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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
History-making Tanzanian 1st female president sworn in

History-making Tanzanian 1st female president sworn in

NEWS
HISTORY was made in Tanzania and East Africa today when Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as the country’s first female president.  Hassan succeeded John Magufuli, who died two days ago. Hassan is regarded as a consensus-builder, a trait that may prove an asset in dealing with the various factions within the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party and security agencies following the announcement of Magufuli's death. "I don't speak in a forceful voice, like others," she told a BBC Swahili interview last year. "But to speak with someone in a way that they understand you, it's not necessary to…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Botswana secures SA help for prosecution

Botswana secures SA help for prosecution

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER BOTSWANA has enlisted the help of some of South Africa’s top legal minds to assist in the prosecution of that country’s former leading intelligence official, Welheminah Mphoeng Maswabi. AfriForum, a civil society organisation, yesterday announced that its private prosecutions unit has been asked to assist with pre-trial proceedings of Maswabi.  Advocate Gerrie Nel, a former top prosecutor in SA’s National Prosecuting Authority will head the teams that consist of Advocate Phyllis Vorster (prosecutor) and Andrew Leask, chief investigator at the unit, to deal with the pre-trial proceedings in that country’s prosecution of Welheminah Mphoeng Maswabi. According to…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Africa lags on gender parity in politics

Africa lags on gender parity in politics

NEWS
NITA BHALLA AFRICA has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics by 2030, according to an European think tank. The study by Sweden's International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) found that women occupied 24% of Africa's 12,113 parliamentary seats in the upper and lower houses in 2020 - up from 9% in 2000. But progress was slow, it said, with women facing a barrage of challenges underpinned by entrenched sexism, be it a dearth of opportunity, lack of economic support or outright prejudice.…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
SA President’s warm tribute to Zulu King

SA President’s warm tribute to Zulu King

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African President has paid a tribute to the late monarch of the Amazulu nation, King Goodwill Zwelithini as a staunchest defender of his people who advanced their culture, their customs, their traditions and a deep sense of identity and nationhood. Delivering the official eulogy at a memorial service held hours after the King’s burial, Ramaphosa said the Amazulu monarch was celebrated across our beloved continent Africa because he valued diversity and respected the cultures of other kingdoms and nations. The President said King Zwelithini played a significant role in South Africa’s road to democracy, particularly during…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
U.N. agrees to joint Tigray inquiry

U.N. agrees to joint Tigray inquiry

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MICHELLE NICHOLS UNITED Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has agreed to an Ethiopian request for a joint investigation in the country's northern Tigray region, where Bachelet says possible war crimes may have been committed. Fighting between government troops and the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in the mountainous region of about 5 million. The United Nations has raised concerns about atrocities being committed in Tigray, while U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has described acts carried out in the region as…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Morocco’s bill to legalise cannabis divides growers

Morocco’s bill to legalise cannabis divides growers

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AHMED ELJECHTIMI IN Morocco's impoverished Rif mountains, cannabis grower Mohamed El Mourabit hopes a plan to legalise the drug for some uses will raze what he calls a "wall of fear" surrounding farmers caught between poverty, traffickers and the law. The government last week approved a law to allow the cultivation, export and use of cannabis for medicine or industry. Parliament looks likely to ratify it, despite the issue dividing the governing coalition's biggest party. The change is meant to improve the lot of farmers in the often restive Rif region where it has been grown for decades, and to…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Mauritian’s underwater protest

Mauritian’s underwater protest

NEWS
CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE IN a remote stretch of the western Indian Ocean, a 24-year-old Mauritian marine scientist donned a snorkel and dived below the choppy waves to float in protest above the world's largest seagrass meadow. Holding a placard reading 'Youth Strike for Climate,' Shaama Sandooyea held her breath and hoped the images from her action would help spark more aggressive global action to fight climate change. The vast stretch of seagrass at the Saya de Malha Bank has become a priority for conservation partly for its role in absorbing climate-warming carbon dioxide. Elsewhere, the world is losing some…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Victory for Kenyan women – ban on FMG stays

Victory for Kenyan women – ban on FMG stays

NEWS
KENYA’S high court has upheld a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in a landmark ruling welcomed by campaigners seeking to eradicate the internationally condemned procedure. Kenya criminalised FGM in 2011 with a punishment of three years imprisonment and a $2,000 fine, but the practice persists because some communities regard it as necessary for social acceptance and increasing their daughters' marriage prospects. An estimated 200 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to FGM, which usually involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia. The ritual is practised in at least 27 African countries and parts of…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Police to blame for death of girl after 2017 elections’

‘Police to blame for death of girl after 2017 elections’

NEWS
A Kenyan inquest has ruled that police are to blame for the death of a 9-year-old girl during violence after the 2017 elections, saying that if the police wanted to find the girl's killer, who remains at large, they could do so in a day. The death of Stephanie Moraa, and that of a six-month-old baby killed in post-election violence in western Kenya, became a flashpoint for public anger over police brutality. It also put a spotlight on what critics say are inadequate government efforts to prosecute officers who commit crimes. Kenyan police frequently face accusations of brutality and extrajudicial…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
As Algerian protests resume

As Algerian protests resume

NEWS
HAMID OULD AHMED ABDENOUR Ait Said and Mohamed Chabti both helped topple Algeria's veteran president nearly two years ago by taking part in mass street demonstrations against the ruling elite but they no longer agree on the protests. The protest movement, known as 'Hirak', brought tens of thousands of people to the streets each week for more than a year until the global pandemic hit Algeria in early 2020, forcing them to stop. Now, as the demonstrations resume with thousands of people pressing once again for more comprehensive change, Ait Said and Chabti have taken different paths that reflect a…
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