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Jan

2024

Ugandan LGBT activist in critical condition after stabbing

A prominent LGBT rights activist in Uganda, where sexual minorities say they have faced a wave of abuse since a harsh anti-gay law was enacted last year, was stabbed and is in critical condition, his organisation said. Steven Kabuye was "stabbed to near death by unknown assailants a few meters from our home as he was heading for work this morning", Coloured Voices Media Foundation-Truth to LGBTQ Uganda, said on the social media platform X. Coloured Voices shared a video that showed Kabuye writhing in pain with an apparent gushing wound on his wrist and a knife protruding from his…

Dec

2023

By The African Mirror

Stowaway found in airplane undercarriage at Paris airport in critical condition

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A stowaway was found alive but in critical condition in the undercarriage bay of an Air Algeria aeroplane at Paris Orly airport, a security source briefed on the matter told Reuters. The person was in a life-threatening condition and was being treated at a nearby hospital, the source said. The plane was coming from the Western Algerian town of Oran, a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Paris. Stowaways in the unpressurised wheel-houses and cargo holds of planes can face temperatures of between minus 50 Celsius and 60 Celsius as well as a lack of oxygen. In 2019, the body of a suspected…

Jul

2023

By The African Mirror

Gaddafi’s son critical in hospital

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HANNIBAL Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been moved from a Lebanese prison to a hospital in "critical condition", Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV reported. Gaddafi went on hunger strike last month in protest at his incarceration without trial since 2015. Citing unidentified sources, Al-Hadath said he had suffered a sharp drop in his blood sugar level. Gaddafi has been charged in Lebanon with concealing information about the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr, a Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim cleric who disappeared while on a trip to Libya in 1978. Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed by rebels in 2011. Thomson Reuters…

Jun

2023

By The African Mirror

Six people in critical condition, one still missing after Paris blast

WORLD

SIX people remained in critical condition and one person was believed still missing, one day after a blast ripped through a street near Paris' historic Latin Quarter, the city's public prosecution office said. "These figures may still change," prosecutor Maylis De Roeck told Reuters in a text message, adding that around 50 people had been injured in the blast, which set buildings ablaze and caused the front of one to collapse onto the street. Flames and smoke erupt from a building following a gas explosion in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, France June 21, 2023, in this screen grab obtained…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Landslide kills at least 8 people in eastern Congo

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A landslide crushed at least eight people and seriously injured nine others near an artisanal mine in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official told Reuters. The wounded are in critical condition and receiving treatment at a local health facility, the administrator of Fizi territory in South Kivu Province, Aime Kawaya Mutipula, said by phone. Landslides are relatively common in the hilly slopes of eastern Congo where heavy rains can saturate and loosen the soil. But they are more likely to occur if the soil has been disturbed by mining, tree-felling or construction. In December, intense rains in…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

‘He’s OK’: Tanzania denies Magufuli is sick

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DUNCAN MIRIRI and NYASHA NYAUNGWA TANZANIA’S President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, two officials have said, after reports that he had flown abroad in critical condition with COVID-19. Magufuli, 61, is Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptic. He has not been seen in public since February 27. Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who left for Belgium after disputing his election defeat to Magufuli last year, has said the president was flown to the private Nairobi Hospital in neighbouring Kenya and then to India in a coma. However, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa denied that, blaming the narrative on…