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Jul
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria fails to bring separatist to court

Nigeria fails to bring separatist to court

NEWS
CAMILLUS EBOH and ABRAHAM ACHIRGA A Nigerian judge adjourned the treason trial of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu until October after the authorities failed to bring him to court, citing logistical problems. The military considers Kanu's Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which campaigns for secession in southeast Nigeria, a terrorist organization. Kanu was due in Federal High Court to face 11 charges, including treason. The case is one of two on Monday in which Nigerian authorities are seeking to prosecute citizens campaigning for autonomy in different regions of Africa's most populous nation. The cases underline the government's concern over growing discontent…
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Jul
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Opposition leader charged with terrorism-related crimes

Opposition leader charged with terrorism-related crimes

NEWS
A court in Tanzania has charged the leader of the main opposition party with terrorism-related crimes, police have said, following his arrest while preparing for a meeting to discuss proposals for a new constitution. Freeman Mbowe, head of the Chadema party, and 10 others were detained in the city of Mwanza on Wednesday, in what the party said was proof that President Samia Suluhu Hassan was continuing with the authoritarianism of her late predecessor John Magufuli. Jumanne Muliro, Dar es Salaam special zone police commander, said Mbowe had been charged at Dar es Salaam's Kisutu Resident Magistrate's court. "It is…
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Feb
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Sailors describe death threats and forest captivity

Sailors describe death threats and forest captivity

NEWS
FIFTEEN Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey yesterday and the ship's captain described how they faced death threats and were held in a forest during their three-week ordeal. The sailors hugged relatives as they arrived before dawn at Istanbul Airport, where they were greeted by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and other officials, two days after news of their release in Nigeria emerged. "We were in a forest. There were tough conditions. There were constantly armed men at our side," Mustafa Kaya, captain of the ship "Mozart" from which the…
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Feb
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea declares new Ebola outbreak

Guinea declares new Ebola outbreak

NEWS
GUINEA declared a new Ebola outbreak yesterday, as tests came back positive for the virus after at least three people died and four fell ill in the southeast - the first resurgence of the disease there since the world's worst outbreak in 2013-2016. The seven patients fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a burial in Goueke sub-prefecture. Those still alive have been isolated in treatment centres, the health ministry said. It was not clear if the person buried on February 1 had also died of Ebola. She was a nurse at a local health centre who died…
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Feb
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudan accuses Ethiopian forces of crossing border

Sudan accuses Ethiopian forces of crossing border

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ETHIOPIAN forces crossed the border into Sudanese territory in an act of "aggression", Sudan's foreign ministry said in a statement yesterday. "Ethiopia's trespass into Sudanese land is an unfortunate and unacceptable escalation, which could have dangerous repercussions on security and stability in the region," the Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement. Ethiopian foreign ministry officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Clashes erupted late last year between Sudanese and Ethiopian forces over Al-Fashqa, an area settled by Ethiopian farmers which lies on the Sudanese side of a border demarcated at the start of the 20th century. Last month,…
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Feb
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Floods, fighting, famine: Inside South Sudan’s triple crisis

Floods, fighting, famine: Inside South Sudan’s triple crisis

NEWS
SAM MEDNICK PIBOR, South Sudan  Tucked away behind the bend of a swollen river, an hour and a half by motorboat from the region’s main health centre, local residents in the remote South Sudanese village of Lekuangole say their children are starving to death. There’s the three-year-old son of Ngalan Luryen who died of hunger last February after a week hiding in a forest from militiamen. And there’s the nine-year-old grandson of Anna Korok who lost his life in July when conflict split him from his family and left him nothing to eat. “We need food,” Korok told The New…
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Feb
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian police accused of abuse

Tunisian police accused of abuse

NEWS
TAREK AMARA TUNISIAN police took Ahmed Gam from the shop where he worked, accused him of looting during recent protests, and beat him so badly during his detention last month that he lost a testicle, he said. Lying in bed in his parents' home in Bennane, near the coastal city of Monastir, Gam, 21, could not stand without help and cried as he described police beating and burning his genitals. His account was supported, in part, by a hospital report viewed by Reuters. Tunisia is widely seen as the sole relative success story of the 2011 "Arab spring" revolts for…
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Jul
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Help for people, businesses affected by SA unrest

Help for people, businesses affected by SA unrest

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH  Africa has announced several measures aimed at assisting South Africans who have hit economic times because of COVID-19, the recent violence and looting. SA President Cyril Ramaphosa has also announced tax relief measures, expedited insurance claims for insured businesses as well as assistance for uninsured businesses that were left destitute after the looting.  In a special address to the nation, Ramaphosa announced the reinstatement of the Social Relief of Distress grant until March 2022, to help desperate nationals. He said caregivers who receive a Child Support Grant are now eligible for his grant. “We are taking…
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Jul
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Kidnappers release 28 pupils, 81 still held

Kidnappers release 28 pupils, 81 still held

NEWS
KIDNAPPERS who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, 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. A first batch of 28 children was released two days after the raid. Parents told Reuters that 180 students typically attend the school, and that pupils were in the process of sitting…
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