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Mar
05
2026
By The African Mirror
The Sting: R1.4 Million in a Briefcase

The Sting: R1.4 Million in a Briefcase

NEWS
THE suspect never saw it coming. As he lifted a bag containing R1.4 million in cash and pressed it into the hands of a city official at the Watershed Centre in Somerset West on Monday afternoon, he was surrounded. Officers from the South African Police Service's Commercial Crime Investigation Unit (CCI) closed in from every angle, badges flashing in the late summer sun. Within seconds, the money was on a table, the Toyota bakkie impounded, and the man in handcuffs. What the suspect didn't know — couldn't have known — was that the official accepting the cash was no ordinary…
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Mar
04
2026
By The African Mirror
“Millions locked out of basic rights as biometric ID systems spread across Africa”

“Millions locked out of basic rights as biometric ID systems spread across Africa”

NEWS
BIOMETRIC digital identification systems being rolled out across Africa are blocking millions of citizens from accessing healthcare, education, voting and social protection -  while creating new tools for government surveillance and control, according to a major new report published by the Institute of Development Studies. The report by the African Digital Rights Network highlights serious concerns about exclusion, rights violations, data protection and accountability, drawing on evidence from ten African countries to show how millions of people are struggling to enrol in or safely use these systems, or are choosing not to participate due to fear and mistrust. Writing in…
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Mar
04
2026
By The African Mirror
U.S. sanctions Rwanda’s entire army after DRC peace deal collapses in days

U.S. sanctions Rwanda’s entire army after DRC peace deal collapses in days

NEWS
THE images were designed to reassure the world. Two heads of state — Rwanda's Paul Kagame and the DRC's Félix Tshisekedi — seated before cameras in Washington, pens in hand, signing what the Trump administration brokered as a historic peace framework for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Diplomats nodded. Aides smiled. The world, exhausted by years of war in the Kivus, was invited to believe that something had changed. It had not. Within days of the signing, M23 fighters - the Rwanda-backed armed group responsible for one of Africa's worst displacement crises — seized Uvira, a strategic city on Lake…
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Mar
04
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
How Africa is scrambling to rescue its own from Iran’s war zone

How Africa is scrambling to rescue its own from Iran’s war zone

NEWS
WHEN Major General Bob Ogiki, Uganda's Defence Advisor in Turkey, shepherded 43 Ugandan students out of bomb-battered Tehran and across the border into safety this week, he was doing something many African governments are struggling to do at all: actually getting people out. African nations are launching an extensive evacuation of their nationals from Iran and other countries in the Middle East in the wake of the escalating security crisis in the region. Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan and Uganda have all been working to move their nationals from harm's way -  but the responses have varied sharply in speed, capacity,…
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Mar
05
2026
By The African Mirror
‘Terror’ Lekota, anti-apartheid icon and COPE founder, dies at 77

‘Terror’ Lekota, anti-apartheid icon and COPE founder, dies at 77

NEWS
TRIBUTES have poured in from across the political spectrum for the freedom fighter who served on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela. Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, one of South Africa's most enduring liberation struggle figures, former Minister of Defence and founding president of the Congress of the People, died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Midrand after a prolonged illness. He was 77. COPE confirmed the death of its president in a statement on Wednesday, saying he passed away after a period of illness. Lekota had stepped back from active political duties in August 2025 to focus on his health, with…
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Mar
02
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
The morning the dream train fell: A story of luxury, loss, fragile promise of the rails

The morning the dream train fell: A story of luxury, loss, fragile promise of the rails

NEWS
THERE is a particular kind of traveller who books the Pride of Africa. They have usually been thinking about it for years. They have read the brochures until the pages are soft at the edges. They have told their friends, their families, their colleagues. They have marked the departure date on their calendars and watched it approach with the slow, building anticipation of something almost too good to believe. For many of them, it is not simply a holiday. It is the journey — the one that stands apart from all the others, the one they will describe for the…
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Mar
03
2026
By The African Mirror
ARRESTED IN SA: The 64-year-old at the heart of OR Tambo’s fake cop syndicate

ARRESTED IN SA: The 64-year-old at the heart of OR Tambo’s fake cop syndicate

NEWS
HE had been arrested 42 times. His criminal record stretches back to 1998. Yet somehow, a 64-year-old serial robber -  linked to armed robbery, possession of an unlicensed firearm, fraud and impersonating a police officer - was still a free man, still prowling the R24 highway outside OR Tambo International Airport, still preying on unsuspecting travellers. On Saturday, his run finally ended. In what police are describing as a major breakthrough in the fight against one of South Africa's most persistent and brazen crime typologies - airport-following robberies carried out by fake police officers - the South African Police Service…
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Mar
03
2026
By The African Mirror
Austin bar shooting: Who was Senegalese Ndiaga Diagne, and what are investigators looking for?

Austin bar shooting: Who was Senegalese Ndiaga Diagne, and what are investigators looking for?

NEWS
IN the early hours of Sunday, March 1, 2026, a gunman opened fire on the crowd outside Buford's Backyard Beer Garden on Austin's West Sixth Street, killing two people and wounding 14 others before police fatally shot him. The attacker has been identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalised American citizen originally from Senegal. The FBI has opened a terrorism investigation -  but as of Monday, the motive remains officially undetermined. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said Diagne was driving a large SUV, which circled the block several times before he stopped, turned on the hazard lights, and began firing…
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Mar
03
2026
By The African Mirror
Africa pays the price of someone else’s war

Africa pays the price of someone else’s war

NEWS
THE missiles striking Iran have not landed on African soil. But their shockwaves are moving fast - through fuel queues in Nairobi, cancelled flights out of Addis Ababa, and the quiet repositioning of US military assets across the Horn. For a continent that had no vote in this conflict and no seat at the table where it was decided, Africa is absorbing consequences that are immediate, structural and deepening. The most direct hit is economic, and it lands hardest on ordinary people. Oil prices have spiked sharply in the wake of US-Israeli strikes on Iran. For import-dependent African economies -…
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Mar
02
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Africa scrambles to protect its citizens as Middle East crisis deepens

Africa scrambles to protect its citizens as Middle East crisis deepens

NEWS
ACROSS the African continent, governments are racing to account for tens of thousands of their citizens caught in the catastrophic fallout from a US-Israeli military assault on Iran -  a conflict that has turned the Gulf's gleaming cities of Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, and Manama into active war zones, grounding flights, severing communications, and plunging families from Johannesburg to Kampala to Lagos into anguish. The crisis began in the early hours of Saturday, 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched a coordinated series of airstrikes against Iranian military and nuclear sites. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…
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