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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Intelligence helps Namibia turn tide against rhino poachers, government says

Intelligence helps Namibia turn tide against rhino poachers, government says

NEWS
INCIDENTS of rhino poaching in Namibia have been dropping steadily as timely intelligence work has helped nab hunters before they shoot in known hotspots, the government has said. Joint police and government task forces have proven "extremely successful", the spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism said, with intelligence enabling a proactive, rather than reactive, response. "Instead of the discovery of a dead rhino initiating an investigation, would-be poachers are now regularly arrested while they are still conspiring to kill a rhino," Romeo Muyunda said in a statement celebrating World Rhino Day. It said just 22 rhinos have…
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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenya’s parliament to challenge dissolution bid over lack of women

Kenya’s parliament to challenge dissolution bid over lack of women

NEWS
NITA BHALLA KENYA’S parliament will launch a legal challenge to a bid by the country's top judge to dissolve both legislative houses for not having enough women lawmakers, the speaker said on Tuesday, calling the move ill-advised, premature and unlawful. Chief Justice David Maraga on Monday advised President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve the male-dominated parliament, saying lawmakers had failed to meet a 2010 constitutional provision which allows for one-third of seats to be occupied by women. Women hold 22% of seats in the country's lower house of parliament, and 31% in the upper house. Justin Muturi Under Kenyan law, once…
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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
South Africa calls for UN reform, lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe and Sudan

South Africa calls for UN reform, lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe and Sudan

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER South Africa has called for a radical reform of the United Nations and a lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe and Sudan. In a special address to mark the 75th anniversary of the UN, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said changes had to be made because “the UN Security Council does not reflect the world in which we live.”  The President, who is also chair of the African Union (AU), repeated South Africa’s call for greater representation of African countries on the Security Council and asked that the call be taken up with urgency at the intergovernmental negotiations.…
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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Tokyo 2020 consulting firm paid around $370,000 to Diack’s son

Tokyo 2020 consulting firm paid around $370,000 to Diack’s son

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A consulting firm for Tokyo's Olympic bid committee paid around $370,000 to the son of Lamine Diack, once one of the world's most powerful sports officials, around the time Japan was picked to host the 2020 Games, Kyodo News has reported. The report comes amid French investigations into the former head of Tokyo's bid committee, Tsunekazu Takeda, for approving around $2 million in payments to Black Tidings, a now-defunct consulting firm in Singapore. The report said the findings, based on a review of financial documents as well as reporting by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and several media organisations…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Global banks seek to contain damage over $2 trillion of suspicious transfers

Global banks seek to contain damage over $2 trillion of suspicious transfers

NEWS
ALUN JOHN, SUMEET CHATTERJEE and  LAWRENCE WHITE  GLOBAL banks faced a fresh scandal about dirty money as they sought to limit the fallout from a cache of leaked documents showing they transferred more than $2 trillion in suspect funds over nearly two decades. Britain-based HSBC, Standard Chartered and Barclays, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, and JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of New York Mellon Corp were among the lenders named in the report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and based on leaked documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. While some banks said many of the transactions happened a…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Armed men kill at least a dozen civilians in northeast Congo

Armed men kill at least a dozen civilians in northeast Congo

NEWS
FISTON MAHAMBA ARMED men killed at least a dozen people and kidnapped several in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday night, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks they have blamed on Ugandan Islamist rebels. Violence attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in eastern Congo since the 1990s, has surged since the army began a counter-insurgency campaign against them late last year. Armed men attacked the city of Mbau in Beni territory, North Kivu province, near the Ugandan border, killing and kidnapping people and burning houses before fleeing into the bush,…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenya’s top judge advises parliament to dissolve over lack of women

Kenya’s top judge advises parliament to dissolve over lack of women

NEWS
NITA BHALLA  KENYA’S top judge advised President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve the country's male-dominated parliament, saying lawmakers had failed to meet a constitutional provision which would allow for one-third of seats to be occupied by women. Despite Kenya's 2010 constitution stating that no more than two-thirds of any elected or appointed body can be of the same gender, women hold 22% of seats in the country's lower house of parliament, and 31% in the upper house. Court rulings since 2012 have directed parliament to pass legislation to enforce the gender rule or risk being dissolved - but previous attempts have…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Former colonel Ndaw named interim Mali president, junta leader VP

Former colonel Ndaw named interim Mali president, junta leader VP

NEWS
FORMER Mali defence minister and retired colonel Bah Ndaw was named interim president, while the leader of the junta that seized power last month, Colonel Assimi Goita, was appointed vice president, Goita said in a statement. Mali's ruling junta has come under intense pressure from leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to return power to civilians following the August  18 coup that overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. It was unclear whether the arrangement would satisfy ECOWAS, which last week threatened to step up economic sanctions and impose a total embargo on landlocked Mali if its conditions…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Cameroonian soldiers jailed for killing women and children

Cameroonian soldiers jailed for killing women and children

NEWS
FOUR Cameroonian soldiers have received 10-year prison sentences for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked an international outcry, their lawyers said. They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men levelling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to her back. The video was one of several to emerge in recent years of alleged atrocities by Cameroonian forces during operations against Islamist Boko Haram militants in the north and Anglophone separatists in the west. The trial…
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Sep
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Botswana says toxins in water cause of mysterious elephant deaths

Botswana says toxins in water cause of mysterious elephant deaths

NEWS
THE deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana this year which had baffled and alarmed conservationists were caused by toxins produced by cyanobacteria in water, officials said on Monday. Cyril Taolo, deputy director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, told a news conference that the number of dead elephants had risen to 330, from 281 last reported in July. The department's principal veterinary officer Mmadi Reuben told the same conference that there were, however, still many unanswered questions. "Our latest tests have detected cyanobacterial neurotoxins to be the cause of deaths. These are bacteria found in water," Reuben…
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