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Jun
11
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout

Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout

NEWS
IT is, by now, a familiar story - and that is precisely what makes it so alarming. One of Europe's most wanted criminals, convicted in absentia to 24 years in a Dutch prison, goes about his alleged business in West Africa with the apparent ease of a man who has nothing to fear from the law. According to OCCRP, Dutch drug trafficker Joseph "Jos" Leijdekkers - who sits on the European Union's most wanted fugitives list - is the prime suspect behind last month's record-breaking cocaine seizure on the high seas off the West African coast. Spanish authorities told OCCRP…
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Jun
11
2026
By The African Mirror
SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide

SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide

NEWS
AT least 12 people were killed and 10 wounded in a pre-dawn attack on the Cleveland informal settlement in Gauteng, a massacre that local residents and media say was carried out by armed men linked to illegal mining networks. Witnesses told reporters that some suspects are Lesotho nationals who once worked in a zama-zama gang, broke away from the group and returned at night to execute former associates. A manhunt is underway; police have yet to announce arrests. The provincial government condemned the killings as “barbaric,” pledged support to investigators and urged residents with information to come forward. Yet the…
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Jun
10
2026
By The African Mirror
Hostile at the gate: how the world’s greatest football tournament turned its back on Africa

Hostile at the gate: how the world’s greatest football tournament turned its back on Africa

NEWS
When FIFA awarded the 2026 World Cup to a tri-nation consortium of the United States, Canada and Mexico, the governing body spoke rapturously of a tournament that would be the biggest, most inclusive and most spectacular in football's history. A record 48 teams. One hundred and four matches. The world united. Football without borders. That promise is now in ruins for Africa. Across the full breadth of the African continent - from the Maghreb to the Horn, from West Africa to the Cape - the 2026 FIFA World Cup has delivered not inclusion but humiliation, not welcome but a wall.…
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Jun
10
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
“FAIR TRIAL IMPOSSIBLE”: Uganda’s prominent detainee fights to stop trial and gain freedom

“FAIR TRIAL IMPOSSIBLE”: Uganda’s prominent detainee fights to stop trial and gain freedom

NEWS
THERE is a particular cruelty in what has happened to Dr Kizza Besigye. He served Yoweri Museveni as physician, as soldier, as political ally, and as a trusted architect of the movement that brought the current president to power in 1986. He knows where the bodies are buried - some of them literally. And for precisely that reason, the Ugandan state has never been able to treat him as an ordinary opponent. It has had to treat him as an existential threat. That dynamic - the intimacy of the original bond and the ferocity of the subsequent rupture - has…
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Jun
10
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Five years on the run, one morning at Kotoka: the long arm of the law finally reaches Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu

Five years on the run, one morning at Kotoka: the long arm of the law finally reaches Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu

NEWS
SHE came in on United Airlines flight UA 996, wheels down at Kotoka International Airport at approximately 9:01 a.m. on Tuesday. For Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, former Chief Executive of Ghana’s Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), the landing ended five years of freedom — and began what ought to be a decade behind bars. Officers of the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Prisons Service were waiting. The woman who had used a court-sanctioned medical trip to the United States in 2021 as a one-way exit from Ghanaian justice was received, debriefed, and subjected to medical examination before being taken into…
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Jun
09
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ex-Kenya’s chief justice emerges as the green conscience in the battle for Nairobi’s last wild heart

Ex-Kenya’s chief justice emerges as the green conscience in the battle for Nairobi’s last wild heart

NEWS
THE scene at the edge of Nairobi National Park on Monday morning was one of those that writes its own history. A man in a green T-shirt - the same shade worn by the activists around him - stood his ground as police moved in. He was not just any protester. He was David Maraga: former Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya, constitutional champion of judicial independence, and the man who nullified a presidential election and survived the fury that followed. And now, at the park boundary on Lang'ata Road, he was being bundled into a police lorry alongside…
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Jun
09
2026
By The African Mirror
Ruto casts Africa as the century’s prize, with Kenya selling itself as the gateway

Ruto casts Africa as the century’s prize, with Kenya selling itself as the gateway

NEWS
AFRICA is “the opportunity of this century,” President William Ruto declared in Brussels, sharpening Kenya’s attempt to position itself as the continent’s commercial doorway. His message is clear: Africa should no longer be approached as a problem to be managed, but as a market, a production base and a source of future global growth. Ruto’s argument rests on three pillars: Africa’s scale, Kenya’s geography and the promise of new partnerships. “Kenya is your gateway to that opportunity,” he said, linking the country’s strategic location and growing economy to access for investors seeking entry into Africa’s fast-expanding market. That framing fits…
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Jun
09
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
SCANDAL: Africa’s top ref turned away from the 2026 FIFA World Cup

SCANDAL: Africa’s top ref turned away from the 2026 FIFA World Cup

NEWS
THE whistle that Omar Abdulkadir Artan will never blow echoes louder than the ones he was appointed to blow. On Monday morning - with 48 hours remaining before the opening ceremony of the 2026 FIFA World Cup - the 34-year-old Somali referee, Africa's finest, arrived at Miami International Airport clutching a diplomatic passport and a FIFA appointment. He left carrying nothing but a boarding pass back to Istanbul. The United States sent him home. His story is the most powerful metaphor yet for what this World Cup has become: a tournament hosted by a country that does not want the…
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Jun
10
2026
By The African Mirror
Community trust and faster testing drive DRC response as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads to Uganda, WHO says

Community trust and faster testing drive DRC response as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads to Uganda, WHO says

NEWS
THE World Health Organization says a stepped-up effort to decentralize laboratory testing and intensify contact tracing — underpinned by community engagement — is central to containing the current Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has also produced cross-border cases in neighbouring Uganda. WHO’s Health Emergency Alert and Response Operations Director, Dr. Abdirahman Mahamud, told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that the outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain, had produced 550 confirmed cases and 101 deaths in the DRC as of 8 June. Nineteen patients have recovered, illustrating the lifesaving potential of early detection and…
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Jun
09
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
No continent for desperate men: Africa’s migration crisis turns inward

No continent for desperate men: Africa’s migration crisis turns inward

NEWS
ON a Sunday morning at OR Tambo International Airport, 340 Ghanaian nationals boarded a chartered flight home — not as tourists, not as returning migrants enriched by their sojourn in the south, but as the latest passengers on Africa's growing repatriation express. Some had overstayed their welcome by more than a month. Others had withdrawn asylum applications they presumably once held with some desperation. Thirty-seven were children, born on South African soil, leaving it on emergency travel certificates they would not have chosen for themselves. That single operation, conducted on 7 June 2026, tells the story of a continent in…
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