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Mar
25
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Born to privilege, humbled by the dock: Mugabe’s son moves towards a plea deal

Born to privilege, humbled by the dock: Mugabe’s son moves towards a plea deal

NEWS
THERE is a particular kind of silence that descends when the inheritance of power runs up against the impartiality of the law. For Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe, the youngest son of Zimbabwe's late strongman Robert Mugabe, that silence has grown louder with each adjournment at the Alexandra Magistrate's Court - and each night spent in a holding cell rather than a multimillion rands Hyde Park mansion. Mugabe and his co-accused, Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, were back before the court on Tuesday morning, and once again the proceedings ended without resolution. The case has been postponed to 17 April 2026 for further investigation.…
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Mar
25
2026
By The African Mirror
Super Eagles star held at knifepoint in brazen home raid; valuables worth £500,000 stolen

Super Eagles star held at knifepoint in brazen home raid; valuables worth £500,000 stolen

NEWS
IN a shocking act of targeted criminality that has sent tremors through English football and the Nigerian national team's camp, Super Eagles midfielder Alex Iwobi was seized at knifepoint inside his own home by a gang of armed intruders who stripped the Fulham star of valuables estimated at half a million pounds. According to multiple reports published on 24 March 2026, the 29-year-old nephew of Nigerian football legend Jay-Jay Okocha and one of the Premier League's most recognisable African talents, was overpowered by the attackers inside his residence. Held at knifepoint and rendered defenceless, Iwobi watched as the gang systematically…
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Mar
25
2026
By The African Mirror
‘Concrete action, not symbolism’: Africa issues stark warning on racism at UN

‘Concrete action, not symbolism’: Africa issues stark warning on racism at UN

NEWS
THE African Group at the United Nations has issued a pointed call to action on the 60th anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), demanding that the global community move from commemorations to concrete policy - and placing reparatory justice squarely at the centre of the international agenda. Delivering the group's formal statement at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sunday, H.E. Ambassador Issa Konfourou, Permanent Representative of Mali and Chair of the African Group for March 2026, warned that despite six decades of international commitments, millions of people of African descent continue…
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Mar
24
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Nigerian First Lady’s fury: “No custom grants any man the right to violate a woman”

Nigerian First Lady’s fury: “No custom grants any man the right to violate a woman”

NEWS
THE First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON, has personally condemned the mass sexual assault of women and girls at the Alue-Do festival in Ozoro, Delta State, confirming that arrests have already been made and demanding that every perpetrator face the full weight of the law. In a statement she personally signed - a rare and deliberate signal of the gravity with which she regards the incident - Senator Tinubu described the viral footage from Ozoro as "horrific" and “barbaric,” and said no cultural tradition can justify the violation of women’s dignity or freedom. The…
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Mar
24
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Floods wreak havoc in Kenya, kills 81, destroys villages, displace families

Floods wreak havoc in Kenya, kills 81, destroys villages, displace families

NEWS
KENNEDYY Oguta did not sleep on the night the Sondu Miriu River made his home its own. He stood in chest-high water in the darkness of Nyakach, in Kisumu County, holding his youngest child above the waterline with one arm and the rope of a terrified goat with the other, praying - not to be rescued, because rescue seemed too large a word for what he needed - but simply for the water to stop rising. It did not stop. By morning, there was no house in his village that had not been submerged. "There is no house that is…
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Mar
24
2026
By The African Mirror
They are home now

They are home now

NEWS
THE Northern Cape wind was cold, and the sky a vast, cloudless expanse as the descendants of the Nama, Khoi, Korana, Griqua and San people gathered at Kinderlê on Monday to do something their forebears had been denied for over a century: bury their dead with dignity. Sixty-three individuals - their bones carried across oceans, stored in the cabinets of European museums, catalogued as scientific specimens rather than mourned as human beings - came home to the red earth of South Africa. Wooden coffins, draped in the colours of mourning and memory, were carried by members of the very communities…
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Mar
23
2026
By The African Mirror
“This was not a festival. This was lawlessness”

“This was not a festival. This was lawlessness”

NEWS
IN language that left no room for equivocation, Nigeria’s premier legal body on Saturday pronounced the mass sexual assault of women at a traditional festival in Ozoro, Delta State, a “national disgrace” - and demanded that those responsible, including bystanders who cheered and those who failed to intervene, face the full force of the law. The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), in a statement signed by its President, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, and the Chairperson of the NBA Women Forum, Huwaila Muhammad, condemned what it described as “gender-based violence in its most primitive and shameful form,” calling on the Delta State…
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Mar
23
2026
By The African Mirror
Senegal’s Sonko revokes 71 mining licences, freezes $438 million as resource war reshapes West Africa

Senegal’s Sonko revokes 71 mining licences, freezes $438 million as resource war reshapes West Africa

NEWS
IN a nationally televised address that reverberated across boardrooms in London, Singapore and Houston, Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko did something few African leaders have done in living memory: he produced receipts. In a single, measured announcement, Sonko revoked 71 mining and quarry licences - among them 14 permits for gold - declared the gas contract for the BP-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project 'one-sided and unfair', froze the accounts of the country's largest phosphate fertiliser producer, Industries Chimiques du Sénégal (ICS), until it repays the state 250 billion CFA francs ($438 million), and cancelled concessions over at least five…
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Mar
23
2026
By The African Mirror
How Kenya, South Africa are racing to govern AI, podcasts, the new media power

How Kenya, South Africa are racing to govern AI, podcasts, the new media power

NEWS
WITHIN days of each other this month, legislators in two of Africa's most influential democracies have placed the governance of new and powerful media technologies squarely on the political agenda. In Nairobi, nominated Senator Karen Nyamu tabled the Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026 - Kenya's first comprehensive attempt to regulate the lifecycle of AI systems. In Cape Town, South Africa's Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies announced a landmark roundtable on the regulation of podcasting, scheduled for 24 March 2026. Taken together, the two developments signal a continent-wide inflexion point: African governments are no longer content to watch transformative digital…
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Mar
23
2026
By The African Mirror
Multimillion-dollar cyber fraud scheme: Nigerian extradicted from SA jailed seven and a half years in US

Multimillion-dollar cyber fraud scheme: Nigerian extradicted from SA jailed seven and a half years in US

NEWS
A United States federal court has sentenced James Junior Aliyu, a 30-year-old Nigerian national, to 90 months — seven and a half years — in prison following his conviction on conspiracy charges related to wire fraud and money laundering. Aliyu was extradited from South Africa to face prosecution and, upon completing his sentence, will be deported from the United States. The sentencing, announced on Saturday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), marks the conclusion of a years-long transnational investigation involving authorities on two continents. Aliyu was the last of three Nigerian defendants to plead guilty to his role in…
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