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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
India’s COVID-19 emergency is wake-up call to Africa -AU health chief

India’s COVID-19 emergency is wake-up call to Africa -AU health chief

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THE raging state of the COVID-19 pandemic in India is a wake-up call for Africa that its governments and citizens must not let their guards down, the African Union's disease control agency has warned. African nations generally do not have sufficient numbers of health care workers, hospital beds, oxygen supplies, and the continent of 1.3 billion would be even more overwhelmed than India if cases surged in a similar way, said John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. "We are watching with total disbelief...What is happening in India cannot be ignored by our continent," he…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Parents of Nigeria kidnap victims plead for help

Parents of Nigeria kidnap victims plead for help

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LIBBY GEORGE and BOSAN YAKUSAK WHEN Linda Peter last spoke to her daughter, the brief phone call left her relieved the teenager was alive but distraught because she could not pay any ransom demanded. Peter's 18-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was among 39 students abducted by gunmen on March 11 from a forestry college in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna. The captors, who called from the teenager's phone, threatened to kill the male captives and force females into marriage but did not specify the ransom sum sought. "The government is not doing anything to help these children," said Peter, a widow…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
How does a heart break twice?

How does a heart break twice?

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CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE HOW does a heart break twice? To still be immersed in grief, barely breathing again, and then to be plunged callously back into a sorrow you cannot even articulate.  How can my mother be gone forever, and so soon after my father?  My warm, loving, funny, kind, quick-witted, beautiful mother.  Unconditional supporter and cheerleader of her children, fun and funny, source of delicious sarcasm, style icon, so sharply observant she never missed a thing.  She made history as the first female registrar of the University of Nigeria. She was a permanent board member of the Anambra State…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
‘CR17 millions were not used to buy votes’

‘CR17 millions were not used to buy votes’

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has today given an insight into the millions that were pumped into an internal election campaign which ended with him being elected as president of the governing party. Ramaphosa has flatly denied that the millions donated to his campaign were used to buy votes. On the 2nd day of his testimony at the Zondo Commission into state capture, Ramaphosa said those who managed his campaign - generally referred to as the CR17 campaign - took a deliberate decision to keep the identity of the donors from him so that he was not beholden…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Chadian army battles rebels in northern town

Chadian army battles rebels in northern town

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MAHAMAT RAMADANE CHAD’S army battled with rebels yesterday near the town of Nokou, about 20 km (12 miles) from where former president Idriss Deby was fatally wounded 10 days ago, rebels and the army said. Deby was killed on April 19 as he visited troops fighting Libya-based rebels from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), which opposed his 30-year rule. A military council headed by his son took control of Chad after his death, a move which opposition politicians have condemned as a coup. The rebels issued a statement on Thursday saying they had taken control of…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s basic income scheme aims to ease economic pain

Sudan’s basic income scheme aims to ease economic pain

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NAFISA ELTAHIR and ELTAYEB SIDDING FOR Intisar Altayib, who ekes out a living drawing henna tattoos in Khartoum, soaring prices in Sudan mean running up tabs at local stores and cutting back on evening feasts during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. She is one of millions struggling through an economic crisis that has deepened as Sudan tries to emerge from decades of isolation and conflict. Inflation has risen to more than 340% and there are shortages of everything from power to medicines. To ease the pain of reforms the government is introducing a donor-funded scheme that aims to provide…
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Apr
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Italian prosecutors ask judge to try Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

Italian prosecutors ask judge to try Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

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CRISPIAN BALMER ITALIAN prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to have four senior members of Egypt's security services sent for trial over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. Regeni, a postgraduate student at Britain's Cambridge University, disappeared in the Egyptian capital in January 2016. His body was found almost a week later and a post mortem examination showed he had been tortured before his death. Italian and Egyptian prosecutors investigated the case together, but the two sides later fell out and came to very different conclusions. The Rome prosecutors have…
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Apr
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Ghana sends in army to enforce mining ban

Ghana sends in army to enforce mining ban

NEWS
CHRISTIAN AKORLIE GHANA’S military has launched a nationwide operation to clear illegal miners out of its water bodies, the West African country's lands minister said yesterday. Two hundred soldiers were deployed yesterday morning to lakes, rivers and waterways in the country's central and western regions to "remove all persons and logistics involved in mining", a statement said. Pollution from mining has contaminated water sources across the country with mercury and heavy metals, raising the costs of water treatment and limiting access to drinking water, according to Ghana's water utility agency. Ghana is one of Africa's largest gold producers, with gold…
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Apr
29
2021
By The African Mirror
’Mozambique military deployment must include plan to protect human rights abuses’

’Mozambique military deployment must include plan to protect human rights abuses’

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) must ensure that the military deployment to the troubled region in Mozambique is accompanied by a transparent and comprehensive plan to prevent human rights abuses.  The call has been made by the In Transformation Initiative (ITI), which is led by Mathews Phosa and Roelf Meyer, the two former politicians who were involved in the negotiations for the new South African dispensation and have been involved in peace settlements in Ireland, Myanmar and other countries. In a statement, the ITI said: “We welcome the decision of the SADC Double Troika to take decisive steps to…
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Apr
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Irish conservationist killed in Burkina Faso

Irish conservationist killed in Burkina Faso

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IRELAND’S government has confirmed that an Irish citizen, wildlife NGO founder Rory Young, was killed by unidentified gunmen along with two Spanish journalists in an ambush in Burkina Faso this week. The three foreigners and a member of the Burkinabe armed forces went missing on Monday after an attack on a convoy of security forces, forest rangers and expatriates, according to Burkina Faso's government. "Mr. Young was part of a group that on Monday morning was attacked by unknown assailants in the eastern part of Burkina Faso," the Irish foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry has been in…
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