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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudan cracks down on ex-ruling party

Sudan cracks down on ex-ruling party

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ A committee tasked with dismantling the government of toppled former president Omar al-Bashir has issued a wide-ranging order to prosecute members of Sudan's ex-ruling party following days of violent protests across the country. Posted early on Thursday, the decree directed state governors to take action through the public prosecutor against "all leaders of the dissolved National Congress Party, and its active cadres and the leaders of its facades". Military generals ousted hardline Islamist Bashir in April 2019 and now rule in a fragile transitional arrangement with political parties that were part of the uprising against him. Over the…
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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia closes camps after reports of attacks

Ethiopia closes camps after reports of attacks

NEWS
TWO camps in Ethiopia's Tigray region housing Eritrean refugees have been shut and the occupants relocated, after the United Nations said residents had reported attacks, including by suspected Eritrean troops, authorities said yesterday. The UNHCR refugee agency has called for protection for the residents of the Shimelba and Hitsats camps, which it says were attacked by armed men who killed and abducted refugees. On February 1, it said residents had reported that Eritrean troops had forced some refugees back into Eritrea. Accusations of an Eritrean military presence are one of the most contentious issues in Tigray, where the central government…
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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
F1 driver Alonso in road accident

F1 driver Alonso in road accident

NEWS
SPANISH Formula One driver Fernando Alonso is conscious and awaiting medical tests after being involved in a road accident while cycling in Switzerland, his Alpine team said in a statement yesterday. The 39-year-old double world champion is due to make his Formula One comeback this season after two years out of the sport. Alpine F1 Team Statement pic.twitter.com/ateZJHITxj— Alpine F1 Team (@AlpineF1Team) February 11, 2021
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Connie Ferguson’s moving tribute to her “Sho”

Connie Ferguson’s moving tribute to her “Sho”

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER WITH carefully chosen words that traced their deep love, devotion and a journey of their life, widow Connie Ferguson has paid a tender loving tribute to her late husband, actor, filmmaker and media mogul Shona Ferguson. Connie’s emotional farewell, recorded earlier, was played at Ferguson’s funeral in Johannesburg yesterday, which was attended by family members, actors, actresses and the Minister of Arts, Culture, Sports and Recreation Nathi Mthethwa. Ferguson passed away after a 28-day battle with COVID-19.  In her special message, Connie said: “I never anticipated where we are today. God brought you into my life 20…
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Feb
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Turkey says its troops will stay in Libya

Turkey says its troops will stay in Libya

NEWS
TURKISH troops stationed in Libya will remain there as long as a bilateral military agreement between Ankara and Tripoli is active and Libya's government requests it, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said yesterday. President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier this week that Turkey would discuss withdrawing its troops, who Ankara says are providing military training to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) if other foreign powers are withdrawn first. In an interview with state broadcaster TRT Haber, Kalin said Turkish companies would also play an active role in the efforts to rebuild war-torn Libya, adding that Ankara would provide support to the…
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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria issues warning on planned protest

Nigeria issues warning on planned protest

NEWS
NIGERIA’S information minister called on activists to drop plans for a protest in the commercial capital Lagos over the reopening of the site where demonstrators against police brutality were shot last year, saying it risked being "hijacked by hoodlums". Protesters were shot on October 20 by people witnesses said were soldiers at the toll gate in the affluent Lekki district of Lagos. Rights group Amnesty International said soldiers and police killed at least 12 protesters in Lekki and another district. The military and police have denied involvement. Nationwide protests against police brutality were largely peaceful until the October 20 shooting, which…
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria seizes $54 million in pangolin parts, elephant tusks

Nigeria seizes $54 million in pangolin parts, elephant tusks

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LIBBY GEORGE OFFICIALS in Nigeria - a hub for illegal wildlife trafficking - have seized a record amount of pangolin scales and claws and elephant tusks as the government attempts to combat the trade, the head of customs has disclosed. The seizure, worth 22 billion naira ($54 million), included 17,137 kg of pangolin scales, 44 kg of elephant tusks and 60 kg in pangolin claws, Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali, comptroller-general of customs, said in a statement. Ali said authorities had arrested three foreign nationals and were pursuing a fourth, whom he described as the kingpin of the operation. "The suspects…
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Feb
12
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC confirms two Ebola cases

DRC confirms two Ebola cases

NEWS
FISTON MAHAMBA TWO people have contracted Ebola and died this week in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the health ministry said in a statement. A 60-year-old woman who died on Wednesday in the district of Biena had a link with a woman who also died after contracting Ebola and was married to a survivor of the previous major outbreak, the statement said. Congo's health ministry has deployed a team to the area and is tracing more than 100 contacts of the two women in the health zones of Biena and Katwa, it…
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Apprehension grows in Tunisia

Apprehension grows in Tunisia

NEWS
ANGUS McDOWALL and TAREK AMARA PRESIDENT Kais Saied's delay in announcing a way forward 10 days after he seized executive power is jangling nerves among Tunisians, with friend and foe alike increasingly impatient to see steps towards ending political and economic paralysis. Saied on July 25 dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, froze parliament and said he would govern alongside a new premier. The move prompted critics to accuse him of a coup and raising fears for the future of Tunisia's democratic system. At stake are the rights and freedoms that Tunisians won during a 2011 revolution that ousted the previous…
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Kidnappers demand ransom for 80 pupils

Kidnappers demand ransom for 80 pupils

NEWS
KIDNAPPERS are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School in the state of Kaduna was the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which authorities have attributed to criminal gangs seeking ransom payments. "(Bandits) are asking for one million naira on each of the 80 students remaining with them," Reverend Ite Joseph Hayab told Reuters by telephone. Kidnappers released 28 children last month…
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