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Dec
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Uganda caught in US-Israel phone hacking scandal

Uganda caught in US-Israel phone hacking scandal

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APPLE Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter. The hacks, which took place in the last several months, hit U.S. officials either based in Uganda or focused on matters concerning the East African country, two of the sources said. The intrusions, first reported here, represent the widest known hacks of U.S. officials through NSO technology. Previously, a list of numbers with potential targets including some American officials surfaced in reporting on NSO, but it…
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Dec
05
2021
By The African Mirror
How Niger’s foreign-funded army derail its anti-jihadist fight

How Niger’s foreign-funded army derail its anti-jihadist fight

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NIGER'S foreign donors have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on training and supporting its security services over the past five years as they seek to contain a growing jihadist insurgency linked to a franchise of the so-called Islamic State. Authors GIACOMO ZANDONINI, TOMAS STATIUS and MOUSSA AKSAR But the mostly European donors have failed to put in place strong programmes to prevent rights abuses by the army, and haven’t held the Nigerien authorities to account for the alleged deaths and disappearances of hundreds of civilians rounded up during anti-jihadist operations, local rights groups, aid officials, and foreign diplomats told…
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Dec
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Changes at DRC state mining company

Changes at DRC state mining company

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DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has announced a high-level shake-up at state mining company Gecamines, replacing board chairman Albert Yuma, a close ally of Tshisekedi's predecessor. Albert Yuma. Picture: Wikimedia Commons After coming to power in 2019, Tshisekedi re-appointed Yuma but named his own loyalists to senior positions in a bid to assert more control over Gecamines, which has minority stakes in most of Congo's largest copper and cobalt projects. Under Yuma's leadership, the company faced repeated allegations from local and international watchdogs that its money was used to fund then-President Joseph Kabila's political interests. Yuma and Kabila…
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Dec
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Militants kill at least 31 in central Mali, say local authorities

Militants kill at least 31 in central Mali, say local authorities

NEWS
MILITANTS killed at least 31 people in central Mali on Friday when they fired upon a bus ferrying people to a local market, local authorities said - the latest deadly attack in a region racked by violent insurgency. The bus was attacked by unidentified gunmen as it travelled its twice-weekly route from the village of Songho to a market in Bandiagara, 10 kilometres (6 miles) away, said Moulaye Guindo, mayor of the nearby town of Bankass. "Armed men ... shot at the vehicle, slashed the tires, and shot at the people," Guindo said. He and another local official, who spoke…
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Dec
04
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Diplomats brought Omicron from Europe’

‘Diplomats brought Omicron from Europe’

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BOTSWANA’S President Mokgweetsi Masisi said some of the four diplomats who first tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country had come from Europe, calling for a reversal of widespread travel bans imposed against southern African countries. Omicron dubbed a variant of concern by the World Health Organization, has prompted many governments to impose curbs on travel from southern Africa and to take other measures to contain it. While it is still not established where Omicron first emerged, on November 25 South Africa, followed by Botswana a day later, announced they had detected a new variant whose mutations…
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Dec
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Louis Vuitton designer Virgil Abloh’s charisma extended beyond luxury

Louis Vuitton designer Virgil Abloh’s charisma extended beyond luxury

NEWS
MIMOSA SPENCER IT was a "kid in a candy store" moment for Billie Essco when he found himself in a cavernous space beneath the Louvre Museum in January last year, backstage before a show for fashion designer Virgil Abloh's luxury streetwear label Off-White. Essco, a 31-year-old Black American artist, musician and clothing designer from Buffalo, New York had made a last-minute decision to join his friend, rapper Westside Gunn, on a trip to Paris with hopes of sneaking into a show during Fashion Week. He never would have dreamt of hanging out with Abloh, who besides being the founder of…
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Dec
04
2021
By The African Mirror
U.N. worker killed in Mali

U.N. worker killed in Mali

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UNIDENTIFIED armed men attacked a convoy belonging to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali on Friday, killing one civilian worker and wounding another, the mission said. The convoy was travelling from the northern city of Kidal to Gao and came under fire about 100 km (62 miles) northeast of the town of Bourem, the mission said in a statement on Twitter. Armed attacks by Islamist militants and other groups are common across vast swathes of Mali, despite a heavy presence of international troops. The U.N. mission MINUSMA has deployed about 13,000 troops to try to contain the violence. MINUSMA…
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Dec
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Floods wreak havoc in South Sudan

Floods wreak havoc in South Sudan

NEWS
DENIS DUMO SEVERE flooding has hit South Sudan's northern state of Unity, cutting off communities from accessing supplies of food and other vital commodities, a state official said on Friday. More than 700,000 people have been affected by the worst flooding in the country for nearly 60 years, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in October, blaming climate change. In Unity, which borders Sudan, the floods have left a trail of food shortages, caused malnutrition in children and increased the spread of diseases such as malaria, said Lam Tungwar Kueigwong, the state's minister of land, housing and public utilities. Oil…
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Aug
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Africa’s race for the future of money heats up

Africa’s race for the future of money heats up

NEWS
CONRAD ONYANGO AFRICA’S appetite for digital currencies is growing significantly. Private cryptocurrency providers are also increasing on the continent and even central banks are making sure they are not left behind, by exploring better ways to create and own virtual money, inside secure ecosystems. A number of African countries are looking to launch their own virtual money, backed and issued by central banks, as appetite for digital currency grows exponentially across the continent. A Central Bank Digital Currency tracker from US think-tank, Atlantic Council, shows six African countries are among 81 countries in the race to revolutionize global finance. The…
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Aug
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Rhino poaching returns to after COVID-19 lull

Rhino poaching returns to after COVID-19 lull

NEWS
RHINO poaching in South Africa rose by 50% in the first half of 2021 compared to a year earlier when poaching plummeted due to COVID-19 restrictions, according to the environment ministry. From January to the end of June 2021, 249 rhinos were poached in Africa's most industrialised economy, home to the largest white rhino population in the world, compared with 166 during the same period in 2020. "While this is higher than the number of rhino killed for their horns in the same period last year, at 166, it is less than the 318 rhino that were poached in the…
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