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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms

Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms

NEWS
ANGE ABOA POLICE in Ivory Coast have rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom were trafficked from neighbouring Burkina Faso, authorities said. The West African country is the world's top cocoa producer and has close to 1 million children working in the sector despite years of efforts to end child labour. At a care centre in the southwestern region of Soubre, one of the rescued children told Reuters his father had brought him from Burkina Faso at the age of 13 to work on his uncle's cocoa plantation and had left him there. "I've been working in…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Female peacekeeper killed in DRC

Female peacekeeper killed in DRC

NEWS
A female peacekeeper from Malawi was killed in an attack by an Islamist militia in eastern Congo's North Kivu province yesterday, the U.N. and the Malawian government said. A local civil rights group said separately that fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist armed group with Ugandan origins, attacked the village of Kilia, around 18km southeast of Beni in the province, killing at least five people. It was not clear if that figure included the peacekeeper. "A peacekeeper was killed in an attack by alleged ADF in the Beni region," said MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, which has…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Armed robbers kill eight in Burundi

Armed robbers kill eight in Burundi

NEWS
GUNMEN belonging to a gang of armed robbers shot dead eight people including a senior military officer in an ambush on four cars travelling on a main road in Burundi, police said. The attack occurred late on a road between Bujumbura, the commercial capital of the central African country, and its political capital Gitenga, police said in a Twitter post. Among the dead were a lieutenant colonel and a child he was travelling with. "Eight passengers dead, several injured and property stolen from them," police tweeted. A government worker in the area who did not wish to be named because…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria restricts street protests

Algeria restricts street protests

NEWS
ALGERIA will bar any protests that do not have prior approval, it said on Sunday, a move apparently aimed at the weekly mass demonstrations that ousted a veteran president in 2019 but have continued to demand a more thorough purge of the ruling elite. The Interior Ministry said all protests would need a permit that specified the names of organisers and a start and finishing time for the demonstrations. "Failure to comply with these procedures will result in violating the law and the constitution, which denies the legitimacy of the march, and it will be necessary to deal with it…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
More troops to Mozambique

More troops to Mozambique

NEWS
PORTUGAL will send a further 60 troops to Mozambique as part of a new cooperation agreement aimed at helping the country tackle an Islamic State-linked insurgency in its north, Portugal's defence minister Joao Cravinho said yesterday. Mozambique has been grappling with the insurgency in its northern-most province of Cabo Delgado since 2017. But militants have massively stepped up their violence in the past year, taking a hefty toll on civilians and bringing a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project run by oil giant Total to a grinding halt. The agreement, which runs until 2026, will see Portugal increase its number…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
South Africa warns of ‘vaccine apartheid’ if rich countries hog shots

South Africa warns of ‘vaccine apartheid’ if rich countries hog shots

COVID-19
ALEXANDER WINNING  SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday that if wealthy nations hogged COVID-19 shots while millions in poor countries died waiting for them it would amount to "vaccine apartheid". South Africa and India have been pushing for a waiver on some intellectual property (IP) rights for vaccines and medicines at the World Trade Organization. U.S. President Joe Biden backed the proposal last week, though it may still take months to reach a deal. Ramaphosa called on South Africans to support the waiver in a weekly newsletter, saying vaccines should be "a global public good". "It is about affirming…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Black fungus’ adds to India’s woes

‘Black fungus’ adds to India’s woes

COVID-19
MANAS MISHRA and KANNAKI DEKA THE Indian government has told doctors to look out for signs of mucormycosis or "black fungus" in COVID-19 patients as hospitals report a rise in cases of the rare but potentially fatal infection. The state-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said at the weekend that doctors treating COVID-19 patients, diabetics and those with compromised immune systems should watch for early symptoms including sinus pain or nasal blockage on one side of the face, one-sided headache, swelling or numbness, toothache and loosening of teeth. The disease, which can lead to blackening or discolouration over the…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudanese search for oxygen cylinders

Sudanese search for oxygen cylinders

COVID-19
KHALID ABDELAZIZ SUDAN is struggling to provide hospital beds, drugs and medical oxygen to COVID-19 patients hit by a third wave of infections that is straining the country's patchy healthcare system beyond what it can cope with. With a population of over 40 million, Sudan has recorded 33,000 cases and over 2,600 deaths since the start of the pandemic, but officials say the real numbers are likely to be much higher given low rates of testing. In recent weeks, an acute shortage of oxygen, partly due to power cuts that impeded production at the country's main plant, has left hospitals…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Book Review | Cuddling men and tailoring scissors

Book Review | Cuddling men and tailoring scissors

LITERATURE
MEGAN ROSS THE Madhouse is a work of dazzling complexity, a pan-African tribute to art and artists alike that explores the strange lives of a family of four. Setting the novel against the political uncertainty of Nigeria in the 1980s and 1990s, author TJ Benson takes his readers on a hallucinatory journey spanning decades and time zones with the titular character – an old asylum-cum-family home – as a portal into the secrets, dreams and yearnings of brothers André and Macmillan, and their parents Sweet Mother and Sharriff.  The Madhouse calls to mind the energy of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Jerusalem violence leads to Hamas rockets on Israel, nine dead in Gaza

Jerusalem violence leads to Hamas rockets on Israel, nine dead in Gaza

WORLD
JEFFREY HELLER and NIDAL al-MUGHRABI PALESTINIAN militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets toward the Jerusalem area and southern Israel yesterday, carrying out a threat to punish Israel for violent confrontations with Palestinians in Jerusalem. The Gaza health ministry said nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in the Palestinian territory after the barrages against Israel. The Israeli military issued no immediate comment on any action it had taken in the enclave. Rocket sirens sounded in Jerusalem, in nearby towns and in communities near the Gaza minutes after an ultimatum from the enclave's ruling Islamist Hamas group demanding Israel…
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