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Apr
08
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Sold into war: Cameroon’s shocking death toll exposes Africa’s deepening crisis on Russia’s frontlines

Sold into war: Cameroon’s shocking death toll exposes Africa’s deepening crisis on Russia’s frontlines

NEWS
THE names were read on national radio on a Monday morning - sixteen Cameroonian citizens, confirmed dead on the frozen killing fields of eastern Ukraine, fighting a war that was never theirs. The disclosure by Cameroon's Ministry of External Relations this week marks the first time Yaoundé has officially confirmed the deaths of its nationals serving alongside Russian forces in what Moscow calls its "special military operation" - a clinical euphemism for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that has, since February 2022, drawn in hundreds of Africans as expendable foot soldiers. The list of 16 names, obtained through a verbal…
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Apr
08
2026
By JOVIAL RANTAO
Africa’s refinery moment: Dangote fuels the dream of a self-sufficient continent

Africa’s refinery moment: Dangote fuels the dream of a self-sufficient continent

NEWS
HISTORY does not always announce itself. Sometimes it arrives in the form of an oil tanker departing the Lagos coastline, bound not for Houston or Rotterdam, but for Accra, Dar es Salaam, or Douala. When Aliko Dangote stood before cameras at his sprawling Ibeju-Lekki refinery and declared that he could supply "West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa," he was not merely making a business statement. He was articulating, perhaps without quite intending to, the most compelling pan-African argument of our era: that this continent, so long defined by what it exports raw and imports processed, is beginning - haltingly,…
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Apr
07
2026
By JACSON OKATA
Angola’s Lourenço slams superpower wars over oil, minerals

Angola’s Lourenço slams superpower wars over oil, minerals

NEWS
AS the US and Israel-led war against Iran persists, the President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço, has warned that the same motives behind colonialism in the past are what drive any superpower today to carry out military interventions, as happened in the US invasion of Iraq. Speaking during the 11th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Lourenço argued that in today’s world, using a wide range of arguments but with the same objective to control the planet’s main energy sources, oil, gas, and critical and strategic minerals…
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Apr
07
2026
By The African Mirror
Papa knows best: at 93, Biya turns Cameroon into a family business

Papa knows best: at 93, Biya turns Cameroon into a family business

NEWS
PAUL Biya has never been a man in a hurry. He has, after all, had 44 years to get things done. So when Africa's longest-serving non-royal president finally decided to settle the small matter of what happens when he is no longer around - or, more accurately, when he is no longer even more conspicuously absent than usual - he did not leave it to chance, the electorate, or, heaven forbid, the Senate. He left it to his son. In a presidential decree dated 4 April 2026, the 93-year-old patriarch of Cameroonian politics appointed Franck Emmanuel Biya - his adopted…
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Apr
07
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
DRC World Cup stars are filthy rich before a ball is kicked

DRC World Cup stars are filthy rich before a ball is kicked

NEWS
QUALIFYING for the FIFA World Cup is supposed to be the reward. The trophy. The culmination. The moment players and coaches hoist each other onto heaving shoulders and weep into television cameras while their nation erupts into national delirium. That is the deal. That is how it has always worked. Nobody appears to have explained this to President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because in Kinshasa, qualifying is apparently just the down payment. "Axel Tuanzebe scored his knee into World Cup history — and into a brand-new Jeep, a fat bank account, and a chunk of the…
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Apr
07
2026
By The African Mirror
South Africa rewrites the rules: Cabinet approves generation-defining immigration overhaul

South Africa rewrites the rules: Cabinet approves generation-defining immigration overhaul

NEWS
AFTER the most recent meeting of the South African Cabinet, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni stepped before the cameras and the language she used was deliberate: the Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection had been approved - not for further study, not for another round of consultation, but for implementation. It was the signal that South Africa's migration regime, long characterised by institutional incoherence and policy drift, is entering a new era. The document that the Cabinet has now cleared represents years of iterative policy development. The original White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection…
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Apr
03
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Nigerian President meets with families, survivors of Palm Sunday massacre

Nigerian President meets with families, survivors of Palm Sunday massacre

NEWS
THE woman had already buried her son once - in her arms, in the viral video that stopped Nigeria cold. She had held young Ayuba's body in the dust of Angwan Rukuba, her face a portrait of a grief too enormous for words. Now, five days after the gunmen came at dusk on Palm Sunday, she stood inside a makeshift hall near the runway of Jos Airport and heard the President of Nigeria say her boy's name. 'I know the pain,' Bola Tinubu told her. 'I saw how you held your own son Ayuba in the video, and the pain…
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Apr
03
2026
By The African Mirror
Lawyers go to court as US dumps 16 criminals on Uganda’s doorstep

Lawyers go to court as US dumps 16 criminals on Uganda’s doorstep

NEWS
UGANDA's lawyers have gone to court to block what they described as the brazen dumping of 16 individuals with criminal backgrounds onto Ugandan soil, hours after the group arrived on a flight from the United States at Entebbe International Airport - a process the legal fraternity condemned as a violation of human dignity orchestrated for the benefit of unnamed, private interests on either side of the Atlantic. The Uganda Law Society (ULS) and the East Africa Law Society (EALS) jointly confirmed the arrival, issuing a blistering statement that dispensed with diplomatic niceties to describe the deportations as a politically engineered…
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