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May
18
2026
By The African Mirror
Three foreign nationals walk free after diamond bust — sentences amount to time served

Three foreign nationals walk free after diamond bust — sentences amount to time served

NEWS
THREE foreign nationals convicted of illegal diamond dealing and related offences in the Northern Cape walked out of the Upington Regional Court as free men last week, with the sentences handed down on 14 May effectively amounting to time already served — a consequence of the more than three years two of the accused spent in custody while awaiting trial. Victor Tapiwa (45) and Sipho Dube (46), both Zimbabwean nationals, along with Roy Owen Chauke (43), a Mozambican national with dual citizenship, were convicted following a trial that arose from an intelligence-driven police roadblock in February 2023. All custodial sentences…
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May
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
RWANDA: Death of a genocide financier buries justice with him

RWANDA: Death of a genocide financier buries justice with him

NEWS
FÉLICIEN Kabuga is dead. He was 93. He died in a Dutch hospital on Saturday while in the custody of the United Nations, still technically on trial, still technically innocent - because the law never got to say otherwise. For the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, that silence is a wound that will not close. The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the UN body overseeing the final chapter of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), confirmed Kabuga's death on Saturday. It was a statement stripped of ceremony. A man accused of financing…
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May
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
US, Nigeria kill ISIS global no. 2 in Lake Chad strike – a commander behind decades of terror

US, Nigeria kill ISIS global no. 2 in Lake Chad strike – a commander behind decades of terror

NEWS
IN a pre-dawn joint operation conducted Friday night, American and Nigerian military forces eliminated Abu-Bilal al-Minuki — the global second-in-command of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the most wanted militant in West Africa — striking his compound in the Lake Chad Basin in a mission that both governments have described as one of the most consequential counterterrorism strikes in the region's modern history. United States President Donald Trump announced the operation late Friday in a post on Truth Social, confirming that the strike was executed at his direction alongside the Armed Forces of Nigeria. "Tonight, at my direction, brave American…
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May
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Killer returns: WHO declares global emergency as deadly Ebola strain sweeps DRC and Uganda

Killer returns: WHO declares global emergency as deadly Ebola strain sweeps DRC and Uganda

NEWS
A lethal strain of Ebola with no approved treatment or vaccine has forced the World Health Organisation to declare a global public health emergency, as communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda count their dead and brace for what health authorities fear could be a far wider catastrophe than current figures reveal. The WHO Director-General on Sunday formally declared the Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) - the organisation's highest alert level - after the disease crossed an international border, appearing simultaneously in Kampala and Kinshasa, signalling that a localised…
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May
18
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
UGANDA: Ex Speaker fights to stay out of jail

UGANDA: Ex Speaker fights to stay out of jail

NEWS
SHE had the throne, the motorcade, and the Rolls-Royce. Now Anita Annet Among - until days ago the most powerful woman in Uganda's Parliament - is battling to keep both her liberty and her backbench seat, after a Museveni-sanctioned, multi-agency raid tore through her palatial Nakasero mansion on Saturday morning in a corruption probe into alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering. It is a stunning fall - and it has been engineered, with devastating swiftness, by the very symbols of excess that Among could not resist displaying. The beginning of the end came three weeks ago, when reports emerged that…
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May
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Starvation as a weapon of spillover: Somalia’s famine warning exposes the human cost of global indifference

Starvation as a weapon of spillover: Somalia’s famine warning exposes the human cost of global indifference

NEWS
AS the world’s gaze remains fixed on the explosive confrontations in the Middle East, a slower, quieter, but equally lethal catastrophe is swallowing Somalia whole. The fallout from distant wars - not drought alone - is now pushing millions of Somalis toward the precipice of formal famine, exposing a brutal new reality: in a fractured global economy, a conflict in one region can trigger a starvation death sentence in another. The UN aid teams have issued a chilling recalibration of the crisis in the Horn of Africa. At least six million people are enduring days without food. Nearly two million…
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May
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
UBUNTU: Motsoaledi’s humble walk to a grieving family exposes the human side of powerful politician

UBUNTU: Motsoaledi’s humble walk to a grieving family exposes the human side of powerful politician

NEWS
THE black official convoy pulled up quietly on a dusty street in Extension 5, a world away from the polished corridors of the Union Buildings. When Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi stepped out, dressed in black and carrying groceries like a mournful neighbour, he did something rare for a sitting cabinet member: he walked into the epicentre of a tragedy his own security detail had caused, and he did not make excuses. Eight days earlier, on the evening of 9 May, Beauty Shoperai, a Zimbabwean mother, and her one-year-old son were mowed down on the N1 highway near Bela-Bela. They had…
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May
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Two Ghanaian brothers, US woman indicted for “Romance scam.”

Two Ghanaian brothers, US woman indicted for “Romance scam.”

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THEY gave themselves aliases to match the scale of their deception. Jamal Abubakari went by “Arrangement.” His twin brother Kamal was “Lancaster.” They were building something, alright - not the romantic lives they promised their victims, but a meticulously engineered criminal apparatus that turned loneliness into liquidity. On Thursday, May 14, 2026, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio unsealed a federal indictment charging the two brothers from Ghana and a 53-year-old American woman, Amanda Joy Opoku-Boachie, also known as Amanda Joy Glum and Amanda Joy Kessei Bierman, with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Money…
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May
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Ghana’s xenophobia paradox: Evacuating citizens from SA while raiding migrants at home

Ghana’s xenophobia paradox: Evacuating citizens from SA while raiding migrants at home

NEWS
IN a striking demonstration of Africa’s fractured migration politics, Ghana is simultaneously executing two opposing state functions: airlifting 300 of its citizens out of South Africa to escape alleged xenophobic violence, while its security forces raid domestic slums to arrest and deport illegal immigrants of other nationalities. The dual-track policy, approved by Foreign Minister Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, exposes a profound irony at the heart of Ghana’s foreign and domestic strategy. Accra demands Pan-African protection for its diaspora in Pretoria while exercising uncompromising sovereign border control against West African neighbors in Madina. The evacuation follows a formal advisory from Ghana’s High…
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May
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Blue light, black consequence: The blood price of South Africa’s untouchable convoys

Blue light, black consequence: The blood price of South Africa’s untouchable convoys

NEWS
ON the morning of Saturday, 9 May 2026, Beauty Shoperai, 37, did what any wife and mother would do. She heard that her husband, Paul Masunda, had been struck and killed by a vehicle on the N1 highway near Bela-Bela in Limpopo. She ran — back across that highway, baby strapped to her back, a terrified teenager trailing behind her — to reach him. She never made it. The vehicle of Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, driven by a member of the Protection Security Services (PSS), struck the family. Beauty Shoperai and her infant were killed. The teenager survived. Three…
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