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Apr
17
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
SA Hawks snare fugitive Benin coup plotter in Pretoria sting

SA Hawks snare fugitive Benin coup plotter in Pretoria sting

NEWS
SOUTH Africa's elite Hawks unit arrested the controversial pan-Africanist figure Kemi Seba - whose legal name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi - together with his 18-year-old son Khonsou Seba Capo Chichi and a local facilitator on Sunday, 13 April 2026, in an intelligence-driven sting operation at a shopping centre in the Brooklyn suburb of Pretoria. The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DCPI), operating through its Crimes Against the State unit (CATS) with support from the Hawks' Tactical Operations Management Section and Crime Intelligence's Counter Terrorism division, confirmed the arrests in a statement on Tuesday. The three accused made a…
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Apr
17
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Firebrand at the crossroads: Malema’s five-year sentence threatens political career

Firebrand at the crossroads: Malema’s five-year sentence threatens political career

NEWS
WHEN the KuGompo Magistrate Court handed Julius Malema an effective five-year prison sentence on Thursday, the ruling did far more than settle the fate of an exuberant gun discharge at a political rally six years ago. It set in motion a constitutional clock whose alarm, if it ever sounds, would reorder the architecture of South African opposition politics in ways the country has not confronted since the end of apartheid. Magistrate Twanet Olivier sentenced the 45-year-old Economic Freedom Fighters leader to two years for unlawful possession of a firearm and a further three years for discharging a weapon in a…
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Apr
17
2026
By The African Mirror
Pope Leo carries message of peace to Cameroon’s conflict-scarred anglophone heartland

Pope Leo carries message of peace to Cameroon’s conflict-scarred anglophone heartland

NEWS
POPE Leo arrived in Bamenda on Thursday — the principal city of Cameroon's beleaguered anglophone northwest — bringing a message of hope to a region where nearly a decade of armed conflict has claimed more than 6,500 lives and driven over half a million people from their homes. The visit, the second leg of Leo's Cameroon stopover and the third stop on a four-country Africa tour, marks a rare moment of calm in a war zone that has seen clergy kidnapped and killed, and where the country's 93-year-old president, Paul Biya, has not set foot since the fighting began. A…
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Apr
17
2026
By The African Mirror
Burundi minister found dead in palm plantation — government calls it accident, police cite ‘dark points’

Burundi minister found dead in palm plantation — government calls it accident, police cite ‘dark points’

NEWS
BURUNDI’S Minister of Communications and Media, Gaby Bugagga, was found dead early Thursday morning inside a vehicle abandoned in a remote palm plantation near Kiboga, approximately 10 kilometres from Bujumbura — with the government hastily attributing the death to an accident even as police sources flagged numerous unexplained inconsistencies. The body was discovered by farmers, roughly ten metres off a sparsely trafficked road cutting through hundreds of hectares of palm trees. They posted photographs of the deceased online in an attempt to identify him. In the images, Bugagga appeared partially slumped across the dashboard, dressed in shorts, a casual shirt,…
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Apr
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Nigeria’s airstrike pattern and the civilian toll the military cannot explain away

Nigeria’s airstrike pattern and the civilian toll the military cannot explain away

NEWS
ON a Saturday night in April 2026, Nigerian military jets swept over the northeast of the country in pursuit of Islamist militants. What they hit was a village market. More than 200 people are feared dead. The victims were not combatants. They were traders, buyers, ordinary citizens navigating the brutal economics of survival in one of Africa's most conflict-ravaged regions. It is, by now, a familiar story. And that familiarity is itself the scandal. In the period from January 2023 to April 2026, Nigerian military airstrikes have killed well over 400 civilians across the country's north and northeast - in…
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Apr
16
2026
By The African Mirror
UNHCR funding cuts leave Egypt’s refugee mothers on the edge of collapse

UNHCR funding cuts leave Egypt’s refugee mothers on the edge of collapse

NEWS
NAWAL clutches her youngest son on the cramped balcony of their Cairo tenement, his frail body a stark reminder of the choices no mother should make. The 35-year-old Sudanese widow, widowed by the war that has ravaged her homeland for four merciless years, gets just 1,520 Egyptian pounds ($28) a month from UNHCR – barely enough for survival, yet it's all that's keeping her six children from the streets. "I can only afford school for three of them," she says, voice cracking. "My eldest boy babysits the rest while I scrape by on part-time work. No child should sacrifice their…
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Apr
17
2026
By STAFF REPORTER
Chapungu soars home: ancestral wings cross the Limpopo in sacred return

Chapungu soars home: ancestral wings cross the Limpopo in sacred return

NEWS
IN a moment woven from the threads of eternity, South Africa's Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, crossed the mighty Limpopo River into Harare like a modern-day messenger of the ancestors. There, he placed into the hands of President Emmerson Mnangagwa the final jewel of Zimbabwe's stolen legacy: Chapungu, the eighth and most revered Soapstone Bird, guardian spirit of Great Zimbabwe. Accompanying this celestial bird were the long-exiled bones of forebears from Chivhu, Goromonzi, Mazowe, Kwekwe, and Mberengwa - sacred vessels of memory, now pulsing back to the earth that birthed them. Carved from a single, sun-kissed block…
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Apr
16
2026
By The African Mirror
FROM ALGIERS TO YAOUNDÉ: Pope Leo XIV steps into Africa’s complex heart

FROM ALGIERS TO YAOUNDÉ: Pope Leo XIV steps into Africa’s complex heart

NEWS
POPE Leo XIV has landed in Cameroon carrying the moral and political weight of a first leg that was, by any measure, historic. Algeria gave the world a pope who arrived not as a ceremonial figurehead but as a statesman of faith - willing to confront power, honour the martyred, pray in a mosque, and speak uncomfortable truths to authoritarian governments. What awaits him in Cameroon is an altogether different and, in many ways, far more demanding test. The Algeria chapter of this extraordinary 11-day, four-nation apostolic journey was, from the first moments, saturated in symbolism. Arriving in Algiers on…
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Apr
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Civilians trapped as drone attacks, aid blockades deepen crisis in eastern Congo

Civilians trapped as drone attacks, aid blockades deepen crisis in eastern Congo

NEWS
DRONE strikes have killed civilians, destroyed a community radio station, and punched holes through a church roof in the remote highlands of South Kivu, as armed groups and government forces block humanitarian aid and prevent terrified residents from fleeing, Human Rights Watch has warned. The findings, published ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the Democratic Republic of Congo scheduled for April 15, paint a picture of systematic civilian suffering in one of Africa's most neglected conflict zones - where food prices have quintupled, medicine has run out, and phone networks have been dark for more than a year.…
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Apr
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
From OPEC throne to the dock: Diezani faces her reckoning

From OPEC throne to the dock: Diezani faces her reckoning

NEWS
THERE was a time when Diezani Alison-Madueke’s voice moved oil markets. When she walked into an OPEC ministerial meeting, a woman in a sea of Arab princes and Gulf potentates, the world paid attention. Nigeria, a country that has produced so few female titans in its political economy, had in her something remarkable: a woman of exceptional ability, commanding presence, and enormous power, presiding over the engine room of the nation’s wealth. That was then. On Monday, the 65-year-old former Petroleum Minister stood in the dock at Southwark Crown Court in London, charged with five counts of accepting bribes and…
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