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Jun
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Western Sahara independence leader lands in Algiers amid diplomatic row

Western Sahara independence leader lands in Algiers amid diplomatic row

NEWS
THE leader of the Western Sahara independence movement, Brahim Ghali, landed in Algiers early yesterday after his hospitalization in Spain for more than a month triggered a diplomatic row between Spain and Morocco. Brahim Ghali speaking in 2019. PIcture: Fotos Presidencia El Salvador "He arrived safe and sound," said Jalil Mohamed, the Polisario Front's spokesman in Spain. Ghali flew to Algeria from Pamplona in northern Spain at 1:40 a.m. local time on Wednesday on an officially chartered private plane, the spokesman said. Ghali, who was suffering a serious bout of COVID-19, had been admitted to a Spanish hospital in April…
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May
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Macron seeks forgiveness over Rwanda genocide

Macron seeks forgiveness over Rwanda genocide

NEWS
CLEMENT UWIRIGIYIMANA FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country's role in the Rwandan genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali today, seeking to reset relations after years of Rwandan accusations that France was complicit in the 1994 atrocities. "Only those who went through that night can perhaps forgive, and in doing so give the gift of forgiveness," Macron said at the Gisozi genocide memorial, where more than 250,000 victims are buried. Rows of skulls lie there in a mass tomb and the names of the victims are inscribed on a black wall. "I hereby humbly…
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Jun
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Chad, C.A.R call for UN probe into border incident

Chad, C.A.R call for UN probe into border incident

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CHAD and the Central African Republic (CAR) has called on the United Nations and African Union to investigate an incident at a border post in which at least six Chadian soldiers were killed by Central African troops, a joint statement said Tuesday. The incident threatens to escalate tensions between the two countries since Chad participated in African efforts to stabilise CAR in 2013, which has been wracked by rebel insurgencies ever since. "The two parties have recognised the gravity of the situation and stress the urgency of clarifying the circumstances in which this attack was carried out," the countries' foreign…
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May
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Thousands flee Goma after DRC warns of possible new eruption

Thousands flee Goma after DRC warns of possible new eruption

NEWS
DJAFFAR Al KATANTY THOUSANDS of people scrambled to flee the Congolese city of Goma yesterday, some picking their way across landscapes scarred with lava after officials said a second volcanic eruption could happen any time. Magma, the molten rock that normally stays beneath the earth's crust, had been detected beneath the city and the adjoining Lake Kivu, Constant Ndima Kongba, the military governor of North Kivu province, said, citing seismic and ground deformation data. "Given these scientific observations, an eruption on land or under the lake cannot be ruled out at present, and it could occur with very little or…
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May
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Serial rapist handed 5 life times plus 988 years

Serial rapist handed 5 life times plus 988 years

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A  serial rapist whose reign of terror around Pretoria, South Africa, lasted five years and whose victims included a 14-year-old girl was yesterday sentenced to five life terms plus 988 years in prison. Sello Abraham Maponya was convicted of 72 counts of rape, robbery with aggravating circumstances, housebreaking and assault, offences he committee between 2014 ad 2019. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said in some instances he broke into the victim's house, robbed them and then proceeded to rape them, either alone or with accomplices.  Maponya was arrested on March 20, 2019 in Mamelodi, outside Pretoria for…
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May
28
2021
By The African Mirror
No military response to Moz insurgency

No military response to Moz insurgency

NEWS
A bloc of southern African nations has said it will work to shore up Mozambique's security forces as they battle an escalating insurgency linked to Islamic State, but made no mention of proposals for military intervention. Members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), including neighbouring South Africa, have favoured the idea of regional military action as the violence has worsened and the threat to regional stability has grown. Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi, however, has said in the past Mozambique should handle certain aspects of the response alone for reasons of sovereignty, and resisted suggestions of foreign boots on the…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s President will no longer appear before graft inquiry

South Africa’s President will no longer appear before graft inquiry

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SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer appear for a second round of testimony before a graft inquiry, administrators of the commission into state corruption have said. Ramaphosa was due to appear before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture on May 31 and June 1, in his capacity as state president and his tenure as deputy president under Jacob Zuma from 2014 to 2018. He previously appeared in mid-April as the current leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in a rare case of a sitting president giving evidence on recent alleged acts of wrongdoing…
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May
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia’s PM commits to free, fair polls

Somalia’s PM commits to free, fair polls

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH SOMALIA’S Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has committed himself to free and fair polls and signed an agreement with regional presidents to allow indirect elections to take place after delays had prompted a crisis. Clan elders were meant to have selected lawmakers in December, who in turn were due to elect a new president on February 8. Both procedures failed to take place, amid disputes over issues that included the composition of an election commission that would supervise the voting. The disagreements caused concern that clans could turn on each other and that the al Shabaab Islamist group,…
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May
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Mali president and prime minister freed by military after resigning

Mali president and prime minister freed by military after resigning

NEWS
PAUL LORGERIE and TIEMOKO DIALLO MALI’S ousted interim president and prime minister have been freed after they were detained by the military and resigned, an aide to the vice president has announced. Interim president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were arrested and taken to a military base outside the capital on Monday, triggering a crisis in the West African country. International powers including the United States and military ally France, worried about worsening security in Mali and its neighbours, have condemned the arrests and threatened sanctions. The two men resigned from their posts while in detention on Wednesday.…
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Jun
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian police hunt for 200 kidnapped children

Nigerian police hunt for 200 kidnapped children

NEWS
NIGERIAN authorities have revealed that about 200 children had been seized in the latest school kidnapping in its violent north but they ruled out securing their freedom by paying a ransom. Police were trying to track the route the kidnappers had taken with the children, who were seized in a raid on an Islamic school in north-central Niger state on Sunday, a local government official told Reuters. A warplane was also flying over the area to try to spot them, the official said. Gunmen on motorbikes attacked the town of Tegina on Sunday afternoon. One person was shot dead during…
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