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May
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Kenya to shut two camps with 410 000 refugees

Kenya to shut two camps with 410 000 refugees

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KENYA has told the United Nations it will shut by June 2022 two camps holding over 430,000 refugees who fled from wars in the east and Horn of Africa, adding it planned to repatriate some and give others residency. The interior ministry made the announcement on Twitter about five weeks after ordering the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps and giving the United Nations two weeks to present a plan to carry this out. Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi met on Thursday in Nairobi and a joint team will be formed…
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May
01
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Famine looms in southern Madagascar’

‘Famine looms in southern Madagascar’

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STEPHANIE NEBEHAY FAMINE threatens southern Madagascar after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, reducing people to eating locusts and leaves, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The lives of children are in danger, especially those under five years old whose malnutrition rates have reached "alarming levels", Amer Daoudi, senior director of global WFP operations, said by videolink from Madagascar's capital Antananarivo. At least 1.35 million people are in need of food assistance in the region, but the WFP is only reaching 750,000 with "half-rations" due to financial constraints, he said. "Famine looms in southern Madagascar as communities…
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May
01
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. lifts Ebola-related DRC travel restrictions

U.S. lifts Ebola-related DRC travel restrictions

NEWS
THE Biden administration yesterday lifted travel restrictions for U.S. visitors who have recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but left them in place for Guinea travellers over address Ebola concerns. In March, the Homeland Security Department (DHS) said travelers who had been in the two central African countries within the past 21 days must fly to one of six U.S. airports - New York-JFK, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington Dulles, Newark or Los Angeles. DHS said "the potential risk for Ebola virus exposure in the DRC has greatly diminished."
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Jun
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian police fire teargas to break up protests

Nigerian police fire teargas to break up protests

NEWS
SEUN SANNI and AFOLABI SOTUNDE POLICE fired teargas and detained several demonstrators in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja on Saturday during protests over the country's worsening security situation. Anger over mass kidnappings-for-ransom, a decade-long Islamist insurgency and a crackdown on protesters in Lagos last October has fuelled demands for the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to do more to tackle violence and insecurity. There was a heavy police presence in the country's two major cities as several hundred people gathered to protest on Democracy Day, which marks Nigeria's move to civilian rule more than 20 years ago. Reuters…
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Jun
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Eritrean forces accused of deliberately starving Tigray

Eritrean forces accused of deliberately starving Tigray

NEWS
KATHARINE HOURELD and GIULIA PARAVICINI THE northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN official alleges that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. More than 350,000 of Tigray's nearly 6 million people are living in famine conditions, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and global aid groups first reported by Reuters on Thursday. Nearly 2 million others are one step away…
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Jun
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian police clash with youths protesting against abuses

Tunisian police clash with youths protesting against abuses

NEWS
TUNISIAN police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital's Sejoumi neighbourhood after video of police stripping and beating a young man triggered widespread anger. The video prompted criticism from political parties and human rights organizations. Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said the officers involved had been removed from duty and that the unacceptable incident was being investigated. Late on Friday, witnesses told Reuters protesters blocked roads, burned tires and threw stones at police, and that officers responded with tear gas and chased demonstrators through the streets of Sejoumi. The protesters shouted slogans against the police and the government.…
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Jun
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Mali restores ousted defence minister

Mali restores ousted defence minister

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MALI's transitional government announced on Friday it had restored Colonel Sadio Camara as defence minister after his removal from office was one of the factors that led to a coup that toppled President Bah Ndaw last month. Camara was one of the leaders of an earlier coup in August last year that ousted then-President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Military officers detained Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane on May 24, hours after they announced a new government that excluded Camara and another colonel involved in the Aug. 2020 coup, Modibo Kone, who had been in charge of security. The appointment of…
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Jun
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Gabon, Ghana elected to U.N. Security Council

Gabon, Ghana elected to U.N. Security Council

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THE U.N. General Assembly elected Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term starting on January 1, 2022. All five countries ran unopposed for a spot on the 15-member body, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security. They will replace Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam. To ensure geographical representation, seats are allocated to regional groups. But even if candidates are running unopposed in their group, they still need to win the support of more than two-thirds of the U.N. General Assembly. Ghana…
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Jun
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Killer, rapist handed two life terms

Killer, rapist handed two life terms

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A South African man who raped and stabbed a university student 90 times has been handed two life terms.  Aubrey Manaka, who pleaded guilty to the 2019 crimes, was given a life sentence each of the murder and rape of Precious Ramabulana, who was a student at the Capricon TVET College in Limpopo. Manaka was also sentenced to eight years for housebreaking with an intention to rape and 15 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances. In his plea, Manaka said he wanted to propose love to the Ramabulana (21). He claimed that it was love at first…
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Apr
25
2021
By The African Mirror
No justice for victims of 2020 Mali protests, coup

No justice for victims of 2020 Mali protests, coup

NEWS
ALISON KENTISH IT has been about a year since anti-government demonstrations and a coup in Mali, which saw 18 people, including a 12-year-old boy being killed. But there has been no justice for the families of those injured and killed by defence and security forces during last year’s May to August protests. Amnesty International released the findings of a report into injuries and fatalities that occurred titled “Killed, wounded, and forgotten? Accountability for the killings during demonstrations and the coup in Mali”. Following field and remote interviews with victims’ families, civil society representatives, journalists and members of the judiciary, it…
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