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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Africa prays for hospitalised Kaunda (97)

Africa prays for hospitalised Kaunda (97)

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ZAMBIAN president Edgar Lungu has led Zambians and Africa in prayers for Dr Kenneth Kaunda, the country’s 97-year-old founding president who has been admitted into hospital for suspected COVID-19 related illness. “I call on the nation to pray for our beloved KK who is hospitalised that God may touch him with his healing hand. He stood up for this great nation as its most critical moment and so we can all stand up for him in his moment of weakness,” said Lungu. The Zambian president assured the nation that the government was doing all it can to ensure that Kaunda…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Making Argan oil for the beauty industry

Making Argan oil for the beauty industry

NEWS
IN the arid mountains of southern Morocco, local women harvest argan oil, a natural product they have long used in cooking but which has become highly prized by the global beauty industry as an anti-ageing skin treatment and restorative for hair. Most argan oil is produced by local cooperatives of Amazigh-speaking Berber women around the cities of Agadir, Essaouira and Taroudant where the argan tree, which bears small green fruit resembling an olive, is common. For centuries the oil, among the most expensive in the world, has been extracted by drying argan fruit in the sun, peeling and mashing the…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
MTN warns of service disruption in Nigeria

MTN warns of service disruption in Nigeria

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CHIJIOKE OHUOCHA MTN's service in Nigeria could be disrupted as a result of rising insecurity in different parts of the country, the local unit of South Africa's telecoms group said yesterday. MTN Nigeria is the first company to acknowledge a possible disruption to its services due to insecurity in Africa's most populous nation. Nigeria faces increased insecurity across the country -- ranging from mass abductions at schools, kidnappings for ransom, armed conflict between herdsmen and farmers, armed robberies and various insurgencies -- a drag on growth and job creation. "Sadly, we must inform you that with the rising insecurity in…
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May
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Succession, inheritance wars bedevil royal family

Succession, inheritance wars bedevil royal family

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE Royal family leading South Africa’s 12 million Amazulu is fighting wars on two fronts in the South African courts. In the first case, Queen Sibongile Dlamini, one of the six widows of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini has turned to the courts in an effort to get 50 percent of his estate. The 5th widow and regent, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu passed away and will be buried on Thursday. In the second case Queen Dlamini’s two daughters have separately approached the courts to have King Zwelithini’s will set aside because they allege that his signature was forged.…
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May
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Attackers kill 16 soldiers in southwest Niger

Attackers kill 16 soldiers in southwest Niger

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UNIDENTIFIED gunmen have killed 16 soldiers and wounded six others in an ambush in southwest Niger, two security sources said yesterday. The attack on an army patrol occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Tahoua Region of the West African country, near where raids killed 137 civilians in March. It is unclear who carried out the attack, but the area is overrun by jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State. Those groups have killed hundreds of soldiers and civilians since 2018 when they began broadening their reach beyond bases in Mali. Now, large areas of Mali, Niger and…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Ten Nigerian captives freed by militants

Ten Nigerian captives freed by militants

NEWS
LANRE OLA TEN people who had been held captive by Islamist militants were freed this week in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, three security sources and two close associates of those released told Reuters. The people, including aid workers, had been taken by Boko Haram over the past year, the sources said. They were released at around noon (1100 GMT) on Monday and were taken to a hospital in Borno state capital Maiduguri. The sources said the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a rival militant group to Boko Haram, had released the hostages after finding them in a Boko Haram…
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May
03
2021
By The African Mirror
SA to clamp down on captive lion breeding

SA to clamp down on captive lion breeding

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SOUTH AFRICA will clamp down on captive lion breeding after a review panel concluded the industry risked the conservation of wild lions and harmed tourism, the environment minister said yesterday. In the nearly 600-page report, the panel appointed by the ministry in 2019 recommended that South Africa end the breeding and keeping of captive lions for economic gain, including hunting them and tourist interactions such as cub petting. The panel also recommended an immediate moratorium on the trade of lion derivatives such as bones, which they found to pose major risks to wild lion populations in South Africa. Barbara Creecy,…
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Jun
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Confirmed: death sentence for 12 Egyptian activists

Confirmed: death sentence for 12 Egyptian activists

NEWS
EGYPT’S highest civilian court has upheld death sentences against 12 senior Muslim Brotherhood figures over a 2013 sit-in which ended with security forces killing hundreds of protesters, judicial sources said. The ruling, which cannot be appealed against, means the 12 men could face execution pending approval by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. They include Abdul Rahman Al-Bar, commonly described as the group's mufti or top religious scholar, Mohamed El-Beltagi, a former member of parliament, and Osama Yassin, a former minister. Many Muslim Brotherhood figures have been sentenced to death in other cases related to the unrest that followed the military's ousting…
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Jun
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s Twitter ban leaves businesses in the lurch

Nigeria’s Twitter ban leaves businesses in the lurch

NEWS
NNEKA CHILE LAGOS-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than 500,000 naira ($1,219) worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week. Now, with the site suspended by the Nigerian government, Egemonu does not know how she will cope. "Social media is where I eat," she told Reuters. "I depend on social media for my livelihood." Scores of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa's most populous nation - and largest economy - are reeling from the indefinite suspension of the social media site. Nigeria announced the suspension on June 4, days after the platform removed a post from President…
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Jun
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Dance helps Congo’s rape survivors cope with trauma

Dance helps Congo’s rape survivors cope with trauma

NEWS
DJAFFAR AL KATANTY  IT was the silence of the traumatised young women she saw before her that convinced dance teacher Amina Lusambo she must do something to help. So she set up dance sessions for rape survivors at a rehabilitation centre attached to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in eastern Congo, which according to hospital authorities has treated more than 60,000 survivors of sexual violence in its some 20 years of operation. Congo's eastern borderlands have remained gripped by violence since the official end of a civil war in 2003, with armed groups fighting for land, resources and self-protection. "I started…
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