with its long-time ally and former colonial ruler, France. Speaking on national television from Moscow, Sanou said Russia was going to send 60,000 tonnes of petroleum products, 30,000 tonnes of fertiliser and 25,000 tonnes of wheat. Mali's ruling military junta came to power in a…
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Oct
18
2022
By The African Mirror
The climate victim who became a climate champion

The climate victim who became a climate champion

NEWS
BIRD STORY AGENCY STAFF AS a 10-year-old, Ibrahim Muhammad Shamsuddin and his group of new friends looked on as their community began to lose everything they owned to floods. He watched as the situation around his family's newly-built home turned catastrophic. An unusual weather pattern in Zaria, Kaduna state had resulted in weeks of rain. Then, the raging waters swallowed their home on the shores of River Galma, along with all their household items. “I cannot forget that day we waded through the waters to a refuge centre,” he narrated. Even today, his voice shakes slightly as he tells the…
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Nov
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Kenya deploys troops to DRC

Kenya deploys troops to DRC

NEWS
EDWIN WAITA KENYA'S President William Ruto officially deployed troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join an East African regional force aiming to end decades of bloodshed. The seven countries of the East African Community (EAC), which Congo joined this year, agreed in April to set up a joint force to fight militia groups in Congo's east. The Kenyan troops will join a contingent from Burundi. Despite billions of dollars spent on one of the United Nation's largest peacekeeping forces, more than 120 armed groups continue to operate across large swathes of eastern Congo, including the M23 rebels, which Congo has…
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Nov
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Mane living the dream of millions of Africans

Mane living the dream of millions of Africans

NEWS
MARK GLEESON SADIO Mane is the embodiment of the dreams of millions of young Africans, emerging from a small village in Senegal to play at the highest level in Europe and become an international icon. The diminutive attacker defied his family, who did not want him to play soccer, to sneak away from his home village of Bambali to join an academy in the capital Dakar and then catapult his way into club football. He has gone on to help his country to successive World Cup tournaments, win a first Africa Cup of Nations title and, at club level with…
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Nov
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Uganda: Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 48

Uganda: Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 48

NEWS
THE death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to 48, with 131 confirmed cases, a health official involved in managing the outbreak said. Last week Uganda's health minister put the death toll at 30, with 109 confirmed cases. "Confirmed cases by today 131 and 48 deaths," Henry Kyobe Bosa, Ebola incident commander at Uganda's health ministry, told a briefing organised by the World Health Organization's Africa office. "On the spread and when we are likely to have the outbreak ending I see no experts on this panel can actually predict when it will end," he said, adding authorities…
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Nov
03
2022
By The African Mirror
Suspected al Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya, including paramedics

Suspected al Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya, including paramedics

NEWS
ATTACKERS suspected to be members of Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group have abducted two paramedics, plus a driver and a patient near Kenya's border with Somalia, police said. The attackers ambushed an ambulance belonging to the regional county government of Mandera, north east of the country, as it transported the patient to a hospital in the county. "The .... ambulance (was) en route to Elwak hospital for referral with a patient ... and ... in the company of hospital staff," Mandera's Lafey police station said in a report late on Tuesday. "They were carjacked by suspected AS (al Shabaab)…
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Nov
03
2022
By The African Mirror
Parties to war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region agree to stop fighting

Parties to war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region agree to stop fighting

NEWS
ALEXANDER WINNING and TIM COCKS THE Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands facing famine. Just over a week after formal peace talks mediated by the African Union (AU) began in the South African capital Pretoria, delegates from both sides signed an agreement described by an AU official as a "permanent cessation of hostilities". "The two parties in the Ethiopian conflict have formally agreed to the cessation of hostilities as well as to systematic, orderly, smooth and coordinated disarmament,"…
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Nov
03
2022
By The African Mirror
U.S. targets weapons trafficking with sanctions on Islamic State in Somalia

U.S. targets weapons trafficking with sanctions on Islamic State in Somalia

NEWS
DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS THE United States issued sanctions targeting the Islamic State in Somalia, designating members of the group and others it accused of being involved in a "terrorist weapons trafficking network" in Eastern Africa. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said several of the people designated in Tuesday's action have sold weapons to or were active al Shabaab members. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist group claimed responsibility for two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest blasts since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at…
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