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Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast council approves President Ouattara for third term bid

Ivory Coast council approves President Ouattara for third term bid

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IVORY Coast's Constitutional Council ruled that President Alassane Ouattara is eligible to run for a third term in the October 31 presidential election, even as opponents said his candidacy jeopardises the West African country's democracy. Violent protests have rocked Ivory Coast since Ouattara, in power since 2010, announced his candidacy. Over a dozen people have died in clashes between protesters and police since August. The constitution says the president can only stay in power for two terms, but Ouattara has argued that the publication of a new constitution in 2016 reset his presidency. The unrest has political observers worried that…
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Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigeria reels from twin crises that threaten food availability

Nigeria reels from twin crises that threaten food availability

NEWS
LIBBY GEORGE MAL Shehu Ladan took a boat across what was, until this month, a growing rice paddy. Now, like thousands of hectares of rice in Nigeria’s Kebbi state, it is underwater. “Almost all my farm has been flooded. I didn’t harvest any rice,” Ladan told Reuters. “It’s going to be devastating.” Floods early this month across northwest Nigeria destroyed 90% of the 2 million tons that Kebbi state officials expected to harvest this autumn, the head of the state branch of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria told Reuters. The loss amounts to some 20% of the rice Nigeria…
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Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Baby steps towards peace in Libya

Baby steps towards peace in Libya

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN pursuit of a Libyan-led solution for their deep political problems, the two factions at war and bidding to rule Libya have met and have taken the first step towards an agreement that could bring peace and stability in that country. The Libyan Dialogue, hosted by Bouznika, Morocco, is aimed at bringing peace to a country that has known peace since the death, in 2011 of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. The two factions - the Libyan High Council of State and the Tobruk Parliament - reached a watershed agreement that is expected to pave the way to…
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Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
TRESemmé hair ad angered South Africans still hurting from racist past

TRESemmé hair ad angered South Africans still hurting from racist past

NEWS
NQOBILE DLUDLA SITTING in a hair salon as a stylist braids her natural hair, Sana Sebone recalls a time in 2013 when she worked on a construction site and was told her dreadlocks were too long and represented a hazard. She was upset, she said, mainly because her white colleagues with long hair were not told the same as their hair was considered "normal". Seven years on, that term is haunting her again after an advert was released by TRESemmé, a Unilever brand, describing images of African Black hair as "frizzy and dull" and "dry and damaged" while a white…
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Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Pink coffins mark growing death toll of Congo gold mine collapse

Pink coffins mark growing death toll of Congo gold mine collapse

NEWS
CRISPIN KYALA PINK painted coffins lined a hillside in eastern Congo as rescuers filled them with the bodies of victims of a gold mine cave-in, in which 50 people are feared dead. Alexandre Ngandu Kamundala, deputy mayor of Kamituga, one of Democratic Republic of Congo's oldest gold-mining communities close to where the unofficial mine collapsed on Friday, said that 19 bodies have so far been found. "All the inhabitants have stayed at home ... to pay tribute to the victims," Kamundala said, as an outpouring of grief continued, with shops and markets in Kamituga closed. Dozens die each year in…
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Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Protests erupt in Ivory Coast against Ouattara’s third term bid

Protests erupt in Ivory Coast against Ouattara’s third term bid

NEWS
POLICE  in Ivory Coast have fired tear gas to break up demonstrations against President Alassane Ouattara's decision to run for a third term in office that opponents say jeopardises the West African country's democracy. Protesters set up barricades and shut down down traffic in several towns including the commercial capital Abidjan, where a burning bus sent high plumes of black smoke from the densely-populated Yopogoun district. Demonstrators also torched a truck in the western city of Bangolo, witnesses said. Violent protests have rocked Ivory Coast since Ouattara, in power since 2010, said he would run for a third term in…
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Sep
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Ten Tanzanian schoolchildren killed in dormitory fire

Ten Tanzanian schoolchildren killed in dormitory fire

NEWS
NUZULACK DAUSEN TEN Tanzanian schoolchildren were killed when a dormitory at a privately-owned primary school in the north of the country caught fire, a senior government official said on Monday. Police, the fire department and other government officials have started an investigation into the fire, the cause of which is unknown, Marco Gaguti, the regional commissioner for Kagera, told Reuters by phone. "This dormitory was housing 74 pupils and when it caught fire the pupils started fleeing, but due to the impact of the fire some couldn't make it on time," Gaguti said. Seven other children suffered from burns during…
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Sep
14
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero appears in court on terror charges

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero appears in court on terror charges

NEWS
CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA PAUL Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, has faced 12 charges including terrorism in a Kigali court, in a case shining a spotlight on opposition to President Paul Kagame. Rusesabagina, who once called for armed resistance to the government in a YouTube video, was accused of terrorism, complicity in murder and forming or joining an irregular armed group, among the charges. The 66-year-old former hotel manager was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film "Hotel Rwanda" using his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing the slaughter. Brought to court handcuffed…
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Sep
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Instagram apologises for removing images of Black British model

Instagram apologises for removing images of Black British model

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RACHEL SAVAGE INSTAGRAM has apologised to a Black British plus-size model after she said its repeated removal of images showing her covering her breasts with her arms betrayed "racial biases" in its algorithm. https://www.instagram.com/p/CE89AYDAMRy/?utm_source=ig_embed Nyome Nicholas-Williams won the backing of high-profile campaigners including the actress Jameela Jamil and feminist activist Gina Martin for her campaign to have the images of her reinstated. In an open letter to the company posted on her Instagram, @curvynyome on Thursday, she said the images were still being removed from the platform weeks after she received assurances the issue would be resolved. Instagram apologised and said both…
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Sep
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Why Uganda has suspended hundreds of refugee aid agencies

Why Uganda has suspended hundreds of refugee aid agencies

NEWS
CRISTIANO D'ORSI, Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg THE Ugandan government recently suspended the operations of 208 refugee aid organisations. The organisations were suspended over non-compliance with Ugandan regulations. Only 69 aid agencies are now authorised to assist Uganda’s 1.4 million refugees. Uganda has a recent history of tensions with refugee aid organisations. This comes at a time when the country’s refugee crisis has worsened, thanks to the resurgence of violence in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Uganda’s government has…
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