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May
21
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ghost workers, real millions: How an SA family’s COVID fraud empire crumbled

Ghost workers, real millions: How an SA family’s COVID fraud empire crumbled

NEWS
THEY conjured nearly 800 workers out of thin air - month after month, for six consecutive months during South Africa's most devastating public health crisis - and funnelled millions in pandemic relief into luxury cars, prime properties, and a lifestyle built entirely on stolen money. Now the law has caught up with them. In one of the most brazen COVID-19 relief fraud cases to emerge from South Africa's pandemic era, a husband and wife and their accomplice appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate's Court on Monday, while in the Free State, a businessman was convicted and ordered to repay funds he…
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May
21
2026
By The African Mirror
Africa’s $4 billion move on food sovereignty: Dangote, Abiy rewrite the rules in Gode

Africa’s $4 billion move on food sovereignty: Dangote, Abiy rewrite the rules in Gode

NEWS
WHEN Africa's richest man walks the red earth of a construction site in Ethiopia's Somali region alongside a Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister, it is not a photo opportunity. It is a statement of civilisational intent. Aliko Dangote's visit to Gode recently, where he stood with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and surveyed the steel and ambition rising from the Ogaden Basin - carried a meaning that transcends the extraordinary numbers now attached to it. The Dangote Group announced on Sunday that its investment in the Gode Urea Fertilizer Plant has been expanded from an initial $2.5 billion to more than…
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May
21
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
UGANDA: The hunt for the millions funding the lifestyle of ex-Speaker of Parliament

UGANDA: The hunt for the millions funding the lifestyle of ex-Speaker of Parliament

NEWS
ON the morning of Tuesday, May 19, forensic investigators and armed detectives sealed off the fifth floor of Uganda’s Parliament building, designating the former Speaker’s chambers as an active crime scene. Evidence collection vans idled on the forecourt. Senior detectives from the Criminal Investigations Directorate carried document cases inside alongside members of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces. The institution constitutionally mandated to hold the executive accountable had, for a morning, become the subject of that accountability itself. At the centre of the investigation is a question that investigators, the Inspectorate of Government, and the international community have been circling for…
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May
20
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Race against time: Scientists hunt for Ebola vaccine as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads across eastern DRC

Race against time: Scientists hunt for Ebola vaccine as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads across eastern DRC

NEWS
HEALTH workers are scrambling to contain a rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, even as scientists race to fast-track a potential vaccine that remains at least two months away - an eternity in an epidemic already crossing international borders. The World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday, its highest alert level, citing what WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the "scale and speed of the epidemic." The declaration unlocks international resources and coordination, but it cannot conjure what the outbreak most urgently needs: an approved…
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May
20
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
“WE ARE CIVILIANS”: M23’s reign of terror in Uvira and the long road to justice

“WE ARE CIVILIANS”: M23’s reign of terror in Uvira and the long road to justice

NEWS
THEY came door to door. Armed, methodical, and merciless. When M23 rebels and Rwandan military forces swept into Uvira on 10 December 2025, they did not merely seize a city - they turned it into a killing field. One man fleeing with his family on that first terrible morning watched four relatives fall as soldiers opened fire on them. "It was chaos," he told investigators later. "We had small bags that we threw off, and we ran. I wasn't hit, so I just ran to the lake. I saw my brother, his wife, and two of his children fall." That…
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May
20
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Court strips NNPC steering committee insider of private jet bought with Chinese contract bribes

Court strips NNPC steering committee insider of private jet bought with Chinese contract bribes

NEWS
A Nigerian court has permanently stripped a Borno State government appointee of a luxury private jet he allegedly purchased using bribe money extracted from a Chinese construction giant awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in federal oil contracts - money that was laundered through a currency dealer who later claimed he knew nothing about the transaction. Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Monday granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission a final forfeiture order against a Hawker 125 private jet, model 800XP, registration number 5N-AMK, ruling that its owner had failed to demonstrate that…
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May
20
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
The man who kept Mandela’s voice in a wardrobe box

The man who kept Mandela’s voice in a wardrobe box

NEWS
FOR nearly two decades, Adrian Hadland carried a secret in his wardrobe. Not a dark secret - but one luminous with history, humming with the voices of giants. Stuffed inside a battered cardboard box were newspaper cuttings, columns, notebooks, and sheaves of paper: the raw, unedited record of one of the most extraordinary periods in human history. It was the birth of a new South Africa, and Hadland had been there - pen in hand, eyes wide open - for every astonishing moment. Now, ahead of Mandela Day on 18 July 2026, Hadland has finally opened that box. The result…
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May
19
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ghana’s sovereignty on trial: The Schiphol trap and the battle for MP Frimpong

Ghana’s sovereignty on trial: The Schiphol trap and the battle for MP Frimpong

NEWS
ON the morning of Sunday, 10 May 2026, a Ghanaian Member of Parliament stepped off a KLM flight at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, passport in hand, family in mind - his wife and children waiting for him in London. He never completed the walk-through immigration. Before the day was done, Kwame Ohene Frimpong, the independent legislator for Asante Akyem North and one of Ghana's most watched political figures, was in Dutch custody, detained on the basis of a US warrant that his own parliament had not seen, could not read, and to this day has not received in authenticated form. What…
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May
19
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Dangote’s multibillion dollar East Africa refinery dream gathers momentum — and powerful enemies

Dangote’s multibillion dollar East Africa refinery dream gathers momentum — and powerful enemies

NEWS
THE man who broke the back of Africa's most humiliating energy dependency - importing refined petroleum from the very crude Africa exports raw - is now turning his transformative vision eastward. And the continent is watching with barely contained excitement. Aliko Dangote, the African Energy Chamber's African Energy Person of the Year 2026, has been crisscrossing East Africa with a proposition that is as audacious as the $19 billion Lagos refinery he built with his own resources when the world's multilateral financial institutions made it structurally impossible for African governments to do so themselves. He is proposing to build an…
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May
19
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
‘For God and My Country’: Among breaks her silence – but the cash speaks louder

‘For God and My Country’: Among breaks her silence – but the cash speaks louder

NEWS
SHE closed with the words 'For God and My Country' - the Ugandan national motto, invoked by politicians in moments of deepest patriotic theatre. But for Anita Annet Among, the former Speaker of Uganda's Parliament, the statement represented something far less noble and far more consequential: a full, formal, and irreversible submission. It was Among's first public communications since a joint security task force led by the Criminal Investigations Directorate, backed by the Uganda People's Defence Forces and other agencies, tore through her palatial Nakasero residence and others in different locations, in a corruption probe into alleged illicit enrichment and…
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