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Sep
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Cape Verde ruling is ‘constitutional suicide’

Cape Verde ruling is ‘constitutional suicide’

NEWS
CAPE Verde has committed "constitutional suicide" by allowing the extradition of businessman and envoy Alex Saab to the United States on charges of laundering money for the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Saab's lawyers have said. Saab was on his way to Iran last year to negotiate shipments of fuel and humanitarian food supplies to Venezuela amid U.S. sanctions on the South American country when he was detained at a Cape Verde refuelling stop. The West African nation's highest court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Saab, a Colombian national, should be extradited to the United States.…
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Facebook freezes Venezuela president’s page over COVID-19 misinformation

Facebook freezes Venezuela president’s page over COVID-19 misinformation

WORLD
BRIAN ELLSWORTH FACEBOOK has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said on Saturday. Maduro in January described Carvativir, an oral solution derived from thyme, as a "miracle" medication that neutralizes the coronavirus with no side effects, a claim doctors say is not backed by science. Facebook has taken down a video in which Maduro promotes the medication because it violates a policy against false claims "that something can guarantee prevention from getting COVID-19 or can guarantee recovery…
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Dec
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Venezuela votes for parliament as opposition denounces fraud

Venezuela votes for parliament as opposition denounces fraud

WORLD
BRIAN ELLSWORTH and SARAH KINOSIAN VENEZUELAN have started voting to choose a new congress that the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations call a fraud by President Nicolas Maduro to retake the last state institution, not in the hands of the ruling Socialist Party. The vote is almost certain to return congress to Maduro's allies despite his government struggling with an economy in ruins, aggressive U.S. sanctions that stifle the OPEC nation's oil exports, and the migration of some 5 million citizens. Members of the new congress will have few tools to improve the lives of Venezuelans whose monthly…
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Aug
05
2020
By The African Mirror
Cape Verde court rejects Maduro envoy’s appeal against US extradition

Cape Verde court rejects Maduro envoy’s appeal against US extradition

NEWS
06A court in Cape Verde has rejected an appeal from a detained Colombian businessman seeking to avoid extradition to the United States on money laundering charges, his defence team has said. Alex Saab, who has been working on behalf of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, was arrested in June when a plane he was travelling on landed in the West African island nation. Maduro's government said Saab was travelling as a state "agent" on business to obtain humanitarian supplies to help combat the coronavirus pandemic. The United States last year charged Saab in connection with a bribery scheme to take advantage…
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