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May
01
2024
By The African Mirror
Mali forces kill senior figure in Islamic State affiliate

Mali forces kill senior figure in Islamic State affiliate

NEWS
MALIAN forces killed Abu Huzeifa, a commander for a West African affiliate of Islamic State, during a large-scale operation in the northern region of Menaka, the Malian authorities said in a statement read on state television on Monday. Huzeifa's death on Sunday had been confirmed after the operation in the region's Indelimane sector, they said but did not give further details. The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program offers a bounty of up to $5 million for information on Huzeifa for his alleged participation in a 2017 attack in neighbouring Niger that killed four U.S. and four Nigerien soldiers. Over the…
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May
01
2024
By The African Mirror
UK to deport migrants to Rwanda based on group agreed by Kigali, document shows

UK to deport migrants to Rwanda based on group agreed by Kigali, document shows

NEWS
THE first asylum seekers to be deported from Britain to Rwanda will come from a group of 5,700 people that Kigali has agreed in principle to take, according to a British government document published. Under a scheme that has divided political opinion in Britain, anyone who has arrived illegally after Jan. 1, 2022, is eligible to be deported to Rwanda. More than 50,000 people have arrived since that date, official figures show. Last week, Britain passed legislation that aims to override a UK Supreme Court ruling that the policy was unlawful by declaring that Rwanda must be treated as safe…
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May
01
2024
By The African Mirror
Egypt hopeful on Gaza talks, waiting for response, foreign minister says

Egypt hopeful on Gaza talks, waiting for response, foreign minister says

NEWS
EGYPT is hopeful about a proposal for a truce and the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip but is waiting for a final response on the plan from Israel and Hamas, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. A Hamas delegation left the Egyptian capital Cairo late on Monday to consult with the group's leadership on the latest, tweaked proposal and was expected to report back within two days, two Egyptian security sources said. Egypt, alarmed by the prospect of an Israeli ground operation in Rafah where more than one million people took shelter near its border, has made a renewed…
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Apr
30
2024
By The African Mirror
Floods kill at least 45 in central Kenya after dam bursts

Floods kill at least 45 in central Kenya after dam bursts

NEWS
HEAVY rains in central Kenya killed at least 45 people when floodwaters swept away houses and cars in the town of Mai Mahiu, a government minister said. The police said the flooding was caused by a dam that burst, although two local residents said the water had actually broken through a railway embankment after a tunnel that had channelled the water under the tracks was blocked by an earlier landslide. The floodwaters also carried away trees and railway lines. Hours after the rain had let up, local residents pulled motorcycles and household belongings from the mud. Joel Kuria, a farmer,…
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Apr
29
2024
By SARA CRETA and NOUR KHALIL
Inside Egypt’s secret scheme to detain and deport thousands of Sudanese refugees

Inside Egypt’s secret scheme to detain and deport thousands of Sudanese refugees

NEWS
THOUSANDS of Sudanese refugees who escaped to neighbouring Egypt have been detained by Egyptian authorities in a network of secret military bases, and then deported back to their war-torn country often without the chance to claim asylum, an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt has found. The pushbacks uncovered by reporters contravene refugee conventions that Egypt has ratified, and are being carried out as the EU has pledged billions of dollars to Cairo in exchange for the government curtailing migration to Europe, a deal that critics say could make European countries complicit in the abuses taking place.…
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Apr
29
2024
By PULCHERIE ADJOHA
Police fire tear gas to disperse Benin wage protest

Police fire tear gas to disperse Benin wage protest

NEWS
POLICE in Benin fired tear gas to break up a protest over the cost of living called by trade unions and they arrested several senior union figures, witnesses and union officials said. Armed police blocked access to the labour council in the commercial capital Cotonou, surrounding the area where the demonstration was meant to take place and turning away journalists. Some protesters nonetheless gathered nearby, carrying signs and wearing union T-shirts. Police used tear gas to disperse them. Moudassirou Bachabi, who heads the General Confederation of Workers of Benin (CGTB), and Anselme Amoussou, head of union CSA-Benin, were arrested alongside…
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Apr
29
2024
By The African Mirror
Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail

Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail

NEWS
THE legal implication of physically damaging the naira, Nigeria’s currency, came into focus recently with the prosecution of at least two celebrities by the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigeria has a law that prohibits what it terms abuse, which also includes writing on the notes or crumpling them. It also covers naira coins. The law was introduced in 2007 but few Nigerians knew of its existence until now. Public law professor Abiodun Odusote explains why it doesn’t appear to have been effective. Why is this law in the news? Some celebrities ran into trouble with the law based…
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Apr
30
2024
By The African Mirror
Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverage

Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverage

NEWS
BURKINA FASO has suspended several Western and African media over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings, its communications authority said. The move follows similar suspensions of BBC Africa and the U.S.-funded Voice of America for reporting on the HRW investigation that alleged the Burkinabe military executed about 223 villagers in February as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with jihadist militants. The junta-led West African country's communications council said French television network TV5Monde's broadcasts would be suspended for two weeks, while access to its website would be blocked. The websites of German…
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Apr
30
2024
By The African Mirror
Roadside blast kills six telecoms workers on outskirts of Somali capital

Roadside blast kills six telecoms workers on outskirts of Somali capital

NEWS
A roadside explosion killed six Hormuud Telecom employees on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu, the company said. Hormuud Telecom said in a statement that its employees were killed in a "roadside bomb attack" in the Garasbaley district. Al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for similar bombing incidents in the past. Al Shabaab has waged an insurgency in Somalia for nearly two decades, launching attacks on civilian and military targets. It wants to topple the federal government and establish its own rule based on its strict interpretation of Sharia law.
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Apr
28
2024
By The African Mirror
Support for South Africa’s ANC near 40% weeks before election, Ipsos poll shows

Support for South Africa’s ANC near 40% weeks before election, Ipsos poll shows

NEWS
SUPPORT for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general election that could usher in the biggest political change since the end of the apartheid era. While the ANC is still on track to win the most votes on May 29, if it gets less than 50% support it would have to seek one or more coalition partners to govern the country, the first such alliance since the party swept to power under liberation hero Nelson Mandela 30 years ago. "The uncertainty and apprehension surrounding the…
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