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Oct
28
2020
By The African Mirror
UK police given more time to question seven men involved in tanker incident

UK police given more time to question seven men involved in tanker incident

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BRITISH police were granted more time to question seven men arrested after hostile stowaways aboard an oil tanker in the English Channel prompted special forces to storm the vessel on Sunday. "Officers have been granted more time by Southampton Magistrates Court to question seven men as we continue to lead the investigation into the maritime security incident onboard the Nave Andromeda off the coast of the Isle of Wight on Sunday 25 October," police said in a statement. The seven men, who are all Nigerian nationals, were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use…
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Oct
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Opposition in Zanzibar says candidate detained, people shot ahead of vote

Opposition in Zanzibar says candidate detained, people shot ahead of vote

NEWS
AN opposition presidential candidate in Zanzibar detained as he tried to vote early on Tuesday has been released, after nine people were shot dead by security forces ahead of Wednesday's elections, according to his party. Zanzibar, an Indian Ocean archipelago, is a semi-autonomous state of the East African country of Tanzania and both are due to elect their presidents and lawmakers in Wednesday's election. President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania makes his address at the 17th Summit of EAC Heads of State. Photo source: Paul Kagame Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli, whose government is accused of muzzling political dissent and…
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Oct
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kidnap American citizen in southern Niger

Gunmen kidnap American citizen in southern Niger

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BOUREIMA BALIMA and DAVID LEWIS SIX gunmen on motorbikes with AK-47 assault rifles kidnapped an American man from his home on the edge of a rural village in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday, multiple sources said. The kidnappers seized 27-year-old Philip Walton, who kept camels, sheep and poultry and grew mango trees near the border with Nigeria, at around 0145 local time (0045 GMT), a police source, two local officials and three security sources told Reuters. His wife, young daughter and his brother were left behind in their home in the village of Massalata, the police source…
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Oct
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian judge throws out case against 47 men facing homosexuality charge

Nigerian judge throws out case against 47 men facing homosexuality charge

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ALEXIS AKWAGYIRAM A judge in a Nigerian court on Tuesday threw out a case against 47 men charged with public displays of affection with members of same-sex, ending what had widely been seen as a test of the country's laws banning homosexual relationships. The Nigerian law banning gay marriage, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, and same-sex "amorous relationships", prompted an international outcry when it came into force under former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014. The men were arrested in a police raid on a Lagos hotel in the city's Egbeda district in 2018. Police said the men…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali and France at odds over talks with Islamist militants

Mali and France at odds over talks with Islamist militants

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MALI’S interim prime minister is open to talks with Islamist militants whose insurgency has made vast swathes of the country ungovernable, but former colonial power France signalled opposition to the idea. Ousted former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said earlier this year that his government was prepared to negotiate with al Qaeda-linked militants. National talks in the aftermath of the August coup that overthrew Keita endorsed that policy. Moctar Ouane Malian officials have provided few specifics about what kinds of compromises could emerge, but some proponents of negotiations have said they could include recognition of a greater role for Islam in…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Rwandan genocide suspect in detention in The Hague

Rwandan genocide suspect in detention in The Hague

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RWANDAN genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga is in custody in The Hague after his transfer from France following a United Nations court order. Kabuga, who was on the run for 22 years until his arrest in France in May, will soon be brought before a judge, the United Nations tribunal said in a statement. Last week a U.N. judge ordered his transfer to the Netherlands, rather than to a U.N. detention unit in Tanzania, out of health considerations amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kabuga, 84, is likely to spend at least several months in The Hague and could then still be tried…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Soccer star becomes first woman to coach a men’s pro team in Egypt

Soccer star becomes first woman to coach a men’s pro team in Egypt

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FAIZA Heidar grew up playing soccer in the streets with the boys and went on to captain Egypt's national women's team. Now she has become the first woman to train one of the country's professional men's clubs. Heidar has been signed up by the fourth division side Ideal Goldi, based in Giza. "There is usually some mockery at the beginning," the 36-year-old told Reuters. "But then they realise that they will learn something, that they will develop their skills." She said she was the first Egyptian coach - male or female - to gain the Premier Skills Coach Educator status,…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Police arrest seven Nigerian stowaways after British special forces board tanker

Police arrest seven Nigerian stowaways after British special forces board tanker

NEWS
HENRY NICHOLLS  SEVEN men have been arrested on suspicion of seizing control of a ship, British police have announced, The arrests took place after British special forces stormed an oil tanker under threat from a group of stowaways the previous evening. The tanker's operator thanked the British authorities, saying help was requested after seven stowaways who had boarded in Lagos, Nigeria, turned hostile. Troops from the Special Boat Service, Britain's elite naval special forces unit, boarded the Greek-operated Nave Andromeda near the Isle of Wight off southern England after the master of the ship said he was concerned about the…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
South African president praises police breakthrough in football icon’s murder case

South African president praises police breakthrough in football icon’s murder case

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN an unusual step, South African president has praised the country’s top detectives who made a breakthrough, arresting five suspects in connection with the 2014 murder of national goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa. Heads of of state don’t normally comment on police investigations but Ramaphosa has seen it fit to comment on a major development on a murder case that has gripped South Africa for the past six years. Meyiwa, the Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, was murdered in a house in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg. The case went cold, raising the ire of his family, friends and…
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Oct
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Zanzibar opposition campaign manager says he was threatened by armed men

Zanzibar opposition campaign manager says he was threatened by armed men

NEWS
AN opposition party campaign manager in semi-autonomous Zanzibar has revealed that he had been seized and threatened by armed men, while a parliamentary candidate was still missing before Tanzanian elections next week. Earlier on Sunday the ACT-Wazalendo party said Nassor Mazrui, its Zanzibar campaign manager and the party's deputy secretary general for the archipelago, and Abdalla Ali Abdalla, the party candidate for the House of Representative elections, had been abducted on Saturday in separate incidents. Mazrui re-emerged at the party's political rally in Zanzibar later on Sunday, saying his assailants fired a shot in the air before forcing him out…
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