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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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Apr
02
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
ZIM: Fists, fear and a constitution for sale

ZIM: Fists, fear and a constitution for sale

NEWS
THE City Sports Centre in Harare is an unlikely theatre for a constitutional drama. It was there, on Tuesday afternoon, that citizens were summoned to participate in public hearings on Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 - legislation critics say is engineered to allow Mnangagwa, who came to power through a 2017 military coup against Robert Mugabe, to circumvent the two-term limit that would otherwise force him from office after 2028. Luckmore Tinashe Gapa. Photo source: X Coltart, a prominent human rights attorney who has long stood at the intersection of law and liberation, was among those who showed up to…
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Apr
02
2026
By The African Mirror
Ten years for being: Senegal signs anti-LGBTQ+ law amid global outcry

Ten years for being: Senegal signs anti-LGBTQ+ law amid global outcry

NEWS
SENEGAL is now a country where a person can be imprisoned for a decade for who they love. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye signed into law on Monday legislation that doubles the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations from five to ten years — a stroke of the pen that human rights advocates say marks a dark turning point for one of West Africa's most celebrated democracies. The law, which appeared in the official journal on Tuesday and takes immediate effect, passed the National Assembly on 11 March with an overwhelming majority: 135 lawmakers voted in favour; none voted against; only…
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Apr
02
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Blood on the lakeshore: M23’s terror reign in Uvira exposed

Blood on the lakeshore: M23’s terror reign in Uvira exposed

NEWS
THE  blood had dried on the walls of two houses on the same street. In the first, a father stood in the room where his 16- and 18-year-old sons were executed. M23 fighters and Rwandan soldiers had broken down the door, found them sheltering inside, and shot them dead. Metres away, four more young men - aged 16 to 23 - were killed trying to hide behind a curtain. Their younger brother survived, badly wounded. A neighbour confirmed what everyone on that street already knew: none of these men were fighters. They were civilians. Their blood still marks the walls.…
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Apr
03
2026
By The African Mirror
SA: Pandemic profiteers stripped bare: SIU nails Mpumalanga PPE fraudsters as R50-billion recovery milestone looms

SA: Pandemic profiteers stripped bare: SIU nails Mpumalanga PPE fraudsters as R50-billion recovery milestone looms

NEWS
KATLEHO O'Hara Mokonyane and Bonelela Mgudlwa thought the fog of a national health emergency would cover their tracks. It did not. The Special Tribunal, acting on investigations by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), has declared two contracts worth a combined R14.3 million constitutionally invalid, unlawful, and void — and ordered both co-owners of Tark Group (Pty) Ltd, formerly Tuwo Rhodesia, to personally disgorge the profits they pocketed at the expense of South African taxpayers. The two judgments, handed down this week, targeted contracts issued by the Mpumalanga Department of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic: R1,080,000 for 60,000 surgical masks, and…
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Apr
02
2026
By JOVIAL RANTAO
RISE, RECLAIM, VOTE: SA’s  IEC sounds the alarm as the Ballot Box beckons

RISE, RECLAIM, VOTE: SA’s  IEC sounds the alarm as the Ballot Box beckons

NEWS
AT first glance, it might appear a ceremonial occasion: a logo reveal, a stage, officials in suits, speeches careful in cadence. But when the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) assembled media, commissioners, political party representatives and civic stakeholders in Midrand, Johannesburg, the stakes were anything but ceremonial. The institution responsible for the world's most-watched young democracy was, in effect, issuing a national emergency notice - wrapped in gold, navy and the three blunt words: Get Up. Show Up. Vote. The reveal of the 2026/27 Local Government Elections logo and tagline marks the opening gun of what will be the…
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Apr
01
2026
By The African Mirror
Blood and gold: The Jebel Iraq massacre and South Sudan’s war within a war

Blood and gold: The Jebel Iraq massacre and South Sudan’s war within a war

NEWS
THE dead lay in the open. Dozens of them, their bodies scattered across a dust-red hillside at Jebel Iraq, a gold mining site just beyond the capital's outskirts, filmed and shared online before Juba had even confirmed the attack. By Monday, police spokesperson Kwacijwok Dominic Amondoc could offer only this: more than 70 dead, many more injured, gunmen unknown. In a country sliding back toward civil war, the bare minimum statement was its own kind of eloquence. The massacre at Jebel Iraq on 29 March was not an isolated crime. It was a symptom - raw and unignorable - of…
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