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Jul
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Gambia VP tests positive for coronavirus, president self-isolating

Gambia VP tests positive for coronavirus, president self-isolating

NEWS
Gambia's Vice President Isatou Touray has tested positive for COVID-19, leading President Adama Barrow to enter self-isolation for the next two weeks, the presidency said on Wednesday. The presidency's statement did not provide any further details about Touray's condition. Touray, who is 65, was named vice president last year. The Gambia, mainland Africa's smallest country, has recorded 326 cases of COVID-19, including nine deaths, the lowest totals in West Africa. - Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Jul
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenyan police arrest fugitive indicted in U.S. for ivory, rhino horn trafficking

Kenyan police arrest fugitive indicted in U.S. for ivory, rhino horn trafficking

NEWS
JOSEPH AKWIRI KENYAN police arrested a fugitive wanted in the United States on charges of trafficking ivory and rhino horn, who arrived in the coastal city of Mombasa from Yemen, authorities have announced. Abubakar Mansur Mohammed Surur was detained for alleged "ivory-related offences" after he landed in a chartered plane, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said on Twitter. In a June 2019 indictment, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration charged Surur and three others with conspiracy to traffic at least 190 kilograms of rhino horn and 10 tonnes of ivory worth more than $7 million. Surur was also charged with conspiracy…
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Jul
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s Sisi approves restrictions on retired army officers standing for election

Egypt’s Sisi approves restrictions on retired army officers standing for election

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EGYPTIAN  President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has approved legal amendments that restrict retired army officers from running in elections without permission from the military, according to an announcement in the official gazette on Wednesday. Critics of Sisi, a former army chief who was re-elected for a second term in 2018, say the amendments, passed by parliament this month, aim to curb any opposition from prominent former army generals. The government denies this. The amendments bolster the role of the army by allowing it to offer an opinion on proposed constitutional amendments and bills related to political rights, elections and national security, according…
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Jul
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast election body promises fair October vote

Ivory Coast election body promises fair October vote

NEWS
IVORY COAST's electoral commission has promised a fair election as the ruling RHDP party prepared to ask President Alassane Ouattara to stand again, defying opponents who say he does not have the right to a third term under the constitution. The election is seen as the greatest test yet of the tenuous stability achieved since a brief civil war killed about 3,000 in 2010 and 2011. The election commission's role is particularly sensitive. A dispute over Ouattara's 2010 poll victory sparked the post-election conflict and opposition parties have raised concern this time about the independence of local election offices, which…
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Jul
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Director-General suspended over inflated funeral costs

Director-General suspended over inflated funeral costs

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A top South African civil servant in charge of a multibillion rand budget has been suspended for his role in blown-up state funeral costs. Public Works Director-General Sam Vukela was suspended after being implicated  in fraudulent contracts and irregular payments of high profile funerals of: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the struggle stalwart and ex-wife of the great Nelson Mandela. Dr Zola Skweyiya, former cabinet minister and liberation struggle veteran.Ambassador Billy Modise, retired head of state protocol and also a struggle veteran. The three funerals cost the state R76-million. Patricia de Lille, the Minister of Public Works, was granted special powers…
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Jul
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Seven babies stillborn in one night at Zimbabwe hospital as nurses strike

Seven babies stillborn in one night at Zimbabwe hospital as nurses strike

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SEVEN babies were stillborn in one night at a major Zimbabwean hospital this week because their mothers did not get adequate medical care due to a nurses' strike, doctors said, as a dispute over working conditions cripples hospitals. Nurses went on strike countrywide last month demanding U.S. dollar salaries, which the government says it cannot afford. That has left government hospitals with skeleton staff and doctors and senior nurses stretched at a time when the country is grappling with rising COVID-19 cases. Out of eight pregnant women who underwent caesarean sections on Monday night at Sally Mugabe Hospital, the biggest…
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Jul
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Renew the ANC in honour of liberation hero – Mbeki

Renew the ANC in honour of liberation hero – Mbeki

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FORMER South African president Thabo Mbeki has made a passionate plea for the renewal of the ANC as a tribute to the political stalwart and hero Andrew Mlangeni, who was buried today. In a virtual tribute delivered to mourners at Mlangeni’s funeral, held in Soweto, Mbeki supported the calls for a consultative conference to deal with the challenges facing the ANC and to assist the party to grapple with its role as a governing party. Mlangeni, who passed away a week ago after a short illness, was buried at the Roodepoort Cemetery in Soweto, following a dignified…
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Jul
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Zimbabwe minister Shiri, who helped plot Mugabe ouster, dies at 65

Zimbabwe minister Shiri, who helped plot Mugabe ouster, dies at 65

NEWS
ZIMBABWE's agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, a retired general who helped plot the ouster of Robert Mugabe in a 2017 coup, has died, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced. Shiri, who commanded the air force for 25 years until he joined the government in 2017, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday, two government sources said. He died in the early hours of Wednesday. "Shiri was a true patriot, who devoted his life to the liberation, independence and service of his country," Mnangagwa said in a statement. He did not say how Shiri died. But domestic media said Shiri, 65, succumbed to complications…
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Jul
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali’s opposition rejects West African leaders’ plan to end deadlock

Mali’s opposition rejects West African leaders’ plan to end deadlock

NEWS
TIEMOKO DIALLO MALI's opposition coalition on Tuesday formally rejected a plan proposed by West African leaders for ending a political crisis, raising the prospect of more mass anti-government demonstrations in the coming weeks. Tens of thousands of people answered opposition calls for protests in early June over contested local elections, perceived government corruption and incompetence. Police killings of protesters further inflamed anger against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who the opposition insists should resign. Heads of state of members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) proposed on Monday that the members of parliament whose elections were contested should…
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Jul
29
2020
By The African Mirror
US admits to air strike in Somalia killed one civilian

US admits to air strike in Somalia killed one civilian

NEWS
THE United States has revealed that one civilian was killed and three were injured in a U.S. air strike in Somalia in February, the second such admission since it launched quarterly reports on civilian casualties in its Africa operations. In a report, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said verification of the facts and circumstances about a February 2 air strike triggered by allegations of civilian deaths established one civilian had been killed while three were injured. "Unfortunately, we believe our operations caused the inadvertent death of one person and injury to three others who we did not intend to target," AFRICOM's…
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