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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
More than 200,000 flee conflict in C.A.R

More than 200,000 flee conflict in C.A.R

NEWS
EMMA FARGE MORE than 200,000 people have fled fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) since violence erupted over a December election result, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said, with nearly half crossing into the Democratic Republic of Congo. The CAR army, backed by U.N., Russian and Rwandan troops, has been battling rebels seeking to overturn a December 27 vote in which President Faustin-Archange Touadera was declared the winner. "Refugees have told UNHCR that they fled in panic when they heard gun shots, leaving their belongings behind," spokesman Boris Cheshirkov told journalists in Geneva. The nation of nearly five million…
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Sep
18
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. paves way for more sanctions over Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict

U.S. paves way for more sanctions over Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict

NEWS
DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS THE United States on Friday paved the way for further sanctions to be imposed on parties to the conflict in northern Ethiopia, where thousands have been killed and millions are in need of humanitarian assistance. A new executive order allows Washington to take punitive action against those in the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Amhara regional government if they continue to pursue military conflict over negotiations, senior U.S. administration officials said. The move, which increases pressure on the parties to come to the negotiating table and bring an end to the…
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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Hundreds of Tunisians protest about police abuse

Hundreds of Tunisians protest about police abuse

NEWS
HUNDREDS of Tunisians marched in the capital yesterday to protest against police abuses they say are endangering freedoms won in the 2011 revolution that swept away authoritarian rule. Hundreds of riot police confronted the demonstrators, leading to scuffles. Some protesters threw bottles, while police struck some demonstrators with batons. There have been near daily protests since the mid-January, the anniversary of Tunisia's revolution that sparked uprisings across the region in 2011, known as the Arab Spring. Tunisia was the only Arab state to emerge with a democratic system in place. Amid sporadic clashes, police have arrested more than a thousand…
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Sep
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian lawmaker detained trying to attend own court hearing

Tunisian lawmaker detained trying to attend own court hearing

NEWS
AN opposition member of parliament in Tunisia was detained on Friday when he tried to attend a court hearing against himself, his lawyer said, adding to concern for human rights after the president seized extra powers in July. Saif Eddine Makhlouf, a leader of the conservative Karama party and a frequent critic in parliament of President Kais Saied, was arrested by plainclothes agents as he tried to enter the military court, his lawyer Anouar Awled told Reuters. The agents took Makhlouf away in a car, a video Awled posted online showed. The judge hearing his case at the military court…
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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegal’s dead pelicans test positive for bird flu

Senegal’s dead pelicans test positive for bird flu

NEWS
SOME 750 pelicans found dead in a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Senegal last week have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, the head of the parks authority has told Reuters. Rangers found the pelicans on January 23 in the Djoudj bird sanctuary, a remote pocket of wetland near the border with Mauritania and a resting place for birds that cross the Sahara Desert into West Africa each year. The birds were incinerated and the park is closed, said Bocar Thiam, Senegal's parks director. The sanctuary is a transit place for about 350 species of birds but only pelicans…
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Sep
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia’s president berates Djibouti

Somalia’s president berates Djibouti

NEWS
SOMALIA’S President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has accused neighbouring Djibouti of illegally detaining his national security adviser, a criticism which appeared linked to a destabilising row between the president and his prime minister. Djiboutian authorities held the adviser, Fahad Yasin, preventing him from travelling to Mogadishu by air, the director of communications in the presidency Abdirashid Hashi said, without providing more details. "Such acts will not help to strengthen our ties between our governments," Hashi said in a statement. Djibouti's foreign minister, without naming any individual, denied reports that it was interfering in Somalia. "We will continue to stand by our…
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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Botswana investigates 11 new elephant deaths

Botswana investigates 11 new elephant deaths

NEWS
BRIAN BENZA BOTSWANA is investigating the deaths of 11 elephants at one of its game reserves, months after hundreds of elephants died from ingesting toxic microorganisms. The latest deaths occurred in the Moremi Game Reserve, a statement from the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism said, ruling out suspicions of poaching as the tusks of the elephants were found intact. The Moremi reserve lies about 100 kilometres east of Seronga, where last year's deaths were reported. Over a period of several weeks starting in May, 330 elephants were found dead under mysterious circumstances near the fringes of the…
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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
10 facts about the most dangerous diseases you’ve never heard of

10 facts about the most dangerous diseases you’ve never heard of

NEWS
NITA BHALLA AS the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, resources are being sucked away from the fight against a host of debilitating diseases that affect 1.7 billion of the poorest people on the planet, medical experts have warned. Yesterday, charities marked World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, seeking to draw attention to a diverse group of communicable diseases that still cause immense suffering around the world, even though they can be prevented or cured. They include leprosy, Chagas disease, intestinal worms, dengue and chikungunya, Guinea worm disease, scabies, trachoma and schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis or elephantiasis, yaws, river blindness and sleeping sickness.…
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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
How to own the ‘menstrual economy’

How to own the ‘menstrual economy’

NEWS
LISA WITEPSKI ACCESS to sanitary pads continues to be a major challenge for many South African women – but one that entrepreneurs Lindiwe Nkuna and Matefo Morakeng are determined to address. Here is a frightening statistic: according to Globalhealth.org, around 3.7 million South African girls are unable to afford sanitary pads. Added to this, around 30% of learners miss out on school during their periods, precisely because of this lack of access. Lindiwe Tinny Nkuna Although it is this worrying trend that has caused many South Africans to take note, at long last, of the impact of menstruation on the…
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Jan
31
2021
By The African Mirror
No poison in president’s envelope

No poison in president’s envelope

NEWS
A suspicious envelope sent this week to Tunisia's Presidency did not contain any toxic, narcotic, dangerous or explosive substance, the country's Public Prosecutor has said. The presidency said on Thursday that the office manager for Tunisia's president had suffered a headache and short-term vision loss after opening the envelope on Monday. Reports on social media on Wednesday said President Kais Saied had been sent a letter that may have contained poison. However, the Public Prosecutor said in a statement on Friday that tests carried out on the suspicious envelope by a technical team had found that it did not contain…
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