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Oct
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Tanzania opposition leader says facing repression as elections near

Tanzania opposition leader says facing repression as elections near

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THREE weeks before elections, the Tanzanian government is getting scared and will do all in its power to stop the opposition, according to Tundu Lissu, a presidential hopeful whose convoy was teargassed by police last week. "It is getting harder. It is getting hotter. We expected this," Lissu, from the main opposition Chadema party, told Reuters on Wednesday. Chadema says its party offices in Arusha in northern Tanzania were firebombed. Meanwhile, dozens of opposition parliamentary candidates were disqualified from running in the elections for president and members of parliament on October 28. "The regime is getting scared and therefore they…
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Oct
08
2020
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s COSATU leads union protests over coronavirus impact

South Africa’s COSATU leads union protests over coronavirus impact

NEWS
ALEXANDER WINNING SOUTH Africa's biggest trade union group, COSATU, has led nationwide protests against job losses, wage curbs and corruption cases, in an outpouring of anger at how workers have been treated during the coronavirus crisis. The union federation organised motorcades, pickets and marches in the country's nine provinces, although it was not clear how many of its more than 1 million members heeded a call to stay away from work. Labour unrest regularly affects companies in sectors like mining during negotiations over wages, but it is much rarer for COSATU, typically an ally of the governing African National Congress…
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Oct
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso

Gunmen kill 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso

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ARMED assailants have killed 25 displaced people in northern Burkina Faso as their convoy tried to make its way home, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. The gunmen, who carried out the attack near the town of Pissila in the Center-North region on the night of October 4, separated the men from the group and shot them. The women and children were let go, UNHCR said in a statement based on survivors' testimony. "The attack on the (internally displaced people) occurred as they were returning to their homes from Pissila, hoping for an improved security situation there," the…
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Oct
08
2020
By The African Mirror
South African police make an arrest in connection with lawlessness by furious white farmers

South African police make an arrest in connection with lawlessness by furious white farmers

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER LESS than 24 hours after coming under heavy criticism for failing to act when faced with brazen unlawfulness, South African police have arrested a farmer for the acts, which included the torching of a police van, firing of a gun in and damage to the court building. The 52 year-old farmer, who has not been named, was arrested for his role in the torching of the police vehicle. He is expected to be joined by others as the South African Police Service expect to make more arrests. “The suspect will be charged with malicious damage to property…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Full list of assets that the state seized from “Asbestos Seven”

Full list of assets that the state seized from “Asbestos Seven”

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE state has attached assets worth hundreds of millions rands, including properties and bank accounts belonging to seven people arrested in connection with fraud and corruption associated with a R255-million asbestos tender. The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU), pounced and attached the vehicles and properties belonging to the “Asbestos Seven” on the strength of a court order granted by the Bloemfontein High Court.  The attached cars and the bank accounts are now in the custody  of court appointed curators pending the outcome of the criminal case against the “Asbestos Seven”. Here is a full list of the properties,…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenyan court finds two men guilty for roles in 2013 shopping mall attack

Kenyan court finds two men guilty for roles in 2013 shopping mall attack

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A Kenyan court today found two men guilty of helping al Qaeda-linked militants launch a 2013 assault on a Nairobi shopping mall in which gunmen killed at least 67 people. A third man who also faced charges under the country's terrorism prevention act was acquitted on all charges. The trial is the only prosecution Kenya has mounted so far over the attack by gunmen from the Somali militant group al Shabaab on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, at the time seen as a symbol of the East African country's growing prosperity. It was the worst attack by Islamist militants in Kenya,…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
South Africa Hawks police not aware of imminent arrest of ANC’s Magashule

South Africa Hawks police not aware of imminent arrest of ANC’s Magashule

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SOUTH African elite police unit Hawks said it was not aware of any arrest warrant for African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Ace Magashule, following media reports his arrest was imminent. "The Hawks would like to categorically distance itself from the IOL (media) report regarding the so-called impending arrest against Mr Ace Magashule," Hawks spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said in a statement on WhatsApp shortly before midnight Tuesday. The Hawks "view the report as a malicious intent to undermine the integrity of the organization". The Independent Media, citing sources, reported that Magashule will be arrested and charged over an alleged role in…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Police attacked for inaction after angry white South African farmers take the law into their hands

Police attacked for inaction after angry white South African farmers take the law into their hands

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN violent acts of defiance, fueled by anger over the brutal of a young farmer in Senekal, in the Free State, his colleagues torched a police van, tried to overturn another and forced their way into court where at least two shots were fired. Failure by the police to act against the farmers has been criticised by South Africans who took to social media to express their anger.  Pandemonium erupted at the Senekal Magistrates Court where two suspects, Sekwetje Isaiah Mahlamba (32) and Sekola Piet Matlaetsa (44), arrested for the murder of Brendin Horner (22), appeared. The…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Belgium arrests three Rwandans in connection with 1994 genocide

Belgium arrests three Rwandans in connection with 1994 genocide

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MARINE STRAUSS BELGIUM’S federal prosecutor's office has announced the arrest of three people of Rwandan origin who were charged with serious violations of international law linked to the 1994 genocide. The arrests come as survivors of the genocide have demanded an acceleration in the pace of international justice, and Belgium, the former colonial power in Burundi and Congo as well as Rwanda, seeks to do more to come to terms with its past. Militants from Rwanda's Hutu ethnic majority killed about 800,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 100 days during the genocide in 1994. Felicien Kabuga Belgium's prosecutor said…
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