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Mar
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Morocco’s tiff with Germany

Morocco’s tiff with Germany

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MOROCCO has told government departments to cease cooperation and contacts with Germany's embassy in the North African kingdom due in part to Berlin's stance over Western Sahara, a senior Moroccan diplomat said yesterday. A foreign ministry document, seen by Reuters, cited "deep disagreements" in asking all ministries and government bodies to abstain from any contact with the embassy and German aid and political organisations, without offering further details. The senior diplomat cited Germany's reaction to the U.S. decision in December to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, as well as its decision not to invite Morocco to an international meeting…
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Mar
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Measures for DRC, Guinea travellers

Measures for DRC, Guinea travellers

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DAVID SHEPARDSON THE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will impose new public health requirements for U.S. visitors who have recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or Guinea because of concerns about Ebola, the agency said on Monday. Starting this week, the U.S. government will require travelers from DRC and Guinea to fly into six U.S. airports. Airlines will collect and transmit passenger information to the CDC for public health follow-up for all passengers boarding a flight to the United States who were in DRC or Guinea within the previous 21 days. Recently, less than…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Date set for Zuma’s Constitutional Court hearing

Date set for Zuma’s Constitutional Court hearing

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africa’s highest court - the Constitutional Court - will hear the case against the country’s former president Jacob Zuma on March 25. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who chairs the judicial commission into state capture, theft and corruption, approached the Constitutional Court on an urgent basis, to convict Zuma of contempt and impose a two year prison sentence on him. The Constitutional Court yesterday issued directions in terms of which Zuma has until March 8 to file a response to the case made by the Zondo Commission.  The commission approached the court after Zuma ignored its…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Sex scandal: Zim vice president quits

Sex scandal: Zim vice president quits

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A sex scandal - allegedly involving several women - has brought down one of Ziimbabwe’s powerful politicians. Zimbabwe’s vice president Kembo Mohadi resigned yesterday following the emergence of the sensational allegations, some of them including married women. In his resignation letter, Mohadi said he was stepping down from his powerful job to deal with his problems and to avoid compromising the office of the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa as well as the government. Mohadi (70) said he was a victim of distortion, voice cloning, sponsored spooking and political sabotage. “I have been through a soul searching…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Kidnappers free 279 Nigerian schoolgirls

Kidnappers free 279 Nigerian schoolgirls

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NIGERIA's President Muhammadu Buhari said he felt "overwhelming joy" over the news that kidnappers had released hundreds of schoolgirls in northwest Zamfara state unharmed. Earlier on today, state officials said gunmen had freed all 279 girls kidnapped from the Government Girls Science Secondary (GGSS) School in the town of Jangebe. In a Tweet, Buhari said he was "pleased that their ordeal has come to a happy end without any incident".  According to earlier reports, 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary (GGSS) School in the town of Jangebe were abducted by an armed gang at around 1 a.m. on…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
WTO chief hits the ground running

WTO chief hits the ground running

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EMMA FARGE and PHILIP BLENKINSOP THE new chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has urged its member states to work with pharmaceutical companies to license more COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in developing countries in order to triple global production. "People are dying in poor countries," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on her first day in office. "The world has a normal capacity of production of 3.5 billion doses of vaccines and we now seek to manufacture 10 billion doses." Her call comes as a group of developing countries led by South Africa and India seek to waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill 9 civilians in Mali

Suspected Islamists kill 9 civilians in Mali

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SUSPECTED Islamist militants riding 4x4 vehicles and armed with machine guns killed nine civilians in attacks on three villages in central Mali, local officials said. Two different sets of assailants struck the ethnic Dogon villages of Gorey, Simikanda and Djamnati in Mali's Mopti region, which has been ravaged in recent years by Islamist and inter-ethnic violence, the officials said. Moulaye Guindo, the mayor of Bankass, which is near Gorey and Simikanda, blamed the attacks on the same militants who killed eight people in attacks on a Malian military post and a gendarme base last Thursday. Islamist groups linked to al…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt offers relief to gig workers

Egypt offers relief to gig workers

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MENNA A. FAROUK EGYPT will start registering millions of gig workers in order to offer them health insurance and emergency state aid during the coronavirus pandemic, which has taken a particularly heavy toll on the nation's ad-hoc employees, officials said. There are at least 14 million gig workers in Egypt, and while some workers and campaigners welcomed the government's drive, others warned that many workers could be reluctant to sign up - fearing tax and social security payment demands. The government said it plans to identify and support 2 million gig workers in the country of 100 million people by…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Special land court for SA

Special land court for SA

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SOUTH Africa's government has unveiled plans for a special court to expedite the return of land taken from black people under apartheid by handling disputes that have held up the highly sensitive process. Two decades since the end of white minority rule, large swathes of private land is still under white ownership and redistribution efforts have often ended up in court, with thousands of land claims remaining unresolved. The proposed Land Court will have the same level of power as the High Court with permanent judges and will also look into conflict resolution and mediation, the justice ministry said, making…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Refugees’ frustration drives renewed Western Sahara conflict

Refugees’ frustration drives renewed Western Sahara conflict

NEWS
GENERATIONS of young Sahrawis have grown up in Algeria's remote desert refugee camps largely forgotten by the outside world and now see no prospect of an independent homeland in Western Sahara except through a new war their leaders say has already begun. Their fears that the quest for statehood had become a lost cause grew when U.S. administration of former president Donald Trump recognised Morocco's claims to the vast, sparsely populated territory in December. "We have not received any peaceful results," said Brahim, a Sahrawi man taking part in a recent parade by the group's Polisario Front independence movement in…
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