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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
50 nations back U.N. drive to end forced labour

50 nations back U.N. drive to end forced labour

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THE world has reached a "major milestone" in the drive to combat modern slavery after Sudan became the fiftieth country to back a United Nations treaty against forced labour, the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday. The legally binding 2014 pact - a protocol to the 1930 ILO Forced Labour Convention - compels nations to enact measures to prevent forced labour, protect victims and provide compensation. The ILO - with the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) - has led the "50 for Freedom" campaign to encourage governments to ratify the protocol…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt jails activist

Egypt jails activist

NEWS
AN Egyptian court sentenced prominent female activist Sanaa Seif to a year and a half in prison yesterday for spreading false news, her sister and judicial sources said. Seif was detained in June 2019 outside the public prosecutor's office as she tried to file a complaint about the detention conditions of her brother Alaa Abdel Fattah, one of Egypt's best-known activists, their family says. She was also among the activists who had campaigned on social media for the release of some prisoners amid fears that coronavirus would spread in prisons. Three other members of her family were briefly detained in…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian court frees prominent women’s activist

Tunisian court frees prominent women’s activist

NEWS
A Tunisian appeals court yesterday released a prominent women's rights defender and LGBTI activist who had been jailed on charges of "insulting police and abuse of morals", her lawyers said, in a case that raised concerns about freedom of expression. Rania Amdouni, 26, a member of the human rights group Damj, Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality was arrested this month in Tunis, the country's capital. Amdouni had been involved in protests, calling for social and economic justice and against police abuse. "We are happy that Rania was freed today by the appeal court, but our concerns about freedoms continue,…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria unhappy after Italian court acquits Eni and Shell in $1.3-billion corruption case

Nigeria unhappy after Italian court acquits Eni and Shell in $1.3-billion corruption case

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EMILIO PARODI and STEPHEN JEWKES A Milan court acquitted energy company Eni, its chief executive and Royal Dutch Shell yesterday in the oil industry's biggest corruption case revolving around the $1.3 billion acquisition of a Nigerian oilfield a decade ago. The verdict, read out in court by judge Marco Tremolada, came more than three years after the trial first began and after 74 hearings. Tremolada said the companies and defendants had been acquitted as there was no case to answer. The Nigerian government said it was surprised and disappointed by the verdict and would consider whether to appeal once its…
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Mar
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Menzi Ngubane to be buried on Saturday

Menzi Ngubane to be buried on Saturday

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR  REPORTER POPULAR South African actor Menzi Ngubane will be buried on Saturday at his birthplace in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal. The Ngubane have announced that the funeral will be live-streamed on social media platforms for the many fans who will not be able to attend because of COVID-19 restrictions. The Ngubane's stuffered a twin tragedy after his father, 91, died on Tuesday, three days after the actor's death. The Ngubanes are still in shock and are now preparing to a funeral for father and son. Baba Ngubane, who celebrated his 90th with Menzi last year, is suspected to have died…
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Mar
17
2021
By The African Mirror
President of Tanzania John Magufuli dies

President of Tanzania John Magufuli dies

NEWS
TANZANIA’S President John Pombe Magufuli has died. His death was disclosed tonight by Tanzania's Vice President Samia Sulhu Hassan in a special address on state television. Hassan said Magufuli succumbed to a heart disease.  The announcement came days after speculation grew that Magufuli, 61, a vocal COVID-19 sceptic, is ill with the coronavirus, though government officials had claimed that Magufuli was working normally and citizens should ignore rumours from outside the country. Hours before the announcement, Hassan, on a visit, had  said Magufuli had asked her to remind them to maintain peace and develop the region. "...I would like to…
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Mar
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Amazulu King Zwelithini laid to rest

Amazulu King Zwelithini laid to rest

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ACCORDING to African custom, it rains when a king is buried.  The heavens opened up last night as the remains of Amazulu King Goodwill Zwelithini arrived at home and was later interred in a secret and sacred ceremony attended by a select group of men closest to him.  The late King, who ruled over 12-million Amazulu for five decades, was buried at dawn today in an area called “The Valley of Kings”, in KwaNongoma, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, a week after he died from diabetes complication and Covid-19. Thousands of traditionally clad men, members of Amabutho - regiments…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Zulu King’s remains arrive at palace, before burial

Zulu King’s remains arrive at palace, before burial

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A light intermittent drizzle fell on Nongoma, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, as the mortal remains of the King Goodwill Zwelithini, the late leader of South Africa's 12 million Amazulu, arrived at his royal palace ahead of his interment tonight. Thousands of traditionally clad men, members of Amabutho - regiments - and bare-chested maidens, descended on Nongoma to bid farewell King Zwelithini. The majority of the members of Amabutho and the maidens were not wearing masks and not keeping a safe distance, in violation of national COVID-19 restrictions. The shield and spear-wielding men as well as maidens dressed in…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Militants behead children as young as 11’

‘Militants behead children as young as 11’

NEWS
CHILDREN as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique, UK-based aid group Save the Children said yesterday, as part of an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and forced many magnitudes more from their homes. Save the Children said it had spoken to displaced families who described "horrifying scenes" of murder, including mothers whose young sons were killed. In one case, the woman hid, helpless, with her three other children as her 12-year-old was murdered nearby. "We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him," the 28-year-old, who Save the Children called…
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Mar
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Gambian war crimes suspect arrested

Gambian war crimes suspect arrested

NEWS
GERMAN police detained a Gambian man yesterday suspected of participating in crimes against humanity, including the killing of a journalist, as a driver in the elite guard of former President Yahya Jammeh, Germany's federal prosecutor said. Journalist Deyda Hydara The Federal Public Prosecutor General (GBA) identified the suspect as Bai L., under German privacy rules which bar releasing the surname of suspects. It said the suspect had been a member of Jammeh's elite guard, known as "the junglers", for three years starting in December 2003, and on at least three occasions drove officers to locations where they fired on the…
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