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Apr
16
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Nigeria’s airstrike pattern and the civilian toll the military cannot explain away

Nigeria’s airstrike pattern and the civilian toll the military cannot explain away

NEWS
ON a Saturday night in April 2026, Nigerian military jets swept over the northeast of the country in pursuit of Islamist militants. What they hit was a village market. More than 200 people are feared dead. The victims were not combatants. They were traders, buyers, ordinary citizens navigating the brutal economics of survival in one of Africa's most conflict-ravaged regions. It is, by now, a familiar story. And that familiarity is itself the scandal. In the period from January 2023 to April 2026, Nigerian military airstrikes have killed well over 400 civilians across the country's north and northeast - in…
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Apr
16
2026
By The African Mirror
UNHCR funding cuts leave Egypt’s refugee mothers on the edge of collapse

UNHCR funding cuts leave Egypt’s refugee mothers on the edge of collapse

NEWS
NAWAL clutches her youngest son on the cramped balcony of their Cairo tenement, his frail body a stark reminder of the choices no mother should make. The 35-year-old Sudanese widow, widowed by the war that has ravaged her homeland for four merciless years, gets just 1,520 Egyptian pounds ($28) a month from UNHCR – barely enough for survival, yet it's all that's keeping her six children from the streets. "I can only afford school for three of them," she says, voice cracking. "My eldest boy babysits the rest while I scrape by on part-time work. No child should sacrifice their…
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Apr
17
2026
By STAFF REPORTER
Chapungu soars home: ancestral wings cross the Limpopo in sacred return

Chapungu soars home: ancestral wings cross the Limpopo in sacred return

NEWS
IN a moment woven from the threads of eternity, South Africa's Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, crossed the mighty Limpopo River into Harare like a modern-day messenger of the ancestors. There, he placed into the hands of President Emmerson Mnangagwa the final jewel of Zimbabwe's stolen legacy: Chapungu, the eighth and most revered Soapstone Bird, guardian spirit of Great Zimbabwe. Accompanying this celestial bird were the long-exiled bones of forebears from Chivhu, Goromonzi, Mazowe, Kwekwe, and Mberengwa - sacred vessels of memory, now pulsing back to the earth that birthed them. Carved from a single, sun-kissed block…
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Apr
16
2026
By The African Mirror
FROM ALGIERS TO YAOUNDÉ: Pope Leo XIV steps into Africa’s complex heart

FROM ALGIERS TO YAOUNDÉ: Pope Leo XIV steps into Africa’s complex heart

NEWS
POPE Leo XIV has landed in Cameroon carrying the moral and political weight of a first leg that was, by any measure, historic. Algeria gave the world a pope who arrived not as a ceremonial figurehead but as a statesman of faith - willing to confront power, honour the martyred, pray in a mosque, and speak uncomfortable truths to authoritarian governments. What awaits him in Cameroon is an altogether different and, in many ways, far more demanding test. The Algeria chapter of this extraordinary 11-day, four-nation apostolic journey was, from the first moments, saturated in symbolism. Arriving in Algiers on…
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Apr
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Civilians trapped as drone attacks, aid blockades deepen crisis in eastern Congo

Civilians trapped as drone attacks, aid blockades deepen crisis in eastern Congo

NEWS
DRONE strikes have killed civilians, destroyed a community radio station, and punched holes through a church roof in the remote highlands of South Kivu, as armed groups and government forces block humanitarian aid and prevent terrified residents from fleeing, Human Rights Watch has warned. The findings, published ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the Democratic Republic of Congo scheduled for April 15, paint a picture of systematic civilian suffering in one of Africa's most neglected conflict zones - where food prices have quintupled, medicine has run out, and phone networks have been dark for more than a year.…
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Apr
15
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
From OPEC throne to the dock: Diezani faces her reckoning

From OPEC throne to the dock: Diezani faces her reckoning

NEWS
THERE was a time when Diezani Alison-Madueke’s voice moved oil markets. When she walked into an OPEC ministerial meeting, a woman in a sea of Arab princes and Gulf potentates, the world paid attention. Nigeria, a country that has produced so few female titans in its political economy, had in her something remarkable: a woman of exceptional ability, commanding presence, and enormous power, presiding over the engine room of the nation’s wealth. That was then. On Monday, the 65-year-old former Petroleum Minister stood in the dock at Southwark Crown Court in London, charged with five counts of accepting bribes and…
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Apr
15
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
First blood: Senegal’s anti-gay law claims its inaugural victim

First blood: Senegal’s anti-gay law claims its inaugural victim

NEWS
HE has no name in the international dispatches. He is described only as a 24-year-old labourer - a young man of working hands and ordinary circumstance - who has now become the face of a new era of state-sanctioned persecution in Senegal A court in the Dakar suburb of Pikine-Guédiawaye has sentenced him to six years in prison and fined him 2 million CFA francs (approximately $3,300 USD) for what the court recorded as "acts against nature and public indecency." He was arrested earlier that same month. He did not have long to live freely before the law found him.…
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Apr
14
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
No escape: US court orders extradition of Ghana’s fugitive boss

No escape: US court orders extradition of Ghana’s fugitive boss

NEWS
THE long arm of the law has finally caught up with one of Ghana's most powerful women of a previous era. On 9 April 2026, US Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Albregts of the District of Nevada issued a formal certification ordering the extradition of Sedina Christine Tamakloe-Attionu - the former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) - to Ghana to serve a 10-year prison sentence with hard labour. The ruling, in Case No. 2:25-mj-00861-DJA-1, concluded what has become one of the most dramatic accountability cases to emerge from Ghana's anti-corruption machinery in recent years: a…
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Apr
14
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
American influencer found dead in Tanzanian hotel; fiancé arrested as family, friends reject suicide claim

American influencer found dead in Tanzanian hotel; fiancé arrested as family, friends reject suicide claim

NEWS
A Miami-based lifestyle influencer found dead in a luxury Tanzanian hotel room has become the centre of an international murder investigation after family, friends and a vast online community refused to accept her fiancé's account that she took her own life. Ashlee Jenae, 31, was found dead at the Serval Wildlife Resort — a $950-a-night property in Tanzania — on approximately 12 April 2026, just seven days after her fiancé, Jon McCann, proposed to her during what was simultaneously a birthday celebration. McCann, identified in finance circles as the founder and chief executive of cryptocurrency investment firm Asymmetric Financial, reportedly…
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Apr
14
2026
By The African Mirror
Why Pope Leo’s trip to Africa is more than a pastoral visit

Why Pope Leo’s trip to Africa is more than a pastoral visit

NEWS
HE landed in Algiers to gun salutes and a state ceremony on Monday, but Pope Leo XIV's arrival in Africa carries a weight that no 21-gun volley can fully capture. In touching down in Algeria — the first Catholic pontiff ever to set foot in that nation — the 70-year-old American-born pope opened the most politically and spiritually freighted chapter of his young papacy. Over the next ten days, across 18 flights covering nearly 18,000 kilometres, through four countries, 11 cities and 25 planned speeches, Leo will attempt something that every modern pope has tried, and none has fully achieved:…
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