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Oct
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s president urges end to street protests as gunfire heard in Lagos after protest crackdown

Nigeria’s president urges end to street protests as gunfire heard in Lagos after protest crackdown

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FELIX ONUAH and LIBBY GEORGE  NIGERIAN President Muhammadu Buhari has called for an end to street protests in the country, as authorities in the commercial capital Lagos struggled to enforce a curfew imposed to contain anger over a crackdown on anti-police protesters. Gunshots rang out and smoke rose from at least two fires in the commercial capital's affluent Ikoyi neighbourhood, witnesses said. A fire broke out in the district's prison, the state government said. Video footage showed a blaze in a shopping mall in another part of Lagos. Violence in Lagos, Africa's biggest city - where witnesses on Thursday reported…
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Oct
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Four ex-top Gauteng officials bust for R1.2-billion tender fraud

Four ex-top Gauteng officials bust for R1.2-billion tender fraud

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FOUR former senior Gauteng Health Department officials have been arrested in connection with fraud, corruption and money laundering in connection with an irregular R1,2-billion information technology tender. Former head of department Sybil Ngcobo, Mmakgosi Mosupi (former director of information and communication), Valdis Ramaano (former head of supply chain) and Obakeng Moekeletsi (former deputy director-general), were arrested by The Hawks and have appeared in the Palm Ridge Commercial Crimes Court, where they were granted bail. The state alleges that in 2007,  the four were involved in criminal activities which resulted in a tender for R57-millions ballooning to R1.2-bilion…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian court hears blasphemy conviction appeals in northern city Kano

Nigerian court hears blasphemy conviction appeals in northern city Kano

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HAMZA IBRAHIM TWO judges in northern Nigeria have heard the first appeals against Islamic law blasphemy convictions that caused global outrage when a man was sentenced to death over a WhatsApp message and a 13-year-old received a 10-year jail term. The judges, at the appeals section of the secular high court in the city of Kano, said verdicts would be delivered at a later date. In August, a Kano sharia court sentenced Yahaya Aminu Sharif to death for allegedly sharing a blasphemous message on WhatsApp and Omar Farouq, accused of making blasphemous comments in an argument, received a prison sentence.…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Israel delegation to Sudan talks agriculture, health care cooperation

Israel delegation to Sudan talks agriculture, health care cooperation

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DAN WILLIAMS ISRAEL sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the countries announced a U.S.-brokered agreement on October 23 to take steps toward establishing relations, a source said. The talks focussed on how Israel might shore up Sudan's agriculture, food security, water supplies and health care, the source, who declined to be identified by name or nationality, told Reuters. The Israeli delegates also met separately with representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, the source said. Israeli and Sudanese officials had no immediate comment. Nor did the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Burkina Faso president Kabore secures re-election, preliminary results show

Burkina Faso president Kabore secures re-election, preliminary results show

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BURKINA FASO President Roch Kabore has won re-election by a comfortable margin, preliminary results have shown, after an election marred by insecurity that prevented swathes of the West African country from voting. Some analysts had expected a closer contest on Sunday between Kabore, who was elected in 2015, and his main rivals, who argued he had failed to contain Islamist and ethnic violence that forced 1 million people to flee their homes during his first term. The results read out by the election commission showed Kabore won 57.87% of the vote. He needed over 50% to avoid a second round.…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia to launch ‘final phase’ of offensive in Tigray region, says PM

Ethiopia to launch ‘final phase’ of offensive in Tigray region, says PM

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THE Ethiopian military will begin the "final phase" of an offensive in the northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced after an ultimatum expired for Tigrayan forces to surrender. The government had given the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) until Wednesday to lay down their arms or face an assault on Mekelle, the regional capital of 500,000 people. Rights groups have raised concerns for civilians caught up in military operations in which thousands are already believed to have died since fighting began on November 4. The United Nations estimates 1.1 million Ethiopians will need aid as a result…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Africa faces wait for mass COVID-19 vaccination

Africa faces wait for mass COVID-19 vaccination

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MASS vaccination against COVID-19 is unlikely to start in Africa until midway through next year and keeping vaccines cold could be a big challenge, according to the continent's disease control group. Some European countries expect to start rolling out vaccination campaigns as early as January. But health campaigners are worried that Africa will find itself near the back of the queue for COVID-19 vaccines after wealthier nations signed a raft of bilateral vaccine supply deals with pharmaceutical companies. "We are very concerned as a continent that we will not have access to vaccines in a timely fashion," said John Nkengasong,…
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Nov
27
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Adios Diego’: Maradona buried as world mourns soccer great

‘Adios Diego’: Maradona buried as world mourns soccer great

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MAXIMILIAN HEATH and GABRIELE PILERI ARGENTINA’S Diego Maradona, one of the world's greatest ever soccer players, has been buried, amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy. The death of Maradona at the age of 60 on Wednesday, following a heart attack, has sparked both mourning and celebrations of a true sporting star, who was a genius on the soccer field but lived a life marred by struggles with addiction. In a day of high emotion, the World Cup winner was taken by hearse late on Thursday to the Bella Vista cemetery…
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Nov
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Boko Haram attack kills four Chadian soldiers

Suspected Boko Haram attack kills four Chadian soldiers

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MADJIASRA NAKO FOUR soldiers in southwest Chad were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a boat thought to have been caused by an improvised bomb, a local official said on Wednesday, suggesting it was the work of Islamist group Boko Haram. Chad has suffered attacks on its soil from Nigeria-based Boko Haram since 2015. The jihadist insurgency first erupted in northeast Nigeria in 2009 before spreading into Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon, and killed more than 30,000 people. The blast occurred on Tuesday night on a boat travelling near Ngouboua, around 25 km (15 miles) from the Nigerian…
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Nov
26
2020
By The African Mirror
U.S. blacklists Libyan militia, leader after Russia stops U.N. sanctions

U.S. blacklists Libyan militia, leader after Russia stops U.N. sanctions

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MICHELLE NICHOLS  THE United States unilaterally blacklisted Libya's Kaniyat militia and its leader on Wednesday after Russia last week prevented a U.N. Security Council committee from imposing sanctions over human rights abuses by the group. The U.S. sanctions were imposed under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the U.S. government to target human rights violators worldwide by freezing assets and prohibiting Americans from doing business with them. "Mohamed al-Kani and the Kaniyat militia have tortured and killed civilians during a cruel campaign of oppression in Libya," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. The United States and Germany…
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