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Jun
30
2026
By The African Mirror
SA braces for June 30 flashpoint as police deploy, migrants flee, Ramaphosa rejects vigilante ultimatums

SA braces for June 30 flashpoint as police deploy, migrants flee, Ramaphosa rejects vigilante ultimatums

NEWS
SOUTH Africa is heading into a volatile June 30 standoff, with police on high alert, foreign nationals rushing to leave the country or seek embassy assistance, and President Cyril Ramaphosa warning that intimidation and violence cannot be allowed to replace the rule of law. What began as an anti-immigration campaign has now become a test of state authority, public order and the country’s ability to deal with illegal migration without sliding into mob justice. The immediate trigger is a self-imposed deadline set by anti-immigration groupings demanding that undocumented foreign nationals leave South Africa by June 30. That call has sparked…
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Jun
30
2026
By BONFACE ORUCHO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Mozambique moves to govern AI as more African states build laws

Mozambique moves to govern AI as more African states build laws

NEWS
MOZAMBIQUE has drafted a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy as it moves to formalise the legal, institutional, and regulatory frameworks that will shape how AI systems are deployed across public and private sectors. “This is not about stifling innovation, but rather about creating clear rules that ensure these tools are used safely, transparently, responsibly, and with respect for consumer rights,” Bank of Mozambique Governor Rogério Zandamela said during the opening of the central bank's 17th Scientific Conference on June 16. Zandamela said artificial intelligence is already embedded in financial systems and institutional decision-making processes, adding that its use is now part…
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Jun
30
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Museveni’s son-in-law admits soldiers beat voters, stuffed ballots in stolen election

Museveni’s son-in-law admits soldiers beat voters, stuffed ballots in stolen election

NEWS
For nearly four decades, public criticism of President Yoweri Museveni's grip on power in Uganda has come from outside his family circle - from opposition politicians, civil society and a battered independent press. This week, in a striking departure, it has also come from inside the presidential household itself. Odrek Rwabwogo, chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID) and a senior presidential adviser, is married to Museveni's eldest daughter, Pastor Patience Museveni Rwabwogo. In an interview with The Observer, the 52-year-old businessman — long regarded as a Museveni loyalist and, at various points, a subject…
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Jun
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
BURKINA FASO DIVORCE: Paris reacts, Francophone Africa watches

BURKINA FASO DIVORCE: Paris reacts, Francophone Africa watches

NEWS
FRANCE has revealed that it was weighing reciprocal measures after Burkina Faso severed all diplomatic relations with Paris, calling the decision “hostile and unfounded” and warning that it illustrated a worrying drift by the Burkinabè authorities. The response, delivered within a day of Ouagadougou's announcement, was the clearest signal yet that France does not intend to absorb the break quietly - even as the rest of Francophone West Africa has, more carefully, been edging toward the same destination for the past four years. Foreign ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux said in a statement that necessary reciprocal measures were currently under review,…
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Jun
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Uganda’s darkest weekend: Muhoozi shuts down independent media as Matembe missing

Uganda’s darkest weekend: Muhoozi shuts down independent media as Matembe missing

NEWS
UGANDA woke on Sunday to find soldiers stationed outside the country's largest independent newsroom and one of its most respected elder stateswomen still missing, after Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba moved within a single week to silence both the press that scrutinises him and the activists who criticise him. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, armed personnel surrounded the Namuwongo, Kampala headquarters of Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda and the Kampala Serena Hotel broadcast centre housing NTV Uganda and Spark TV, sealing the compounds and restricting movement in and out. By 5 am, NTV Uganda and Spark TV screens…
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Jun
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Kinshasa drags Kigali back to The Hague: DRC-Rwanda relations hit new low as peace process falters

Kinshasa drags Kigali back to The Hague: DRC-Rwanda relations hit new low as peace process falters

NEWS
THE fragile diplomatic architecture holding together the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda cracked further this week after Kinshasa filed an application instituting proceedings against Kigali at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing its smaller eastern neighbour of three decades of genocide, mass killing and systematic human rights abuse in the mineral-rich Kivus. The filing, lodged at the Peace Palace in The Hague on 26 June 2026, concerns what the DRC describes as “abuses attributable to Rwanda over a period extending from 1996 to the present day”. It is the boldest legal escalation yet in a relationship that…
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Jun
27
2026
By The African Mirror
SA: Kings, Queens Drawn Into Last-Ditch Push to Defuse Migration Powder Keg

SA: Kings, Queens Drawn Into Last-Ditch Push to Defuse Migration Powder Keg

NEWS
WITH days standing between South Africa and a self-declared “national shutdown” over illegal immigration, President Cyril Ramaphosa turned on Saturday to an institution older than the republic itself: the country’s traditional monarchs. At a closed-door meeting with Kings and Queens, Ramaphosa restated the five-pillar Comprehensive Approach for Managing Migration his Cabinet adopted following his 7 June address to the nation, while appealing to the moral authority of traditional leaders to calm communities ahead of the 30 June deadline set by the anti-immigration movement March and March and allied groups for undocumented foreigners to leave the country. It was the latest,…
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Jun
27
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Africa’s World Cup windfall: Knockout stage breakthrough triggers a multimillion-dollar payday from FIFA

Africa’s World Cup windfall: Knockout stage breakthrough triggers a multimillion-dollar payday from FIFA

NEWS
THE referee's final whistle signalled more than victories for South Africa, Morocco and Côte d'Ivoire into the knockout stage in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It activated a financial mechanism that FIFA spent two years engineering, and that the rest of African football is now racing, in real time, to unlock for itself. With the Round of 32 kicking off this weekend, the difference between an early flight home and one more match in this 48-team tournament is no longer measured only in pride. It is measured in tens of millions of dollars, paid not to players but to federations…
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Jun
27
2026
By The African Mirror
Uganda’s democracy by decree: How General Muhoozi Kainerugaba rules from his phone

Uganda’s democracy by decree: How General Muhoozi Kainerugaba rules from his phone

NEWS
On the surface, Uganda staged the full theatre of democracy this year: ballots cast, results declared, President Yoweri Museveni sworn in for a seventh consecutive term. But the man who has done more than anyone to expose the hollowness of that theatre is not an opposition figure. It is the President’s own son. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Chief of Defence Forces and the man widely regarded as Museveni’s anointed successor, has spent recent weeks demonstrating - in real time, on a platform anyone can read - that Uganda’s courts, parliament and security services answer to him before they answer to the…
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Jun
27
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
From the bench to the dock: State attaches corruption-charged judge’s R6-million house

From the bench to the dock: State attaches corruption-charged judge’s R6-million house

NEWS
FOR three decades, South African courts have stripped tenderpreneurs, fraudsters and cartel bosses of the houses, cars and bank balances bought with stolen or laundered money. This week, that same machinery - the Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) - turned on a woman who, until recently, might have been the one signing the order. A preservation order granted by the High Court in Pretoria has frozen a R6-million luxury property in Hartbeespoort registered in the name of Judge Portia Dipuo Phahlane, placing it under the control of a curator bonis pending forfeiture. It is alleged to…
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