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Jan
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Moroccan court sentences dissident historian to year in prison

Moroccan court sentences dissident historian to year in prison

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A Moroccan court has sentenced dissident writer and rights activist Maati Mounjib and two others to one year in prison on charges of endangering internal state security and fraud, in a case dating back to 2015 and denounced by rights activists. Human Rights Watch wrote in a recent report that Moroccan authorities have been cracking down on critical social media commentators and journalists using the penal code instead of the press code, which does not provide for prison sentences. Morocco rejected the report. A university historian who writes frequent newspaper editorials, Mounjib has criticised Morocco's record on freedom of expression…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Dos Santos back in Angola after 30-month exile

Dos Santos back in Angola after 30-month exile

NEWS
ANGOLA’S former President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has returned home for the first time since he went into exile in Barcelona in April 2019, the official Angola Press News Agency has reported. Dos Santos stepped down four years ago after nearly four decades as president of Africa's second-biggest oil producer, making him one of the continent's longest-running rulers. He was replaced by Joao Lourenco, a candidate for the incumbent's People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). But Lourenco then surprised many by swiftly moving to investigate allegations of corruption during the Dos Santos era, targeting the former leader's children…
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Jan
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo prime minister accepts no confidence vote, freeing president from alliance

Congo prime minister accepts no confidence vote, freeing president from alliance

NEWS
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo's Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba has accepted parliament's vote of no confidence in his government, opening the way for President Felix Tshisekedi to appoint his loyalists to key ministries. The departure of Ilunga, an ally of former President Joseph Kabila, cements Tshisekedi's break from a power-sharing pact that had been forced on him when he came to power two years ago because Kabila's allies still controlled parliament. The awkward alliance, which forced Tshisekedi to bargain with his predecessor over any policy shift, added to challenges facing his government as it sought to quell violence in Congo's…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Police recapture 114 prisoners

Police recapture 114 prisoners

NEWS
A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been recaptured, the prison service has announced. Heavily armed gunmen raided the medium-security jail at Kabba in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing almost everyone, but killing a soldier and a police officer, authorities said. The attackers fought a gun battle with guards in what was the second major jailbreak in Nigeria this year. "Following the attack ... and the swift intervention of the controller general of corrections ... a total of 114 escapees have been recaptured,"…
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Jan
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Anger in Somalia as sons secretly sent to serve in Eritrea military force

Anger in Somalia as sons secretly sent to serve in Eritrea military force

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH ALI Jamac Dhoodi thought his son was working as a security guard in Qatar, helping prepare for next year's soccer World Cup. Then one day last April, officials from Somalia's National Intelligence Agency arrived with $10,000 in cash. They told him his son had died - not in Qatar, but in Eritrea, one of the world's most secretive countries. "They showed me a picture from their WhatsApp and asked me, 'do you know this picture and his full name?' I said, 'yes he is my son,'" Dhoodi, 48, told Reuters. "They said to me 'your son died'. I…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Africa looks to rework its food systems

Africa looks to rework its food systems

NEWS
CONRAD ONYANGO AFRICAN countries are rallying behind a common position in a quest for lasting solutions to food insecurity and climate change as they gear up for the upcoming global food summit in New York. Increasing funding in agricultural research and leveraging on technology tops the African agenda to be tabled during the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) scheduled for September 23, 2021. The African Union’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment (ARDWE), Josefa Sacko, says the summit offers a platform to rework the continent’s food systems. “This is an opportunity for us to build a food system…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Man attempting to smuggle 200 lizards to Egypt arrested

Man attempting to smuggle 200 lizards to Egypt arrested

NEWS
POLICE in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region have arrested a man at an airport as he tried to smuggle 200 lizards to Egypt. It was not immediately clear why the suspect was illegally exporting the reptiles, the police and wildlife authorities in the region said. "It is illegal to export Somaliland's wildlife because they (can) become extinct," said Gelle Hassan, a communications officer with Somaliland police. The arrest was made at Egal airport in the region's capital of Hargeisa, the police said. The reptiles, which were wrapped in clothes and hidden in bags, were handed over to the ministry of environment,…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian wildfires scorch cork industry

Tunisian wildfires scorch cork industry

NEWS
JIHED ABIDELLAOUI FOR cork collector Khaled Warhani, the wildfires that devastated part of northern Tunisia's lush woodland this summer were a warning of how the changing climate will hurt his livelihood. Though the fires were far worse in neighbouring Algeria, the blaze that raged through the forested hills around Ain Draham burned 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of woodland, including many of the cork oak trees that local people harvest each autumn. "When the forest burns, we have nowhere else to work and will have nothing to eat," said Warhani, who had laden his donkey with thick, springy cork bark to…
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Sep
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea junta starts transitional government talks following coup

Guinea junta starts transitional government talks following coup

NEWS
The junta that ousted Guinea's President Alpha Conde last week has started a week-long consultation with political, religious, and business leaders that it says will lead to the formation of a transitional government. The dialogue, which began with a meeting with leaders of the main political parties on Tuesday, is expected to lay out the framework of a promised government of national unity that would lead Guinea back to constitutional order. The talks are expected to define the duration of the transition, what political and institutional reforms are needed before elections, and who will lead the transition. The coup led…
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Jan
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma forced to appear before commission

Zuma forced to appear before commission

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE highest court in South Africa has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma should appear,  give evidence and answer questions at the Zondo Commission into state capture, fraud and corruption. The Constitutional Court not only ordered that Zuma must obey all summonses issued by the Zondo Commission, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, but also slapped Zuma with the cost of the application. In a unanimous decision, the court said while Zuma does not have the right not to answer questions, he would be entitled to show to the commission why answering questions may incriminate him.…
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