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Apr
30
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ex-Nigerian president, businessmen rally behind former oil minister

Ex-Nigerian president, businessmen rally behind former oil minister

NEWS
THE bribery trial of former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke took a dramatic turn at Southwark Crown Court this week when written statements from former President Goodluck Jonathan and two of West Africa's most powerful oil executives were placed before the jury - each flatly contradicting the prosecution's account of corruption at the heart of Nigeria's petro-state. Jonathan, who appointed Alison-Madueke as oil minister in 2010, told the court through a formal statement that it was entirely normal practice for third parties to make payments on behalf of ministers travelling on official duties abroad. He further confirmed that he had…
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Apr
30
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
‘A country without reserves is not sovereign’: Uganda’s Central Bank governor issues stark economic warning over sovereignty bill

‘A country without reserves is not sovereign’: Uganda’s Central Bank governor issues stark economic warning over sovereignty bill

NEWS
IN a parliamentary appearance that reverberated through Uganda's financial establishment, the Governor of the Bank of Uganda, Michael Atingi-Ego, delivered one of the most consequential warnings to come from an African central banker in recent years: a proposed law ostensibly designed to protect Uganda's sovereignty could, in practice, destroy it. Testifying before a joint sitting of Parliament's Defence and Internal Affairs Committee and the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Atingi-Ego left lawmakers with a blunt and unambiguous verdict on the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, 2026: in its current form, the legislation poses a clear and present danger to Uganda's economy,…
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Apr
30
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Darfur Abandoned. Again

Darfur Abandoned. Again

NEWS
THERE is a particular cruelty in a catastrophe that destroys children twice: once in the doing, and again in the forgetting. In Sudan's Darfur region, both are happening simultaneously. The war that has consumed Sudan since April 2023 - when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) turned their guns on each other - is now entering its fourth year. It is one of the worst humanitarian emergencies on the planet. In Darfur alone, it has produced death tolls that stagger the mind, displacement on a biblical scale, and famine conditions that experts describe not…
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Apr
30
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
“Mnangagwa paid my fine”: Mugabe’s son drops bombshell that blows the debate wide open

“Mnangagwa paid my fine”: Mugabe’s son drops bombshell that blows the debate wide open

NEWS
THE debate about whether the son of Zimbabwe's late President Robert Mugabe received preferential justice in a South African court was already burning on Thursday afternoon. Then Bellarmine Mugabe himself lit the match that turned it into an inferno. In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Mugabe - who goes by the handle @ChatuBellamine - revealed that the R600 000 fine he paid to walk free from the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court was not paid from his own pocket. It was paid by Zimbabwe's current head of state, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man who succeeded his…
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Apr
29
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
At 30,000 feet, life finds a way: the miracle birth that moved a nation

At 30,000 feet, life finds a way: the miracle birth that moved a nation

NEWS
THERE are moments that cut through the noise of politics, conflict, and daily struggle to remind us, with breathtaking clarity, what it means to be alive. Sunday, 26 April 2026, delivered one such moment - literally delivered - at approximately 10,000 metres above the African earth. On a routine CAA Airbus A320 flight from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa, as passengers settled into the familiar hum of cruising altitude and flight attendants prepared for descent, something utterly extraordinary was quietly unfolding in a window seat. A 30-year-old Congolese woman - composed, silent, and possessed of a grace that defies comprehension - was…
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Apr
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Smoke on the hill: fourteen dead as Cessna plunges into Juba’s misty highlands

Smoke on the hill: fourteen dead as Cessna plunges into Juba’s misty highlands

NEWS
THE Red Cross officials came down the hill slowly, deliberately, each carrying the weight of a life cut short. Fourteen white body bags. Fourteen souls. The smouldering wreckage of a Cessna 208 Caravan lay scattered across the mist-shrouded highlands on the outskirts of South Sudan's capital - burnt metal and scorched earth half-swallowed by the lush, wet vegetation of a landscape that had become, without warning, a graveyard. This is what an aviation tragedy looks like in the heart of Africa. The Cessna, operated by CityLink Aviation, lifted off from Yei at 0915 local time on a routine flight to…
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Apr
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
ICC orders €7.25 million in reparations for over 65,000 Timbuktu victims of al Hassan’s reign of terror

ICC orders €7.25 million in reparations for over 65,000 Timbuktu victims of al Hassan’s reign of terror

NEWS
TWO years after the International Criminal Court delivered a landmark conviction against one of the key architects of Timbuktu's darkest chapter, the same court has now ordered that the victims of his crimes be compensated - a step that legal observers and victim advocates say is as critical to healing as the guilty verdict itself. On Tuesday, 28 April 2026, Trial Chamber X of the ICC delivered its reparations order in the case of The Prosecutor v. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, awarding collective community-based reparations with a limited individualised component focused on rehabilitation, alongside symbolic…
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Apr
28
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Thirty-two years on: South Africa’s freedom remains a work in progress

Thirty-two years on: South Africa’s freedom remains a work in progress

NEWS
ON 27 April 1994, more than 20 million South Africans stood in queues that stretched beyond the horizon, weathering rain and scorching sun, to cast a vote that would end the long nightmare of apartheid. Thirty-two years later, South Africa gathered again - this time at the Dr Rantlai Molemela Stadium in Bloemfontein - to mark Freedom Day under the symbolic weight of a democracy that has delivered much, but still owes its people more. President Cyril Ramaphosa used the occasion to deliver what was simultaneously a celebration of democratic endurance and a frank acknowledgement that the liberation dividend remains…
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Apr
28
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
BLOOD IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER: The massacre at Kati’s mosque lays bare the human cost of Mali’s unravelling

BLOOD IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER: The massacre at Kati’s mosque lays bare the human cost of Mali’s unravelling

NEWS
THEY had come, as the faithful do, in the deep quiet before sunrise. Men and women, stepping softly through the dark streets of Kati, drawn not by politics or power but by prayer - by the simple, ancient rite of standing before God at the hour when the world is still. The mosque near the residence of General Sadio Camara, Mali's Minister of Defence, was a place of worship, not a theatre of war. By 05:20 on the morning of Saturday, 25 April 2026, it had become both. The worshippers were seated in the hush of pre-dawn waiting, the Fajr…
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Apr
28
2026
By The African Mirror
Uganda’s sovereignty bill: dressed as patriotism, built for repression

Uganda’s sovereignty bill: dressed as patriotism, built for repression

NEWS
WHEN governments reach for the language of sovereignty to justify restricting their own citizens, history counsels alarm. Uganda's Protection of Sovereignty Bill of 2026 is precisely such a moment - and Africa must be watching. Introduced before parliament on April 15 by Internal Affairs State Minister David Muhoozi, the bill proposes criminalising vaguely defined activities that promote the "interests of a foreigner against the interests of Uganda." The phrase sounds reasonable enough until you read the fine print. Clause 5 prohibits any act that promotes the interests of a foreigner against the interests of Uganda, yet nowhere defines what that…
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