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Apr
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopians head home after Yemen migrant life becomes untenable

Ethiopians head home after Yemen migrant life becomes untenable

NEWS
WHEN Ethiopian migrant Jamal Hussein boarded a U.N.-run repatriation flight out of Yemen, he ended a journey through the war-torn country that he had hoped would take him to a better life in wealthy Saudi Arabia. Many more migrants are also calling it quits, reversing a longstanding and often perilous flow out of the Horn of Africa by sea and then north through Yemen into Gulf states for work. Their hopes for better prospects have been thwarted by coronavirus restrictions and the security conditions, leaving them stranded in a country where millions already live on the brink of famine. Dozens…
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Jun
28
2021
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s $3.6-billion crypto scandal

South Africa’s $3.6-billion crypto scandal

NEWS
TIM COCKS LAWYERS for investors in a cryptocurrency exchange in South Africa, which told clients in April their accounts had been hacked, say $3.6 billion has disappeared from the platform and that the two brothers who ran it cannot be traced. If confirmed, Africrypt's losses would rank among the biggest crypto losses yet. For the whole of 2020, losses in the crypto sector through fraud and other crime were $1.9 billion, down from a record of $4.5 billion in 2019, according to crypto intelligence company CipherTrace. Africrypt COO Ameer Cajee said in a letter to clients, dated April 13, that…
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Jun
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Three MSF employees killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Three MSF employees killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

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THREE employees working for the Spanish branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were killed by unknown assailants in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the medical charity has announced. MSF-Spain lost contact with a vehicle carrying the team on Thursday afternoon, it said in a statement. "This morning the vehicle was found empty and a few metres away, their lifeless bodies." "We condemn this attack on our colleagues in the strongest possible terms and will be relentless in understanding what happened," the statement said. It identified the victims as emergency coordinator Maria Hernandez, 35, from Madrid, assistant coordinator Yohannes Halefom Reda, 31, from…
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Apr
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Double tragedy: COVID-19 claims ANC MP, daughter

Double tragedy: COVID-19 claims ANC MP, daughter

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER  ANC MP Jacqueline Mofokeng has died of COVID-19 complications, 24 hours after her daughter succumbed to the same.  Mofokeng, 62, died at home in Centurion, where she had been in quarantine. Her daughter, Thato, 28, passed away  to COVID-19 at a hospital in Pretoria. Mofokeng was a former member of the Gauteng Legislature.  The Mofokeng family has announced that she passed away  in her sleep, a week after testing positive for COVID-19. The family pleaded with her relatives, friends and the community not to visit her home in Irene, Pretoria as there are two members of the…
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Jun
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Cameroon police tear gas residents

Cameroon police tear gas residents

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POLICE in Cameroon fired tear gas yesterday as they clashed with residents fighting eviction from a neighbourhood adjacent to Newton Airport in the country's economic capital Douala. An official said inhabitants of the informal settlement, known locally as Fret Aeroport, were illegally occupying government land and that they would not be compensated. Some residents, many of whom have lived next to the airport for decades despite repeated attempts by the authorities to move them, said they were given less than two days to move out. "This is airport land, the airport has its land title here, and these populations have…
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Apr
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian university students abducted

Nigerian university students abducted

NEWS
GARBA MUHAMMAD Kidnappers killed one person and took an unknown number of students from a university in northwest Nigeria's restive Kaduna state, police said yesterday, in the latest in a series of abductions at educational institutes. Armed groups have repeatedly struck northern Nigerian schools and universities since December, abducting more than 700 students for ransom. The government and security forces have largely been unable to stop the attacks as they struggle to contain worsening violence and criminality across the West African country. The armed kidnappers came on foot and struck Greenfield University in Kaduna at around 8.15 p.m. (1915 GMT)…
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Apr
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma’s legal team quits ahead of corruption trial

Zuma’s legal team quits ahead of corruption trial

NEWS
THE 12-year delay in the trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma looks set to be even longer after his legal team quit three weeks before the start of a trial where he is going to face a plethora of corruption charges. Eric Mabuza, of Eric Mabuza Attorneys, has filed a notice in the Maritzburg High Court, notifying the court of their withdrawal from representing Zuma in the corruption case. The law firm represents Zuma in his other legal battle with the Zondo Commission into state capture, theft and corruption.  Zuma and French arms company Thales are due in…
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Apr
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Chad in turmoil

Chad in turmoil

NEWS
MADJIASRA NAKO and MAHAMAT RAMADANE THE son of Chad's slain leader Idriss Deby took over as president and armed forces commander on Wednesday as rebel forces threatened to march on the capital, deepening the turmoil in a country vital to international efforts to combat Islamist militants in Africa. The political opposition also denounced the military's takeover of control, calling the move a coup d'etat and rejecting its plan for a transition. Labour unions called for a workers' strike. Deby, 68, was killed on Monday on the frontline in a battle against fighters of the Libyan-based Front for Change and Concord…
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Jun
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegalese migrant dives into river to save man

Senegalese migrant dives into river to save man

NEWS
VINCENT WEST WHEN a 72-year-old man fell unconscious into the River Nervion in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, Senegalese migrant Mouhammad Fada Diouf did not hesitate. Diouf, 26, jumped into the river and for 15 minutes kept the man afloat. Other migrants jumped to help him when his strength began to fade until a nearby boat rescued them all. He told Reuters he was with a group of friends near the river on Monday when they saw the man lose his balance and fall into the water, muddied by recent heavy rains. "A lot of people were standing there…
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Apr
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s Sunday train accident killed 23, says public prosecutor

Egypt’s Sunday train accident killed 23, says public prosecutor

NEWS
EGYPT's public prosecutor office has revealed that a train derailing north of Cairo on Sunday had left 23 people dead and 139 injured. The train was heading from Cairo to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura when four carriages derailed at 1:54 p.m. (1154 GMT), about 40 kms (25 miles) north of the capital, Egyptian National Railways said. Authorities had initially said that 11 people were killed and 98 injured. The public prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the detention of 23 people, including the train driver and other railway workers and officials, the statement said. The cause of the accident is…
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