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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
WHO classifies India variant as being of global concern

WHO classifies India variant as being of global concern

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY and EMMA FARGE The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily. The B.1.617 variant is the fourth variant to be designated as being of global concern and requiring heightened tracking and analysis. The others are those first detected in Britain, South Africa and Brazil. "We are classifying this as a variant of concern at a global level," Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead on COVID-19, told a briefing. "There is some…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms

Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms

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ANGE ABOA POLICE in Ivory Coast have rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom were trafficked from neighbouring Burkina Faso, authorities said. The West African country is the world's top cocoa producer and has close to 1 million children working in the sector despite years of efforts to end child labour. At a care centre in the southwestern region of Soubre, one of the rescued children told Reuters his father had brought him from Burkina Faso at the age of 13 to work on his uncle's cocoa plantation and had left him there. "I've been working in…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Female peacekeeper killed in DRC

Female peacekeeper killed in DRC

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A female peacekeeper from Malawi was killed in an attack by an Islamist militia in eastern Congo's North Kivu province yesterday, the U.N. and the Malawian government said. A local civil rights group said separately that fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist armed group with Ugandan origins, attacked the village of Kilia, around 18km southeast of Beni in the province, killing at least five people. It was not clear if that figure included the peacekeeper. "A peacekeeper was killed in an attack by alleged ADF in the Beni region," said MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, which has…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Armed robbers kill eight in Burundi

Armed robbers kill eight in Burundi

NEWS
GUNMEN belonging to a gang of armed robbers shot dead eight people including a senior military officer in an ambush on four cars travelling on a main road in Burundi, police said. The attack occurred late on a road between Bujumbura, the commercial capital of the central African country, and its political capital Gitenga, police said in a Twitter post. Among the dead were a lieutenant colonel and a child he was travelling with. "Eight passengers dead, several injured and property stolen from them," police tweeted. A government worker in the area who did not wish to be named because…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria restricts street protests

Algeria restricts street protests

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ALGERIA will bar any protests that do not have prior approval, it said on Sunday, a move apparently aimed at the weekly mass demonstrations that ousted a veteran president in 2019 but have continued to demand a more thorough purge of the ruling elite. The Interior Ministry said all protests would need a permit that specified the names of organisers and a start and finishing time for the demonstrations. "Failure to comply with these procedures will result in violating the law and the constitution, which denies the legitimacy of the march, and it will be necessary to deal with it…
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Jun
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Air strike kills 43 in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Air strike kills 43 in Ethiopia’s Tigray

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KATHARINE HOURELD AN air strike killed at least 43 people in the town of Togoga in Ethiopia's Tigray region today, a medical official told Reuters, after residents said new fighting had flared in recent days north of the regional capital Mekelle. Ethiopian military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane did not confirm or deny the incident. He said air strikes were a common military tactic and that government forces do not target civilians. The bomb hit a market at around 1:00 p.m., according to a woman who said her husband and two-year-old daughter had been injured. "We didn't see the plane, but…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
More troops to Mozambique

More troops to Mozambique

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PORTUGAL will send a further 60 troops to Mozambique as part of a new cooperation agreement aimed at helping the country tackle an Islamic State-linked insurgency in its north, Portugal's defence minister Joao Cravinho said yesterday. Mozambique has been grappling with the insurgency in its northern-most province of Cabo Delgado since 2017. But militants have massively stepped up their violence in the past year, taking a hefty toll on civilians and bringing a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project run by oil giant Total to a grinding halt. The agreement, which runs until 2026, will see Portugal increase its number…
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Jun
23
2021
By The African Mirror
$500 million for victims of Ethiopian air crash

$500 million for victims of Ethiopian air crash

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DAVID SHEPARDSON A $500 million U.S. victim compensation fund for the relatives of 346 people killed in two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes opened yesterday, the claim administrators told Reuters. The fund is part of a settlement with the Justice Department. Boeing Co in January agreed to pay $500 million to compensate the heirs, relatives and beneficiaries of the passengers who died in Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2018 and 2019. Each eligible family will receive nearly $1.45 million and money will be paid on a rolling basis as claim forms are submitted and completed,…
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Jun
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Court says Nigeria cannot prosecute over Twitter use

Court says Nigeria cannot prosecute over Twitter use

NEWS
A West African court has said that Nigerian authorities could not prosecute people for using Twitter while it considered a suit seeking to overturn a ban on its use, a non-governmental group that initiated the legal action said. The government on June 4 indefinitely suspended Twitter, two days after the social media platform removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists, which Twitter said violated its rules. Soci-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a Nigerian NGO, along with other groups, went to court to fight the ban, arguing that it was a violation of human…
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Jun
23
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC seizes gold worth $1.9 million

DRC seizes gold worth $1.9 million

NEWS
CONGOLESE authorities have seized 31 kg of gold, worth around $1.9 million, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the country's northeast, in a rare loss for smugglers who fraudulently bring tonnes of Congolese gold into the global market each year. Lieutenant Jean de Dieu Musongela, head of the military prosecutor's office in Mambasa, said on Tuesday the 31 ingots, which would have entered the open market after being smuggled through a neighbouring country, came from Muchacha, which he described as a mine in the Okapi reserve. Mining in the reserve - a UNESCO World Heritage site, home to okapi, forest…
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