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Apr

2024

By ALEXANDRA VALENCIA and BRENDAN O'BOYLE

Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador after arrest of ex-VP

ECUADOREAN authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas, seizing him from the Mexican embassy and prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral relations. Glas, convicted twice for corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, a request Mexico granted earlier on Friday. Police forcefully entered Mexico's embassy in Quito before making the arrest, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador posted on X. The Ecuadorean president's office said in a statement it had arrested Glas, who was vice president under the leftist government of Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017. There was a heavy military…

Jul

2022

By The African Mirror

Shinzo Abe’s assassin used a handmade firearm

WORLD

SATOSHI SUGIYAMA and CHANG-RAN KIM FORMER Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader of modern Japan, was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country where guns are tightly controlled and political violence almost unthinkable. Abe, 67, was pronounced dead around five and a half hours after the shooting in the city of Nara. Police arrested a 41-year-old man and said the weapon was a homemade gun. "I am simply speechless over the news of Abe's death," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Abe's protege, told reporters. Earlier, as Abe still lay in hospital where doctors tried to revive…

Jul

2022

By The African Mirror

Patrice Lumumba’s tooth represents plunder, resilience and reparation

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

PATRICE LUMUMBA is the hero of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s truncated bid for complete independence. He was assassinated by local counter-revolutionary forces with the help of the CIA and Belgian authorities in 1961. Since then, all over the developing world, Lumumba’s name has come to stand for defiance against colonialism and imperialism. Author SANYA OSHA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town The manner of his death was particularly distressing. He was humiliated and tortured before he was murdered. His body was then doused with acid to facilitate decomposition. A Belgian official reportedly kept…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

Haitian assassins falsely claimed to be U.S. drug agents, envoy to U.S. says

WORLD

DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS and DOYINSOLA OLADIPO GUNMEN who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise falsely identified themselves as agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Haitian ambassador to the United States has said, citing video footage the government has in its possession. "No way they were DEA agents," Bocchit Edmond told Reuters in an interview hours after Moise was shot dead and his wife was wounded by unidentified gunmen in their private residence overnight, stirring fears of a breakdown in order in the impoverished Caribbean nation, already reeling from rampant gang violence and facing a constitutional crisis. People walk past…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

Libyan ‘war crimes commander’ killed

NEWS

GUNMEN assassinated an eastern Libyan commander wanted for war crimes yesterday, medics said, underscoring the risks of violent escalation on the ground that poses the biggest challenge to Libya's new unity government. 06Mahmoud al-Werfalli was shot from a car outside a hospital in Benghazi alongside two of his bodyguards, military sources said, amid growing friction between rival factions in eastern Libya. Werfalli was a commander in an elite unit attached to Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), a coalition of forces that has dominated eastern Libya in recent years. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has indicted Werfalli…