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Dec
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Historic Liberia war crimes trial to start in Switzerland

Historic Liberia war crimes trial to start in Switzerland

NEWS
EMMA FARGE THE trial of a former Liberian commander accused of rape, pillage, assassinations, and an act of cannibalism opens in Switzerland this week. The trial of Alieu Kosiah, who denies the charges, is one of just a handful of cases brought before international courts in relation to the West African country's 1989-2003 conflict, which killed nearly a quarter of a million people, often at the hands of child soldiers. He is accused of war crimes listed as "recruitment and use of a child soldier, forced transportation, looting, cruel treatment of civilians, attempted murder, murder (directly or by order), desecration…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Lewis Hamilton tests positive for COVID-19

Lewis Hamilton tests positive for COVID-19

NEWS
7TH time world Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss this weekend's Grand Prix in Bahrain. His team Mercedes has revealed that Hamilton, who won last weekend’s race at a different circuit in Bahrain, had three tests which returned negative results. However, he woke up with mild symptoms on Monday and was informed that a contact he had met before last weekend’s race had tested positive. “Lewis, therefore, took a further test and returned a positive result. This has since been confirmed by a retest. Lewis is now isolating in accordance with COVID-19 protocols…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
ANC politician free after serving three months of two-year jail sentence

ANC politician free after serving three months of two-year jail sentence

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ANDILE Lungisa, an ANC leader in the Eastern Cape, has been released from jail after serving three months of a two-year jail sentence for smashing a glass jar on the head of an opposition politician. The South African Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has explained the special set of circumstances that have led to the early release of Lungisa from prison. Lungisa is a former councillor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and ex-deputy president of the ANC Youth League. He was convicted of assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm and sentenced to an…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Botswana sets up gender violence courts to tackle pandemic backlog

Botswana sets up gender violence courts to tackle pandemic backlog

NEWS
KELETSO THOBEGA  BOTSWANA will launch 25 gender violence courts this week following a rise in cases during the coronavirus pandemic - a measure women's campaigners hope will bring swifter justice to victims of sexual and domestic abuse. The government of the southern African country moved to establish the courts after women's rights advocates warned that lockdown curbs were exacerbating high rates of gender-based violence by trapping many women at home with abusers. "(Bringing a case to court) can be a long, tedious process, and this frustrates many victims," said Kgomotso Kelaotswe, a counselor supervisor from the Botswana Gender Based Violence…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Somalia expels Kenyan envoy in latest row between neighbours

Somalia expels Kenyan envoy in latest row between neighbours

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SOMALIA ordered the expulsion of Kenya's ambassador after accusing neighbouring Kenya of interfering in the electoral process in Jubbaland, one of Somalia's five semi-autonomous states, the latest dispute between the two countries. Somalia also recalled its ambassador from Nairobi. "As a result of the Kenyan government's political interferences in the internal affairs of Somalia, the regional President of Jubbaland has reneged on the election agreement that was reached on the 17th September 2020 in Mogadishu," the Somali Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Facebook. The statement did not elaborate on the interference or the agreement the Jubbaland president had…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Egypt says case of Italian student’s murder to be closed temporarily

Egypt says case of Italian student’s murder to be closed temporarily

NEWS
EGYPT considers that the person who killed Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016 is still unknown and it will temporarily close the case file on the murder, Egyptian and Italian prosecutors have said in a joint statement. Regeni, a 28-year-old postgraduate student at Cambridge University, vanished in Cairo in January 2016. His body was found almost a week later and a post mortem examination showed he had been tortured before his death. Egypt's public prosecution has evidence against a criminal gang accused of robbing Regeni but believes that "the material perpetrator" of the murder remains unknown, Monday's statement…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
In Sudan camp, a Tigray farmer once displaced by famine now shelters from war

In Sudan camp, a Tigray farmer once displaced by famine now shelters from war

NEWS
SEHAM ELORABY and BAZ RATNER ETHIOPIAN farmer Berhan Halie came to Sudan 35 years ago to escape hunger. Now 65 and walking with a stick, he is back again, this time to escape the bullets and bombs of the conflict in Tigray, fleeing from his village as neighbours lay dead on the ground. Berhan and his family spent days walking to the border crossing with Sudan, among more than 45,000 who have fled from fighting between the Ethiopian government and rebellious Tigray forces. After crossing two weeks ago, he was brought by bus to the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's…
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Dec
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia’s Abiy relishes victory, Tigrayan leader says war unfinished

Ethiopia’s Abiy relishes victory, Tigrayan leader says war unfinished

NEWS
ETHIOPIA’S Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has lauded his troops for their victory over a rebellious northern movement, but the leader of Tigrayan forces said they were still resisting amid fears of a protracted guerrilla conflict. The nearly month-long war has killed hundreds and probably thousands of people, sent refugees into Sudan, enmeshed Eritrea, and stirred rivalries among Ethiopia's myriad ethnic groups. Federal forces captured Tigray's capital Mekelle at the weekend and declared victory over the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a guerrilla movement-turned-political party that had dominated national government for nearly three decades until 2018. "Our constitution was attacked but…
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Nov
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Threats, detentions and frozen assets: Nigeria’s protesters depict pattern of intimidation

Threats, detentions and frozen assets: Nigeria’s protesters depict pattern of intimidation

NEWS
LIBBY GEORGE and PAUL CARSTEN AT 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Onomene Adene received a call from a man whose voice she did not recognise. The man said he knew her from church and asked for help getting a package to their pastor. She agreed to meet him at a bank near her home in the Nigerian city of Lagos. But shortly after she arrived, according to Adene, three trucks pulled up filled with police armed with rifles and tear gas demanding that she take them to her brother. Terrified, she complied. "It was like they were coming for…
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Nov
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Maradona’s doctor probed for his death

Maradona’s doctor probed for his death

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER WORLD superstar Diego Maradona’s doctor, who is being investigated for his death, has denied any wrongdoing. Argentine law enforcement agencies yesterday raided the clinic and properties of Dr Leopoldo Luque in San Isidro, an affluent suburb in Buenos Aires, who face possible charges of culpable homicide. Luque has denied any wrongdoing. The investigation followed a complaint from Maradona’s three daughters about the treatment the football legend received days before his death. Maradona, who captained the Argentine national team that won the World Cup in 1986   died at age 60 of acute lung edema and chronic heart…
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