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Nov
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Anti-Rwanda protests break out in east DRC

Anti-Rwanda protests break out in east DRC

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THOUSANDS joined anti-Rwanda protests in the east Congolese city of Goma on Monday, denouncing Rwanda's alleged support of M23 rebels as Kinshasa recalled its interim acting ambassador from Kigali in a further souring of relations. Rwanda denies Congo's long-standing accusations that it backs the M23, a Tutsi-led rebel group that has attacked Congolese forces near the Rwandan border since 2012. Tensions escalated this month after the group launched a new offensive in North Kivu province and captured the strategic town of Kiwanja on Saturday, prompting Congolese authorities to expel the Rwandan ambassador. Congo's foreign ministry went further on Monday, recalling the…
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Oct
21
2022
By The African Mirror
Central African Republic’s top court head refuses to retire

Central African Republic’s top court head refuses to retire

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JUDICAEL YONGO THE head of the Central African Republic's top court, which has stymied a push to enable President Faustin-Archange Touadera to keep running for office, has defied a government order to retire. The Constitutional Court last month annulled a commission for proposed reforms that would let Touadera, 65, stand for a third presidential poll in line with a trend in some parts of Africa that opponents see as a creeping autocracy. The already twice-elected Touadera's government earlier this month issued a decree telling 28 higher education officials born between 1946 and 1955 to retire on December 31. On that list was Constitutional Court…
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Nov
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Somalia car bombings death toll rises to 120

Somalia car bombings death toll rises to 120

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THE number of people killed by two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has risen to at least 120 people, the health minister said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for Saturday's blasts, Somalia's deadliest since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at the same location five years ago. The first of the explosions hit the education ministry at around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The second hit minutes later as ambulances arrived and people gathered to help the victims. Health minister Ali Haji Aden said the death toll stood at…
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Oct
21
2022
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s flooding spreads to the Delta, upending lives and livelihoods

Nigeria’s flooding spreads to the Delta, upending lives and livelihoods

NEWS
ANGELA UKOMADU PEOPLE wade through fast-flowing water, holding one another to avoid being swept away, balancing suitcases, clothing and food on their heads. The torrent was, until recently, the East-West Road in Nigeria's Rivers state, the gateway to the nation's oil and gas. Now parts of Rivers, along with large swathes of 32 other states, are inundated by the worst flooding in 12 years. "We cannot access Ahoada West anymore," local government chairman Hope Ikiriko said of the area he represents. He said 30 boats were helping to move people to camps built to accommodate the area's 150,000 displaced. "We…
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Nov
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Malawi cholera death toll rises to 180

Malawi cholera death toll rises to 180

NEWS
THE death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi accelerated to 180 from 110 in October, the minister of health said, raising the likelihood that the situation could worsen. The first case of the debilitating infection, which spreads mainly through contaminated food and water, was reported in March in the southern district of Machinga. The case fatality rate has risen to 3% from 2.8% recorded at the start of October, Malawi's health minister Khumbize Chiponda said in a statement, adding that the total number of infections since the start of the outbreak stood at 5,939. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Oct
21
2022
By The African Mirror
WHO’s Tedros says narrow window to ‘prevent genocide’ in Ethiopia

WHO’s Tedros says narrow window to ‘prevent genocide’ in Ethiopia

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WORLD Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there was a "very narrow window now to prevent genocide" in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. Tedros, who previously served as Ethiopia's health minister and foreign affairs minister, has been sharply critical of Ethiopian authorities throughout the two-year war. The government has, in turn, accused him of trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for rebel forces - charges he has denied. In his sharpest comments on the war yet, Tedros told reporters in Geneva that food and healthcare were being used as weapons of war in Tigray, which…
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Nov
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Explainer: Why are West and Central Africa’s floods so devastating this year?

Explainer: Why are West and Central Africa’s floods so devastating this year?

NEWS
ALESSANDRA PRENTICE UNUSUALLY intense seasonal rains have drenched swathes of West and Central Africa since June, unleashing deadly floods that have affected millions and submerged farmland in 19 countries. Below are factors that are making the floods worse and data on the scale of their impact. WHERE IS THE WATER COMING FROM? Most years, West and Central Africa see floods of varying severity between June and September when seasonal rains sweep through the Sahel belt of countries along the southern fringes of the Sahara desert. This season, a La Niña weather pattern caused above-average rainfall in parts of the region…
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Nov
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Sunset for Africa’s 2G and 3G networks looming

Sunset for Africa’s 2G and 3G networks looming

NEWS
CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY AFRICAN countries have begun retiring legacy networks - 2G and 3G - as the continent’s burgeoning digital economy raises the demand for faster and more efficient internet connectivity. Spectrum auctions, mobile financing arrangements and the mass roll-out of 5G networks are all seen accelerating the shift to high-speed networks across key markets on the continent. South Africa, Seychelles, Botswana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria and Zimbabwe have rolled out commercial 5G services over the last two years. “Many operators and governments are determining that the older 2G and 3G technologies as well as the spectrum allocated to…
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Oct
22
2022
By The African Mirror
Somalia signs oil exploration agreement for seven blocks

Somalia signs oil exploration agreement for seven blocks

NEWS
SOMALIA has signed a petroleum exploration agreement for seven offshore blocks with United States-based Coastline Exploration, the company said in a statement. Hydrocarbon discoveries in Uganda and Kenya and huge gas finds in Mozambique and Tanzania have stoked investor interest in other parts of East Africa's hydrocarbon potential. Somali National News Agency quoted petroleum minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed saying late on Thursday the agreement signed with Coastline was the finalisation of an earlier deal signed in February, without giving further details. No government officials were immediately reachable for comment. Coastline, an upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa,…
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Oct
22
2022
By The African Mirror
Nigeria appeals court decision to free separatist leader Kanu

Nigeria appeals court decision to free separatist leader Kanu

NEWS
THE Nigerian government has approached the Supreme Court to overturn a Court of Appeal ruling that freed separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and dropped terrorism charges against him. Last week the appeal court ordered that Kanu be discharged, saying the government did not follow due process in his extradition to Nigeria from Kenya and that the federal court did not have jurisdiction to try the case. The government had been considering what steps to take after the appeal court ruling.  On Friday, government lawyers said the state had appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the appeal court did not consider the…
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