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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Six Sudan officers sentenced to death

Six Sudan officers sentenced to death

NEWS
A Sudanese court has sentenced to death six officers in the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the 2019 killing of six students who were protesting at economic hardship as civilians negotiated power-sharing with the military. The prosecution of personnel from the RSF - which is commanded by the deputy head of Sudan's transitional governing body - over these killings and others alleged is seen as a test of the government's commitment to democratisation after decades of autocratic Islamist rule. In a statement on the convictions of the RSF officers, the civilian court in Elobeid, where the killings occurred, said…
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Aug
07
2021
By The African Mirror
“Lingerie” pops up in Africa online search report

“Lingerie” pops up in Africa online search report

NEWS
AFRICA NO FILTER, VIA BIRD NEWSROOM EACH month, Africa No Filter, a donor collaborative aimed at shifting narratives on and in Africa away from damaging stereotypes, releases its findings on social media search patterns on the continent. In June there was one unexpected item: "lingerie". Another month, another reminder that the economic impact of COVID-19 is still unfolding across Africa. For the near future, governments around the continue are likely to take measures like restrictions on travel and non-essential services and movement, to help curb a new wave of infections. The "third" wave of infections is causing what researchers have…
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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
SPECIAL REPORT: How a G7 task force unwittingly helps govts target critics

SPECIAL REPORT: How a G7 task force unwittingly helps govts target critics

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ANGUS BERWICK IN late 2020, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni faced a fresh challenge to his 35-year rule, a new tool helped to silence his critics: anti-money laundering legislation promoted by the G7. The Financial Action Task Force, established by the G7 group of advanced economies to protect the global financial system, had written to Uganda's government eight years earlier telling it to do more to combat money laundering and terrorism financing or risk being placed on a "grey list" of deficient countries, according to a top Ugandan official who described the private letter to Reuters. Such a move could…
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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Tigrayan forces take UN World Heritage Site

Tigrayan forces take UN World Heritage Site

NEWS
FORCES from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, whose famed rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage Site, and residents were fleeing, two eyewitnesses told Reuters on Thursday. Lalibela, also a holy site for millions of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, is in the North Wollo Zone of the Amhara region in Ethiopia's north. In recent weeks fighting has spread from Tigray into two neighbouring regions, Amhara and Afar, forcing around 250,000 people to flee. Senior officials from the United Nations and the United States government who visited Ethiopia this week raised alarm at the widening…
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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Privacy concerns in Nigeria’s digital ID push

Privacy concerns in Nigeria’s digital ID push

NEWS
KELECHUKWU IRUOMA JOINING several other countries, including Kenya, Uganda and India, Nigeria's government is in the process of rolling out a digital identity system to enable easier access to public and private services. But, like those and other digital ID projects around the world, Nigeria's initiative has been dogged by privacy concerns, with citizens and rights groups saying the country's lack of data protection leaves their personal information open to abuse. By October 2020, six years after the government launched a national electronic identity card, less than a quarter of Nigeria's 200 million people had signed up for a National…
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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Dismissed Tunisian PM appears in public

Dismissed Tunisian PM appears in public

NEWS
TUNISIA’S anti-corruption authority has aired photographs dated of ex-prime minister Hichem Mechichi declaring his properties at the agency's headquarters, his first public appearance since his July 25 dismissal by President Kais Saied. Saied invoked a national emergency in taking executive control of the government and freezing parliament in a move that was welcomed by protesters disgruntled over years of disorder and stagnation but branded a coup by his political opponents.
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
SA’s ex-health minister turns to courts

SA’s ex-health minister turns to courts

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER DR Zweli Mkhize, who resigned as South Africa’s Health Minister ahead of a cabinet reshuffle by President Cyril Ramaphosa, is taking the Special Investigation Unit (SIU), which found that he was implicated in alleged corruption, to court. In his letter of resignation, Mkhize was scathing of the SIU but said he felt he had to resign to enable Ramaphosa to have a full-functional cabinet. “I remain committed to working under your leadership, and it is an honour for me to serve the people of South Africa in our government‘s quest to deliver a better life for all.…
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Aug
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Ghana court drops case against 21 LGBT+ activis

Ghana court drops case against 21 LGBT+ activis

NEWS
A court in Ghana has dismissed a case against 21 Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) activists, ruling there was not enough evidence to prove they had gathered unlawfully, a prosecutor in the case said. "What this means is that they cannot be brought back to court on the same charges. So they have been freed," Chief Superintendent Akologo Yakubu Ayamga told Reuters. The 16 women and five men were arrested at a hotel in the southeastern city of Ho in May. Police said they had gathered illegally to advocate LGBT+ activities with books and flyers with titles including, "Coming…
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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
I promised, and I delivered – Ramaphosa

I promised, and I delivered – Ramaphosa

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has used the annual state of the nation address (SONA) to provide proof that he has delivered on promises made to revive one of Africa’s biggest economies, pull people out of poverty and provide jobs. Ramaphosa, delivering the first SONA under COVID-19 conditions without pomp and ceremony, tabled a progress report to prove that the promises made last year were being fulfilled. The president did not deliver a bouquet of promises but instead said his government would be focussed on three priorities in 2021.  “First, we must defeat the coronavirus pandemic.  Second,…
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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Egyptian activist stripped of citizenship

Egyptian activist stripped of citizenship

NEWS
THE Egyptian government should reverse its arbitrary and abusive decision, made in December 2020, to revoke the citizenship of political activist Ghada Naguib, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.  HRW also called on the Egyptian parliament to amend abusive citizenship laws so that they comply with the country’s international human rights obligations.  According to the organisation, on December 24, 2020, Egypt's Official Gazette published the government's decision, signed by Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, to strip Naguib, who lives abroad, of her Egyptian nationality.  The decison is based on the Law 26 of 1975, which gives the government the power to…
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