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Mar
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Three soldiers killed as dozens attack Ivory Coast camps

Three soldiers killed as dozens attack Ivory Coast camps

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ANGE ABOA DOZENS of militants from Burkina Faso attacked two military posts in northern Ivory Coast early yesterday, killing three soldiers and wounding seven, the West African nation's army said. Three militants were also killed and four detained when approximately 60 ambushed the camps during more than an hour of combat, the army said in a statement. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but one of the posts was attacked last year which the defence ministry blamed on jihadists. Two soldiers were killed during an initial raid on a military camp in Kafolo, near the border…
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Mar
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Tanzania’s new president acts against graft

Tanzania’s new president acts against graft

NEWS
TANZANIA’S new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, yesterday ordered the suspension of the head of the ports authority over corruption allegations, continuing her late predecessor's anti-graft drive. Observers have been keen to see signs of policy direction from Hassan, who was sworn in on March 19 after John Magufuli died, and whose soft-spoken, consensus-seeking personality contrasts with his brash populism and authoritarianism. Speaking in the political capital Dodoma after receiving a government audit report, Hassan signalled that, in respect of corruption at least, she would follow his tough line. Deusdedit Kakoko "I would like to assure you that I will be…
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Don’t shoot,’ begged priest, before he was shot 3 times

‘Don’t shoot,’ begged priest, before he was shot 3 times

NEWS
FOURTEEN-year-old Mibrak Esayus recalls the day last November when she says Eritrean soldiers burst into her home in Ethiopia's Tigray region and killed her mother and father. It was 10 days into Ethiopia's military campaign against fighters from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the region's former ruling party, following their surprise assault on federal army bases in Tigray. The family heard shooting outside their home in the town of Zalambessa, on the border with Eritrea, from around dawn, Mibrak said. Eritrean soldiers burst in around midday. Her father, a priest at the local Ethiopian Orthodox church, begged them "Don't…
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Mar
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudan, rebel group sign agreement

Sudan, rebel group sign agreement

NEWS
DENIS DUMO THE Sudanese government and a major rebel group from its southern Nuba Mountains on Sunday signed a document that paves the way for a final peace agreement by guaranteeing freedom of worship to all while separating religion and the state. The signing is viewed as a crucial step in efforts by the power-sharing government headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to reach accords with rebel groups across the country and end decades of conflicts that left millions displaced and hundreds of thousands dead. Last year Sudan signed a peace agreement with many groups, including from the Western region…
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Mar
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Dozens killed in besieged Mozambique gas town

Dozens killed in besieged Mozambique gas town

NEWS
DOZENS of people were killed in an attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma this week, a spokesman for the country's defence and security forces said, including seven people when a convoy of cars was ambushed in an escape attempt. Hundreds of other people, both local and foreigners, have been rescued from the town, next to gas projects worth $60 billion, Omar Saranga told journalists on Sunday. A British contractor was among the dead, killed when suspected Islamist insurgents attacked his hotel compound, The Times reported earlier. Hundreds of people fleeing the attack are arriving by boat in the…
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Mar
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Hamilton continues to take a knee before F1 opener

Hamilton continues to take a knee before F1 opener

NEWS
MERCEDES’' seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton took a knee on the starting grid before yesterday's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix while wearing a black T-shirt declaring "Actions speak louder than words". The sport's only Black driver, and an outspoken campaigner for racial equality, regularly made the gesture last season as Formula One drivers gathered together in a campaign against racism. Formula One has broadened out the "We Race As One" ceremony this year to wider social and environmental issues. Hamilton had said on Thursday that he planned to continue taking a knee to send a message to the younger…
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
‘2,276 died trying to reach Europe’

‘2,276 died trying to reach Europe’

NEWS
MORE than 2,200 people perished at sea trying to reach Europe last year, more than a third on the increasingly busy route to Spain's Canary Islands, the U.N. migration agency has said. The true toll is probably far higher as aid groups reported at least five "invisible shipwrecks" that were never confirmed as they left no survivors, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. In all, 2,276 migrants are known to have drowned while 86,448 arrived by sea in Europe in 2020, IOM said in a report. A further 52,037 migrants were intercepted at sea. "Of particular concern is the…
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt revises death toll from train crash

Egypt revises death toll from train crash

NEWS
THE death toll from a collision of two trains in central Egypt on Friday has been revised to 19, from 32, Egypt's health minister said in a statement yesterday. The number of people injured went up to 185 from 165. Egypt's public prosecutor's office said it had ordered an investigation into the crash, which took place close to the Nile-side town of Tahta, about 365 km (230 miles) south of Cairo.
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Hamilton spoke to Bahrain officials about human rights

Hamilton spoke to Bahrain officials about human rights

NEWS
ALAN BALDWIN  FORMULA ONE world champion Lewis Hamilton said he had spoken to Bahrain officials about human rights in the country after promising last year he would not let any abuses go unnoticed. The Mercedes driver, who will be chasing a record eighth world title in a season that starts in the Gulf kingdom on Sunday, detailed efforts he had made to inform himself. The Briton said in December he had been moved by a letter from the son of a jailed man facing the death penalty. Hamilton had, however, been unable to meet officials at the time after testing…
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