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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
French journalist kidnapped in Mali

French journalist kidnapped in Mali

NEWS
FRENCH Foreign Affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed yesterday that a French journalist who disappeared last month in Mali's northern city of Gao had probably been taken hostage by Islamist militants in West Africa's arid Sahel region. Olivier Dubois this month appeared in a video appealing to authorities to do everything they can to free him from the JNIM (al Qaeda North Africa) holding him. French authorities have previously only confirmed Dubois' disappearance. "Everything leads us to believe he's the hostage of a jihadist group", Le Drian told RTL radio.
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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel’s Gaza challenge: stopping metal tubes turning into rockets

Israel’s Gaza challenge: stopping metal tubes turning into rockets

NEWS
JONATHAN SAUL, JOHN IRISH, ARSHAD MOHAMMED and PARISA HAFEZI THE Israel-Hamas conflict that ended with a ceasefire on Friday showed the Palestinian group's ability to build an arsenal of homemade rockets largely with civilian materials and Iranian expertise, analysts and officials said, a feat it can likely replicate. The low cost of such arms and the need to rebuild Gaza leaves Israel and the international community with a quandary of how to meet Gazans' basic needs yet keep ordinary items such as pipes, sugar and concrete from being put to military uses. Current and former officials see no easy answers,…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Battle of Gigabas: first shots fired…

Battle of Gigabas: first shots fired…

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE stage is set for a war of words between one of South Africa’s famous couples - former Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba and his estranged wife Nomachule. From sharing the limelight at five star functions and recognised for their love of fashion as well as finer things in life, the couple have fallen out of love - a divorce is pending - and they are already exchanging barbs.  Accusations, counter-accusations and calling each other liars became commonplace this week as Malusi and Nomachule not only exchanged seats at the Zondo Commission into state capture but also some…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Morocco wants Polisario chief probed

Morocco wants Polisario chief probed

NEWS
MOROCCO has urged Spain to open an investigation into the circumstances of a Western Sahara independence leader's arrival in the country for medical treatment and explain its findings to Rabat. Madrid should explain "the conditions, circumstances and connivances that led to the fraudulent entry of this person using false documents and a usurped identity," said Foreign Ministry Director General Fouad Yazourh. Spain's decision to host Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali without telling Rabat while using what Morocco says are travel documents provided by Algeria and a false name, has angered Rabat, which regards Western Sahara as part of Morocco. The…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Gaza ceasefire holding as Egyptian mediators consult Hamas, Israel

Gaza ceasefire holding as Egyptian mediators consult Hamas, Israel

NEWS
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip held yesterday as officials said Egyptian mediators conferred with the sides on securing longer-term calm. The ceasefire began before dawn on Friday, ending 11 days of cross-border shelling exchanges that caused fresh devastation in Gaza, shook up Israel and raised international concern about a slide into wider regional conflict. Egypt, which mediated the halt to the fighting with U.S. support, sent a delegation to Israel at around noon on Friday to discuss ways of firming up the ceasefire, including with aid for Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas officials told…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Use of $338-million COVID-19 funds questioned

Use of $338-million COVID-19 funds questioned

NEWS
CAMEROON government auditors have alleged ministries and state bodies misappropriated and mismanaged funds from a $338 million national coronavirus response plan, according to a purported leaked summary of their report shared widely online. The government and presidential administration did not respond to requests for comment on the report. A justice ministry representative referred queries to the supreme court, which has authority over the auditing body. Supreme court officials did not respond to requests for comment. The International Monetary Fund has given $382 million in emergency funds to Cameroon since the start of the pandemic and said it was important for…
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May
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Gigaba accuses wife of “creative imagination”

Gigaba accuses wife of “creative imagination”

NEWS
AFRICAM MIRROR REPORTER SHORTLY after he had taken the witness stand, vacated by his estranged wife a few minutes earlier, former Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba declared his intention to deal with what he described as Nomachule Gigaba’s “creative imagination.” In response to a question from evidence leader Advocate Anton Myburgh’s question about how many  times he had visited the home of the Gupta family, accused of being at the centre of state capture, Malusi said: I would want  an opportunity, ample opportunity to respond comprehensively to Ms Mngoma’s creative imagination. I want to deal with what she testified here. The…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Volcano in eastern DRC erupts

Volcano in eastern DRC erupts

NEWS
MOUNT Nyiragongo, a volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, erupted yesterday, a volcanologist in the nearby city of Goma told Reuters. "I can see high lava fountains and I think it's likely it will be in Goma very soon," said the volcanologist, Dario Tedesco. "For the moment people are not evacuating." Nyiragongo last erupted in 2002, killing 250 people and making 120,000 homeless after lava flowed into Goma. Tedesco said the volcano has some of the fastest lava in the world. Volcano watchers have been worried that the volcanic activity observed in the last five years mirrors that…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Exclusive: SA’s military solution for Mozambique

Exclusive: SA’s military solution for Mozambique

NEWS
WENDELL ROELF SOUTH Africa will press for urgent military action by regional body SADC to quell an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique threatening to destabilize neighbouring countries, the foreign minister has said. It will make this call at a summit of the Southern African Development Community's 16 member states next week, Naledi Pandor told Reuters in a telephone interview. SADC leaders have been discussing how to tackle the insurgency by Islamic State-linked militants, with an option for force, but this is the first time South Africa has explicitly thrown its weight behind the idea of military intervention. View Post Since 2008,…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian army chief dies in air force plane crash

Nigerian army chief dies in air force plane crash

NEWS
PAUL CARSTEN and CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA'S army chief Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru died in a plane crash yesterday on an official visit to the northern state of Kaduna, which has had security challenges in recent months, three military sources told Reuters. The air force said in a statement that its plane crashed near Kaduna airport and that it was investigating the immediate cause of the crash. The crash comes three months after a small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport following alleged engine failure, killing all seven people on board. The sources, who spoke on condition…
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