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Apr
05
2024
By The African Mirror
Former South Africa junior international shot dead in hijacking

Former South Africa junior international shot dead in hijacking

NEWS
FORMER South Africa junior international Luke Fleurs, who played for the country’s most popular club Kaizer Chiefs, has been killed in an attempted hijacking in Johannesburg, police officials confirmed. The 24-year-old was shot in the chest at a petrol station on Wednesday night and the assailants drove off in his vehicle. "While waiting to be served by the petrol attendant, he was confronted by two armed males," police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo told reporters, adding no arrests had yet been made. Centre-back Fleurs played every minute for South Africa at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, and that same…
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Mar
31
2024
By The African Mirror
Palestinian teen shot dead during Israeli West Bank raid

Palestinian teen shot dead during Israeli West Bank raid

WORLD
ISRAELI forces shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday, an incident which the Israeli military said was under review. There were confrontations with Israeli forces at the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin city, during a pre-dawn military raid there, the Wafa report said. The Israeli military said several Palestinian gunmen had shot at its troops, who returned fire. A report was later received regarding a Palestinian minor who was killed, the military said. "The circumstances of the incident are under review," it said…
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Jul
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Congo opposition spokesman shot dead months before election

Congo opposition spokesman shot dead months before election

NEWS
THE spokesman for one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition parties was shot dead, authorities said, raising tensions ahead of national elections in December. Video shared on social media purported to show the bullet-ridden body of Cherubin Okende, a former transport minister who was also a member of parliament, slumped inside his car. Reuters has not verified the footage. Firmin Mvonde Mambu, prosecutor general of the Court of Cassation, told reporters that Okende's body was found in a car, secured with a seat belt, with the engine and air conditioning still running. "Death came by gunshot. A gun…
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Jul
13
2023
By The African Mirror
Tax-hike protesters clash with Kenyan police, two shot dead

Tax-hike protesters clash with Kenyan police, two shot dead

NEWS
STONE-THROWING demonstrators clashed with police and two were shot dead, officers on the scene said, in anti-tax protests in cities and towns around Kenya called by opposition leader Raila Odinga. Police fired tear gas to disperse protests in the capital Nairobi, the port city of Mombasa and several other towns, according to Reuters reporters and footage aired on Kenyan television stations. Some of the most intense clashes took place on the expressway linking Nairobi to its international airport, where protesters lit fires and pulled down the flower boxes that usually line the road to use as barricades. Police officers patrolling…
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Jul
05
2023
By The African Mirror
Eight hurt in Palestinian car-ramming, stabbing in Tel Aviv

Eight hurt in Palestinian car-ramming, stabbing in Tel Aviv

WORLD
A Palestinian rammed a pickup truck into pedestrians in Tel Aviv and then went on a stabbing rampage, wounding eight people on Tuesday in an attack claimed by the Hamas militant group. The 20-year-old Palestinian, from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was shot dead by an armed civilian, police said. Israel's Shin Bet security agency said he entered Israel without a permit and had no record of security offences. Hamas claimed him as a member, saying he struck Israel's commercial capital in retaliation for the ongoing military raid in the flashpoint West Bank town of Jenin, in which 10 Palestinians have been killed…
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Jun
06
2023
By EDWARD MCALLISTER and DIADIE BA
Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots

Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots

NEWS
ELHAJI Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal's capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live rounds at protesters. In another, he shared first aid tips for people wounded on the streets. Offline he helped too, showing elderly neighbours how to ease their discomfort from inhaling mouthfuls of tear gas, said his younger brother Djimbala Ba. "He spent his time in the service of others," said Ba, 24, who…
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Jun
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Senegalese riots victim warned of gun violence

Senegalese riots victim warned of gun violence

NEWS
EDWARD MCALLISTER and DIADIE BA ELHAJI Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal's capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live rounds at protesters. In another, he shared first aid tips for people wounded on the streets. Offline he helped too, showing elderly neighbours how to ease their discomfort from inhaling mouthfuls of tear gas, said his younger brother Djimbala Ba. "He spent his time in the service of…
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May
27
2023
By ALI SAWAFTA
Israeli settler kills Palestinian who army says attempted stabbing, amid rise in violence

Israeli settler kills Palestinian who army says attempted stabbing, amid rise in violence

WORLD
AN Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian man who the military said tried to carry out a stabbing attack in a settlement in the occupied West Bank. The incident came as several European countries condemned Israeli demolitions and settler violence in the West Bank, which flared again as Palestinian farmers said Jewish settlers fired at them while they were working on their agricultural land. The military said a suspect infiltrated the gated area in the southern West Bank near the city of Hebron on Friday morning and tried to stab a resident before being "neutralised". There were no Israeli casualties,…
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Feb
14
2023
By The African Mirror
SA rap star’s murder caught on video

SA rap star’s murder caught on video

NEWS
LAUGHTER, hugs and then bullets - death. It's an hour before midnight and the lifeless body of one of South Africa's famous music superstars lay sprawled outside a popular restaurant on one of Durban's famous streets - Florida Road. On the ground, outside Wish restaurant, wearing grey pants and a black t-shirt was AKA, a multi-award winning rap star, gunned down by an assassin minutes after he had dinner with friends.  Moments earlier, the gunman, small framed and wearing a cream wool skull cap, black pants and white sneakers, comes from the back as AKA turns to speak to someone. In…
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Feb
12
2023
By The African Mirror
South Africa mourns rap star shot dead in cold blood

South Africa mourns rap star shot dead in cold blood

NEWS
LAUGHTER, hugs and then bullets - death. It's an hour before midnight and the lifeless body of one of South Africa's famous music superstars lay sprawled outside a popular restaurant on one of Durban's famous streets - Florida Road. On the ground, outside Wish restaurant, wearing grey pants and a black t-shirt was AKA, a multi-award winning rap star, gunned down by an assassin minutes after he had dinner with friends.  Moments earlier, the gunman, small framed and wearing a cream wool skull cap, black pants and white sneakers, comes from the back as AKA turns to speak to someone. In…
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