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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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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s military investigates reports of Boko Haram leader’s death

Nigeria’s military investigates reports of Boko Haram leader’s death

NEWS
CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA’S military is investigating reports that the leader of militant Islamist group Boko Haram may have been killed or seriously injured following clashes with rival jihadists, according to an army spokesman. Abubakar Shekau has been the figurehead of an Islamist insurgency that has since 2009 killed more than 30,000 people, forced around 2 million people to flee their homes and spawned one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. A number of reports published on Thursday in Nigeria media, citing intelligence sources, said Shekau was seriously hurt or killed after his insurgents clashed with members of Islamic State in…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Hope for an end to Spain-Morocco spat

Hope for an end to Spain-Morocco spat

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THE Spanish interior minister hopes a diplomatic spat with Morocco over an influx of illegal migrants into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta would soon end. Morocco had appeared to loosen its border controls with Ceuta for two days on Monday, letting thousands of migrants pour into the enclave. The move was widely viewed as retaliation for Spain's hosting of Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali. Spain has said Ghali was admitted as a COVID-19 patient to a Spanish hospital last month under an assumed name and an Algerian diplomatic passport for humanitarian reasons. "There was a disagreement (with Morocco)…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopian soldiers guilty Tigray crimes

Ethiopian soldiers guilty Tigray crimes

NEWS
AYENAT MERSIE THREE Ethiopian soldiers have been convicted of rape and one of killing a civilian in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the government said on Friday, the first public statement that soldiers had been found guilty of crimes against civilians in the conflict. Twenty-eight more soldiers are on trial for killing civilians and 25 for acts of sexual violence and rape, the statement from the attorney general's office said. Awol Sultan, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, could not immediately be reached for comment for further details or whether the records would be made public. Neither could military spokesman General…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Algerian police quash protest

Algerian police quash protest

NEWS
A heavy police presence smothered central Algiers, effectively blocking a resumption of a weekly protest movement that the authorities have decided they can no longer tolerate. A Reuters journalist saw about 20 security forces vehicles in the city centre, six police sitting inside one as it stood by a cafe where people drank coffee at tables outside. Nearby, police stood next to barriers closing off the side streets. One regular protester who gave only his first name Amarouche for fear of reprisals after a wave of arrests had initially said he planned to demonstrate as usual. But later on Friday,…
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May
21
2021
By The African Mirror
I’d rather die than go back – Moroccan migrant

I’d rather die than go back – Moroccan migrant

NEWS
JON NAZCA and MARIANO VALLADOLID A Moroccan boy who used empty plastic bottles to swim to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta this week said he would rather die than go back to Morocco, according to the Spanish soldier who translated for him before he was escorted away. The boy attracted international media attention as he floated in a dark T-shirt with the bottles under his clothes and attached to his arms, crying as he reached the beach only to be led away by soldiers. "He didn't want to go back, he didn't have any family in Morocco, he didn't…
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May
21
2021
By The African Mirror
‘COVID-19 Billionaires should pay for the poor’

‘COVID-19 Billionaires should pay for the poor’

NEWS
NITA BHALLA  COVID-19 vaccine profits have created at least nine billionaires whose combined wealth would be enough to inoculate all of the world's poor, a coalition of charities and activists said yesterday, calling for a more equitable distribution of jabs. The new billionaires - who include senior executives from U.S. firm Moderna Inc and China's CanSino Biologics - have a net worth of $19.3 billion between them, according to the People's Vaccine Alliance. That sum would be more than enough to fully vaccinate all the people in low-income countries, the alliance said, urging pharmaceutical companies to end their "monopoly" over…
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