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May
04
2026
By The African Mirror
THE RIVER GIVETH NOT BACK: Five days, one crocodile, and a terrible truth on the Komati

THE RIVER GIVETH NOT BACK: Five days, one crocodile, and a terrible truth on the Komati

NEWS
THE bridge at Komatipoort does not forgive. Flat and low, it squats a few inches above the Komati River on good days - close enough to the water to seem safe, far enough from common sense to have claimed lives before. On the morning of Monday, 27 April 2026, a 59-year-old businessman known to the small Lowveld town pulled up to it in his black Ford Ranger. The river was running high and angry after heavy rains, its brown skin churning with purpose. He crossed anyway. He never came out the other side. Within hours, police and search-and-rescue teams were…
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May
04
2026
By The African Mirror
Silenced, Jailed, Exiled: Africa’s Press Under Siege

Silenced, Jailed, Exiled: Africa’s Press Under Siege

NEWS
TWENTY-FIVE years after journalist Dawit Isaak was thrown into one of Eritrea's notoriously secret detention facilities - and never released - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its 2026 World Press Freedom Index with an unambiguous verdict: Africa's media is in crisis, and the trajectory is worsening. The RSF index, which ranks 180 countries and territories, classifies the state of press freedom as "difficult" in 24 of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries and "very serious" in five. The report warns that "wars, the criminalisation of journalism and economic challenges are the catalysts of this decline" - a sentence that reads less…
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May
02
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Washington’s Kabila sanction: the strategic convergence of American capital and Congolese power

Washington’s Kabila sanction: the strategic convergence of American capital and Congolese power

NEWS
WHEN the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC0 moved Thursday to impose sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, it was doing far more than punishing a disgraced ex-head of state. It was completing a circle - of geopolitics, mineral capital, and vengeance - that ties Washington, Kinshasa, and the killing fields of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into a single unambiguous arc. OFAC sanctioned Joseph Kabange Kabila for his role in supporting the March 23 Movement (M23) and the Congo River Alliance (AFC), M23's political-military coalition, which seeks to topple the…
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May
02
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Swift death sentence brings closure in Uganda nursery horror, but shadows linger over child safety

Swift death sentence brings closure in Uganda nursery horror, but shadows linger over child safety

NEWS
IN a rare display of expedited justice, a Ugandan court has sentenced 39-year-old Christopher Okello Onyun to death for the brutal stabbing deaths of four toddlers at a Kampala nursery school, delivering a measure of solace to grieving families less than a month after the April 2 attack that ignited nationwide fury. The High Court judge, Alice Komuhangi Khaukha, rejected defense claims of Onyun's mental instability, citing digital evidence from his phone and laptop - including searches for "schools near me" and "ISIS beheading" - as proof of premeditated malice. "I have no doubt in my mind that the search…
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May
02
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
The Sahel’s reckoning: How Mali’s junta is fighting for its life

The Sahel’s reckoning: How Mali’s junta is fighting for its life

NEWS
ON the morning of Saturday, 25 April 2026, the pre-dawn silence over Kati - Mali's main military garrison town, some fifteen kilometres north of the capital Bamako - was shattered by two massive explosions. Within minutes, gunfire was erupting simultaneously at Bamako's international airport, in the northern cities of Kidal and Gao, and in the central town of Sévaré. Mali was simultaneously at war in every corner of its vast, landlocked territory. It was the most devastating and most coordinated assault on Mali's military-led government in nearly fifteen years - and it may prove to be its death blow. By…
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May
01
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Kenya roars for its king of the road: Ruto leads nation in honouring history-maker Sabastian Sawe

Kenya roars for its king of the road: Ruto leads nation in honouring history-maker Sabastian Sawe

NEWS
HE came home on a plane that was saluted by water cannons. He stepped onto Kenyan soil adorned with a traditional wreath of victory, serenaded by dancers, and welcomed by a crush of cameras, government officials, and the two parents who always knew he was destined for something extraordinary. And on Thursday, Sabastian Sawe — the 31-year-old from Kapsabet who remade the history of human achievement — stood before his president and received the nation's gratitude in full. Kenya does not forget its giants. And in Sabastian Sawe, it has produced perhaps its most monumental one yet. On Sunday, 26…
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May
01
2026
By OWN CORRESPONENT
Africa turns on itself: the xenophobia crisis – and the misinformation war – consuming the continent’s promise

Africa turns on itself: the xenophobia crisis – and the misinformation war – consuming the continent’s promise

NEWS
SOMETHING deeply unsettling is unfolding across the African continent. In South Africa, marchers are taking to the streets of Pretoria and Johannesburg in waves, demanding mass deportations of fellow Africans. In Uganda, more than 200 foreign nationals have been swept up in crackdowns targeting undocumented workers. In Ghana, over 600 people were arrested in a single Kumasi predawn swoop, followed by 356 West African nationals repatriated in a Greater Accra operation. The continent, which survived colonialism, apartheid, and Cold War proxy wars on the strength of African solidarity, is now grappling with a crisis it has been reluctant to name…
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May
01
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Museveni assures Ugandans: new sovereignty bill won’t touch private money, remittances, or church donations

Museveni assures Ugandans: new sovereignty bill won’t touch private money, remittances, or church donations

NEWS
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni moved swiftly to calm economic fears over Uganda's controversial Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026, assuring citizens the legislation targets only foreign meddling in policy decisions - not the free flow of private capital, remittances, or church donations that fuel the nation's growth. The long-serving leader has dismissed warnings from his own Bank of Uganda Governor Michael Atingi-Ego as "noise," vowing the bill safeguards Uganda's sovereignty without strangling its open economy. Museveni said:  "None of them (provisions in the legislation) says: ‘Do not send to Uganda or take out of Uganda money you have earned legally anywhere in…
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Apr
30
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ex-Nigerian president, businessmen rally behind former oil minister

Ex-Nigerian president, businessmen rally behind former oil minister

NEWS
THE bribery trial of former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke took a dramatic turn at Southwark Crown Court this week when written statements from former President Goodluck Jonathan and two of West Africa's most powerful oil executives were placed before the jury - each flatly contradicting the prosecution's account of corruption at the heart of Nigeria's petro-state. Jonathan, who appointed Alison-Madueke as oil minister in 2010, told the court through a formal statement that it was entirely normal practice for third parties to make payments on behalf of ministers travelling on official duties abroad. He further confirmed that he had…
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Apr
30
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
‘A country without reserves is not sovereign’: Uganda’s Central Bank governor issues stark economic warning over sovereignty bill

‘A country without reserves is not sovereign’: Uganda’s Central Bank governor issues stark economic warning over sovereignty bill

NEWS
IN a parliamentary appearance that reverberated through Uganda's financial establishment, the Governor of the Bank of Uganda, Michael Atingi-Ego, delivered one of the most consequential warnings to come from an African central banker in recent years: a proposed law ostensibly designed to protect Uganda's sovereignty could, in practice, destroy it. Testifying before a joint sitting of Parliament's Defence and Internal Affairs Committee and the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Atingi-Ego left lawmakers with a blunt and unambiguous verdict on the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, 2026: in its current form, the legislation poses a clear and present danger to Uganda's economy,…
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