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Dec
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Top Egypt officials visit Libya capital for first time in years

Top Egypt officials visit Libya capital for first time in years

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SENIOR Egyptian security officials have visited the Libyan capital Tripoli for the first time in years and held talks with officials from the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), the Libyan interior ministry said. The visit was the first for senior Egyptian officials to Tripoli since 2014 when the country entered a civil war between the GNA, based in the capital, and the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Khalifa Haftar. Tripoli's government is backed by Turkey while LNA is backed by Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Libya descended into chaos after the NATO-backed overthrow of…
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Dec
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Deadly fire hits Egyptian hospital treating COVID patients

Deadly fire hits Egyptian hospital treating COVID patients

NEWS
A fire killed at least seven people and injured several others yesterday at a private hospital that was treating coronavirus patients on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo, local sources and media said. The fire broke out at about 9 a.m. at Misr Al Amal Hospital in El Obour, some 30 km (19 miles) northeast of central Cairo, and according to initial investigations was caused by an electrical fault, security and medical sources said. The hospital was evacuated and closed and patients were transferred to a public hospital in Cairo, the sources said. Egypt has seen a sharp increase…
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Dec
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Uganda halts vote campaigning in some areas, opposition cries foul

Uganda halts vote campaigning in some areas, opposition cries foul

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UGANDA has suspended all campaigning for January's presidential poll in the capital and 10 populous districts on Saturday, citing coronavirus risks, but critics said the real reason was the opposition's popularity in these areas. The East African country is scheduled to hold a presidential election on January 14. "The Independent Electoral Commission has suspended campaign meetings in districts and cities categorised by the Ministry of Health as having a high spread of Coronavirus. From December 26, 2020, no campaign meetings will be held in Mbarara, Kabarole, Luwero, Kasese, Masaka, Wakiso, Jinja, Kalungu, Kazo, Kampala City and Tororo," said commission spokesman…
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Dec
27
2020
By The African Mirror
U.N. peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic before election

U.N. peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic before election

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ANTOINE ROLLAND THREEE United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in the Central African Republic, the U.N. mission there has announced, as the government and its allies tried to fend off a rebel offensive ahead of Sunday's presidential and legislative elections. The Burundian peacekeepers were killed by unidentified assailants in Dekoa, about 200 km (125 miles) north of the capital Bangui, according to the U.N. mission, known as MINUSCA. Two more were injured, it said. Peacekeepers were also attacked by unknown assailants in Bakouma in the southwest of the country, MINUSCA added. The Central African Republic, which is rich in diamonds,…
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Dec
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Netanyahu expects ties visit by Morocco to Israel next week

Netanyahu expects ties visit by Morocco to Israel next week

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A delegation from Morocco will travel to Israel in the coming week to advance newly-normalized relations, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu on Friday spoke with Morocco's King Mohammed VI and invited him to visit. An Israeli delegation travelled to Morocco on Tuesday and the countries plan to reopen mutual liaison offices and to launch direct commercial flights. "We agreed that the Moroccan delegation will come here at the start of the week in order to advance it all," Netanyahu said in a video he posted on Twitter, in which he described his conversation with the king. A…
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Dec
26
2020
By The African Mirror
South African health workers stretched as COVID-19 infections near 1 million

South African health workers stretched as COVID-19 infections near 1 million

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SHAFIEK TASSIEM and WENDELL ROELF MATRON Annamarie Odendaal has cancelled all staff holiday on the COVID-19 ward at the private Arwyp Medical Centre in Johannesburg as a second wave of the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm South Africa's health system. "I called them back because we are in a peak period now, so it's not easy for the staff because they also want to go back to their family members," she told Reuters on the ward on Christmas Day. "Sometimes they are tired but they never say 'I can't come to work'. The patient is really always first for them." A…
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Dec
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Death toll from attack in western Ethiopia reaches 222, Red Cross says

Death toll from attack in western Ethiopia reaches 222, Red Cross says

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THE death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country's Red Cross told Reuters. "Yesterday we buried 207 people who are the victims and 15 more from the attackers," said the volunteer, Melese Mesfin. The attack occurred in the village of Bekoji in Bulen county in the Metekel zone, and the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission initially estimated more than 100 people had been killed. More than 40,000 people fled their homes due to the fighting, Bulen county spokesman Kassahun Addisu said. He said the county…
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Dec
26
2020
By The African Mirror
‘At least 15 dead in delays at South Africa-Zimbabwe border’

‘At least 15 dead in delays at South Africa-Zimbabwe border’

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AT least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy queues that have been slowed by coronavirus screening, television news channel eNCA said. The health ministry, Department of Home Affairs and South African police Local did not respond immediately to Reuters' requests on Friday for confirmation of fatalities that local media outlets attributed to exhaustion and ill health owing to a lack of facilities while waiting to cross the border, sometimes for days. Images and videos on local news channels and circulated on social media showed lines of…
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Dec
26
2020
By The African Mirror
In Christmas message curbed by Covid, pope calls on nations to share vaccines

In Christmas message curbed by Covid, pope calls on nations to share vaccines

NEWS
PHILLIP PULLELA Pope Francis in his Christmas message said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid 19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and "the virus of radical individualism". In a sign of the times, Francis delivered his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message virtually from a lectern inside the Vatican instead of from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica before tens of thousands. The pandemic and its social and economic effects dominated the message, in which Francis called for global unity and…
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Dec
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali opposition leader and presidential hopeful Cisse dies

Mali opposition leader and presidential hopeful Cisse dies

NEWS
THE  long-time leader of Mali's opposition, Soumaila Cisse, has died at the age of 71, his spokesman said, two months after his release from lengthy captivity by Islamist insurgents. Cisse, a former finance minister who finished runner-up in the 2013 and 2018 presidential elections to Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, was considered among the favourites in a vote expected in early 2022 after Keita's overthrow in an August military coup. "I confirm that Soumaila died last night in Paris," his spokesman, Nouhoum Togo, told Reuters without providing further detail. French media reported that he had died of COVID-19. Cisse was kidnapped in…
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