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Jun
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ghana raises diplomatic storm over Partey’s World Cup visa block, threatens court action

Ghana raises diplomatic storm over Partey’s World Cup visa block, threatens court action

NEWS
THE Government of Ghana has moved swiftly and forcefully against Canada following the host nation's decision to deny midfielder Thomas Partey a visa to participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, escalating what began as a sporting setback into a fully-fledged diplomatic confrontation - and threatening legal action in the Canadian courts. Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has formally lodged a protest with Canada, demanding that Ottawa reverse its refusal of a temporary residence application for Partey, a key member of Ghana's senior national team. The language deployed by Accra is unambiguous: measured in register, but pointed in legal and…
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Jun
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
How ‘Blessing CEO’ allegedly milked Nigeria’s generosity with a cancer lie

How ‘Blessing CEO’ allegedly milked Nigeria’s generosity with a cancer lie

NEWS
SHE styled herself the apostle of romantic truth - a flamboyant social media relationship coach whose millions of followers hung on her every word about love, self-worth, and the audacity to want better. She was, by her own account, Blessing CEO: fearless, fabulous, and - she claimed - dying. The dying part, investigators now allege, was a spectacular and cold-blooded lie. And the people she targeted with that lie were not wealthy patrons or anonymous philanthropic foundations. They were ordinary Nigerians - fans who trusted her, strangers who wept for her, citizens who quietly transferred money they could barely afford…
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Jun
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
DRC: Protests force Tshisekedi to pause bid to join Africa’s long queue of leaders who would be kings

DRC: Protests force Tshisekedi to pause bid to join Africa’s long queue of leaders who would be kings

NEWS
KINSHASA BURNS - AGAIN The images that emerged from Kinshasa on the afternoon of Friday, 12 June 2026, were visceral and deeply familiar to anyone who has followed the DRC's tortured democratic trajectory. Martin Fayulu — one of the country's most prominent opposition leaders and a man who may never have been allowed a fair shot at the presidency he arguably won in 2018 — was photographed with blood around his eyes and across his shirt. Around him, supporters frantically tried to shield him as security forces dispersed protesters with tear gas and live ammunition. Fayulu and his allies had…
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Jun
13
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force

Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force

NEWS
NIGERIA’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu issued one of the most pointed security warnings of his administration, telling Nigeria's armed criminal networks — from kidnappers and bandits to those who finance terror — that the time to surrender is running out. Speaking during the Democracy Day address at the Eagle Square in Abuja, where Nigeria marked 27 consecutive years of unbroken civilian rule, Tinubu delivered an unambiguous ultimatum that drew audible attention in the hall and will reverberate across conflict-affected communities from the North-West to the North-East. "To bandits, kidnappers, and sponsors of terror: Surrender or face the full force of…
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Jun
13
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost

DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost

NEWS
IN approximately three weeks since the outbreak was formally confirmed, the Democratic Republic of Congo's health authorities have recorded 676 cases and 136 deaths from the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus - a relatively rare variant of the disease for which no approved vaccine or targeted therapeutic currently exists. Those statistics alone are alarming. The geography behind them is catastrophic. Active infections have now been identified across a corridor spanning some 1,000 kilometres - from Aru in the north of Ituri province to Miti Murhesa in South Kivu - with 34 health zones affected as of the last reporting…
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Jun
12
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
How Nigeria cabinet minister rented an Ethiopian Airlines plane to stage fake Nigerian Air launch

How Nigeria cabinet minister rented an Ethiopian Airlines plane to stage fake Nigerian Air launch

NEWS
IT WAS THEATRE. Carefully scripted, meticulously timed, and breathtakingly brazen — a political magic trick performed on a nation that had waited years for a national airline to call its own. Courtroom testimony delivered in Abuja on Wednesday has laid bare what prosecutors describe as an extraordinary act of official deception: that the aircraft which rolled onto the tarmac of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on 27 May 2023 — painted in the proud colours of Nigeria Air — was never Nigerian at all. It belonged to Ethiopian Airlines. It had been chartered for three days. And the moment the…
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Jun
12
2026
By The African Mirror
Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant

Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant

NEWS
WHEN President Samia Suluhu Hassan rose to address the plenary of the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on 5 June 2026, she opened not with economic data but with imagery — the deliberate, considered imagery of a continent tired of being abstractly referenced and determined to be concretely present. "Greetings from the snow of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world. Greetings from the great plains of the Serengeti, where the wildebeest migration rights one of nature's oldest and most magnificent stories. And greetings from the Spice Island of Zanzibar."President Samia Suluhu Hassan, SPIEF 2026 Plenary It…
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Jun
12
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA

Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA

NEWS
ON the morning of 10 April 2026, a routine operation at the Beitbridge Port of Entry, the busiest land border crossing on the African continent, produced anything but a routine result. A SARS customs officer was observed in pursuit of a truck driver. A Border Management Authority officer joined the chase. What followed was the unravelling of one of the more brazen attempts to smuggle an industrial-grade arsenal into South Africa. Edgar Maroto, a 42-year-old Zimbabwean national, had lied to border officials, declaring his cargo as scrap material. What inspectors found concealed beneath the trailer was a different kind of…
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Jun
13
2026
By The African Mirror
Tinubu honours journalists, lawyers and activists who bled for Nigeria’s democracy

Tinubu honours journalists, lawyers and activists who bled for Nigeria’s democracy

NEWS
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced national honours for more than three dozen Nigerians whose courage, sacrifice, and suffering laid the foundations of the democratic republic the country now celebrates - figures who faced prison cells, forced exile, solitary confinement, and state violence in the struggle to restore the mandate stolen from Chief M.K.O. Abiola on June 12, 1993. The announcement, made during Thursday's Democracy Day address at Eagle Square in Abuja, represents one of the most comprehensive acts of official recognition for the civil society actors, journalists, lawyers, and political activists who sustained the pro-democracy movement through years of…
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Jun
11
2026
By The African Mirror
Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia

Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia

NEWS
HE missed the 2026 World Cup not because of form or fitness but because a visa line in Washington stood between him and football’s biggest stage. Instead of starting under stadium lights, Omar Abdulkadir Artan stepped off a plane at Aden Adde International this morning into a different kind of spotlight - one of national celebration, waving flags, and the kind of hero’s welcome that turns absence into symbolism. Artan’s appointment by FIFA was more than a personal milestone. For a country still wrestling with instability, displacement and chronic underinvestment in sport, his presence on the World Cup roster would…
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