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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Thousands of Central Africans seek refuge in Cameroon

Thousands of Central Africans seek refuge in Cameroon

NEWS
Sitting at the bar of a hotel in Garoua-Boulaï, a small town in eastern Cameroon on the border with the Central African Republic, a middle-aged man makes a series of phone calls. Just a few weeks ago, he was a candidate in legislative elections in the Central African town of Bouar.   Insurgent incursions and violence put an end to his campaign. Together with many other inhabitants of the town, including farmers, merchants and civil servants, he had to flee in the direction of Cameroon.  "Now I'm stuck. The road is blocked," explains the man*, who is now looking for a…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
COVID-19 school closures: Traffickers eye children

COVID-19 school closures: Traffickers eye children

NEWS
KIERAN GUILBERT HUMAN traffickers worldwide are increasingly targeting children and will likely exploit school closures during the coronavirus pandemic to abuse the young, the United Nations said. Children make up a third of trafficking victims who are uncovered - a share that has tripled in the past 15 years, with girls mainly exploited for sex and boys forced into work, a report by the U.N. Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found. About 49,000 victims were detected and reported in total in 2018 - up from 24,000 in 2016 - according to the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, which was based…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma faces new criminal charges

Zuma faces new criminal charges

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE judicial commission into state capture is going toe-to-toe with former president Jacob Zuma, who has declared that he will defy the summons as well as a ruling by the Constitutional Court to appear and testify. The commission, chaired by Deputy President Raymond Zondo, announced yesterday that it will lay criminal charges against Zuma, who on Monday declared that he does not fear being arrested. Zuma made it clear, in a lengthy statement, that he would defy the order by the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, which ruled that he must appear, as summoned,…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Sahel internal displacement tops 2 million as violence surges

Sahel internal displacement tops 2 million as violence surges

NEWS
ON the evening of 31 December, as the hours ticked down to the New Year, 40-year-old Aguiratou Diallo was at home with her four children in their village near the town of Koumbri in northern Burkina Faso, when a group of armed men burst into the courtyard outside.  "They threatened to hurt us if we were still there when they returned the next day. Then they fired into the air to scare us," said Aguiratou, whose husband was away at work at the time. "I was so frightened. The whole family – including my grandmother, aunt, and my husband's brothers…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Ugandan opposition say 3 000 detained or abducted

Ugandan opposition say 3 000 detained or abducted

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party have revealed that around 3,000 of his supporters had been detained or abducted by state agents since November when protests flared over his arrest during a presidential election campaign. The police said they were investigating all reports of disappearances. They have previously said they arrested nearly 600 people in connection with the November unrest, and accused protesters of rioting and looting. Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo and President Yoweri Museveni's spokesman Don Wanyama did not immediately answer telephone calls seeking comment on the assertions. Wine, who is also a pop star,…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Will Smith in Namibia for documentary

Will Smith in Namibia for documentary

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER AMERICAN actor Will Smith has arrived in Namibia to film part of the National Geographic documentary series ‘One Strange Rock’. The Namibian Sun reported that Smith, dressed in a yellow sweat suit and black cap, landed in the capital city of Windhoek, greeted by a red carpet and airport staff. https://twitter.com/namibiansun/status/1356622607953584128?s=20 Smith is in the country as part of the second season of ‘One Strange Rock’, which he has been the host of since it’s premiere in 2018.  The actor’s flight to Namibia included a pitstop in the UAE, where he was pictured with former UFC champion…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Votes for Libya’s interim presidency council

Votes for Libya’s interim presidency council

NEWS
EMMA FARGE and ANGUS McDOWALL PARTICIPANTS in U.N. Libya talks in Switzerland have cast votes on for a new national presidency council to create a transitional government to oversee national elections in December, although no immediate winners emerged. Candidates included the head of Libya's eastern-based House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and Osama Juwaili, a military commander in the west. The candidates for the three-person council must now consult with others to form regional lists which include nominees for prime minister before voting can resume. Attempts to form a temporary government by the talks' 75 participants, chosen by the U.N. last…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo senators move to oust Kabila ally

Congo senators move to oust Kabila ally

NEWS
HEREWARD HOLLAND A majority of senators in the Democratic Republic of Congo filed a petition to oust the leader of the upper house of parliament on Tuesday, the latest move by allies of President Felix Tshisekedi to weaken his predecessor's lingering power. In recent months, Tshisekedi has chipped away at the influence of former President Joseph Kabila, with whom he had an awkward political alliance following a disputed 2018 election. A longtime opponent of Kabila, who governed from 2001-2019, Tshisekedi won office by beating Kabila's chosen successor in a vote observers said another opposition candidate had won. However, the new…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt receives first vaccine

Egypt receives first vaccine

NEWS
EGYPT received its first 50,000-dose shipment of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine this week as part of its programme to vaccinate health workers, the cabinet said yesterday. The cabinet was confirming reports in the local media, which had reported that the consignment arrived on Sunday. State newspaper Al Ahram said Egypt had signed a contract for 20 million AstraZeneca shots from India, although the cabinet statement made no mention of the total order size. Egypt received its first shipment of vaccines developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in December and began vaccinating frontline medical staff against COVID-19 on January 24…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Study suggests Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine less effective against S.African variant

Study suggests Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine less effective against S.African variant

COVID-19
KATE KELLAND THE Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may be less able to protect against infection with a South African variant of the virus that has a worrying mutation, according to results of a British study released yesterday. The preliminary data, which have yet to be peer-reviewed and involve a small number of patients, also suggest a significant proportion of people aged over 80 may not be sufficiently protected against new variants of the virus until they have had two doses of the vaccine, researchers leading the study said. "Of particular concern ... is the emergence of the E484K mutation (found in…
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