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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian authorities return police brutality activist’s passport

Nigerian authorities return police brutality activist’s passport

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LIBBY GEORGE NIGERIAN immigration officials returned the passport of a prominent activist against police brutality after it was seized when she tried to leave the country last week, the activist said on Monday. Modupe Odele, second from right. Picture: Facebook Thousands of people took to the streets last month in anti-police protests. The demonstrations climaxed on October 20 when security forces opened fire and killed at least 12 protesters in Lagos, according to witnesses and Amnesty International. The army and police have denied the killings. Modupe Odele, a lawyer who has helped arrange legal defence for the protesters, said last…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
China offers backing to Guinea president after disputed election

China offers backing to Guinea president after disputed election

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CHINA offered its backing to Guinea's President Alpha Conde, congratulating him on his re-election despite accusations from the opposition of fraud during the vote in the major bauxite producer. "China and Guinea are good friends," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing. "We value our tradition of friendship and stand ready to work with the Guinean side to further advance our comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership to achieve benefits to our two peoples." China has mining interests in Guinea in iron ore and bauxite, used for making steel and aluminium respectively. China is the top world producer…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara wins third term, final results show

Ivory Coast’s Ouattara wins third term, final results show

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IVORY Coast President Alassane Ouattara won a third term with 94.27% of the vote, after an election that opposition parties largely boycotted and dismissed as illegal, final results have shown. Main opposition figures are facing criminal charges after denouncing the October 31 vote and creating a rival government in protest. Opposition groups say Ouattara violated the constitution, which limits presidents to two terms. Ouattara says the approval of a new constitution in 2016 allows him to restart his mandate. Clashes in the run-up to the vote and on election day killed around 35 people, officials said, raising concerns about the…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Hundreds dead in escalating Ethiopian conflict, sources say

Hundreds dead in escalating Ethiopian conflict, sources say

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GUILIA PARAVICINI AN escalating conflict in Ethiopia's restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on the government side said, even as the prime minister sought to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war. The flare-up in the northern area bordering Eritrea and Sudan threatens to destabilise Africa's second-most populous nation, where ethnic conflict has already killed hundreds since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took over in 2018. Reuters reporters travelling in Tigray and the neighbouring Amhara region saw trucks packed with armed militia and pickups with mounted machine-guns rushing to the front line in support…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
Mozambique files charges against ex-finance minister over $2 billion debt

Mozambique files charges against ex-finance minister over $2 billion debt

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MOZAMBIQUE has filed provisional embezzlement, money laundering and abuse of office charges against former finance minister Manuel Chang over $2 billion in state-guaranteed debt borrowed during his term in office. Chang has been in custody in South Africa since December 2018, where he is being sought both by Mozambique and the United States to face prosecution over the loans. Three former Credit Suisse bankers who helped arrange the loans pleaded guilty in the United States earlier this year to conspiracy charges including bribery and fraud. South Africa had cited the absence of formal charges in Mozambique as an issue blocking…
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Nov
10
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Great day for humanity’: Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine over 90% effective

‘Great day for humanity’: Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine over 90% effective

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MICHAEL ERMAN and JULIE STEENHUYSEN PFIZER Inc's experimental COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the drugmaker said, a major victory in the war against a virus that has killed over a million people and battered the world's economy. Experts welcomed the first successful interim data from a large-scale clinical test as a watershed moment that showed vaccines could help halt the pandemic, although mass roll-outs, which needs regulatory approval, will not happen this year. Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE said they had found no serious safety concerns yet and expected to seek U.S.…
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Nov
09
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia not heading for ‘chaos’ over Tigray operation, says PM

Ethiopia not heading for ‘chaos’ over Tigray operation, says PM

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ETHIOPIA is not plunging into chaos due to a military operation launched by the federal government in the northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said, amid fears of civil war in Africa's second-most populous nation. "Ethiopia is grateful for friends expressing their concern," he tweeted. "Concerns that Ethiopia will descend into chaos are unfounded and a result of not understanding our context deeply."  The prime minister stepped up a military offensive in the northern region of Tigray on Sunday with air strikes as part of what he called a "law enforcement operation", increasing fears of outright civil war…
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Nov
09
2020
By The African Mirror
In Nigeria, looters target government warehouses stocked with COVID-19 relief

In Nigeria, looters target government warehouses stocked with COVID-19 relief

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PERCY DABAND and ANGELA UKOMADU LOOTERS have been targeting state warehouses across Nigeria stocked with COVID-19 relief supplies which they say should already have gone to the poor and hungry. Authorities denied accusations of food hoarding or plans to sell the supplies. The National Governors Forum (NGF), which brings together the heads of Nigeria's 36 states, said some of the looted items were a "strategic reserve ahead of a projected second wave of COVID-19." But stores of so-called "palliatives", some rotting, months after COVID-19 lockdowns ended, provoked outrage in a nation reeling from spiralling food prices, high unemployment and anti-police…
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Nov
09
2020
By The African Mirror
From women to migrants: What does a Biden win mean for Africa?

From women to migrants: What does a Biden win mean for Africa?

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NITA BHALLA DEMOCRAT Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election is set to affect Africa's 1.3 billion people on issues ranging from climate change and immigration to women's health and human rights, according to academics and analysts. Under the Trump administration, the United States pulled out of the landmark Paris climate accord, issued travel bans on Muslim-majority nations, and cut aid to charities providing reproductive health services that included abortion advice. The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked activists, academics and analysts how a Biden administration could impact Africa's 54 nations. DAVID KODE, HEAD OF ADVOCACY, CIVICUS "Civil society groups in…
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Nov
09
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopian PM fires army chief as country teeters on brink of civil war

Ethiopian PM fires army chief as country teeters on brink of civil war

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GIULIA PARAVICINI and DAWIT ENDESHAW ETHIOPIA’S Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed replaced his army chief, the head of intelligence and the foreign minister as the military continued a five-day-old offensive in the restive Tigray region with a new round of airstrikes. Abiy's office did not give reasons for the personnel changes, which come as he is pursuing a military campaign against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a powerful ethnic faction that led the ruling coalition for decades until Abiy took office in 2018. Abiy's office said in a statement that Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen had been appointed foreign minister…
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