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May
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Left behind: the five Ghanaians South Africa could not – and would not – put on the plane

Left behind: the five Ghanaians South Africa could not – and would not – put on the plane

NEWS
OF the 300 Ghanaian nationals processed for departure from OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday, 295 boarded the chartered aircraft arranged by the Ghanaian government and flew home. Five did not. Their reasons for being grounded - each distinct, each grounded in a different provision of South African and international law - tell a more complex story than the headline numbers of the week's repatriation operation suggest. The Border Management Authority (BMA), whose Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato confirmed the operation's outcome, characterised the refusals as procedurally correct and consistent with its legal mandate. The African Mirror examines each case in…
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May
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Eight students arrested after 16 girls die in Kenyan school dormitory inferno

Eight students arrested after 16 girls die in Kenyan school dormitory inferno

NEWS
ON the dead of night, while their families slept hundreds of kilometres away, the girls of Utumishi Girls Academy awoke to smoke and flame. It was barely past midnight. The fire tore through one of the school's dormitories in Gilgil, in Nakuru County, central Kenya, with a ferocity that gave many students no time to think — only to run, jump, or be consumed. By dawn on Thursday, 28 May 2026, at least 16 young students were confirmed dead. Seventy-nine others had been rushed to hospitals across the region - some with severe burns, others with broken limbs sustained as…
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May
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Paid to serve, forced to pay: SA’s MK Party Chief Whip arrested for salary extortion scheme

Paid to serve, forced to pay: SA’s MK Party Chief Whip arrested for salary extortion scheme

NEWS
IN the 32 years of the democratic South African parliamentary politics, it would be difficult to recall a more audacious or troubling allegation against a sitting officer of the National Assembly. Mmabatho Nthabiseng Mokoena-Zondi, the Chief Whip of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, appeared before the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Thursday, 28 May 2026, on charges of fraud - having allegedly forced four parliamentary researchers to hand over more than half of their monthly salaries under the false pretence that the funds were required to sustain the legal defence of the party's president, Jacob Zuma. She was granted R30,000 bail…
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May
28
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
EBOLA: “War is making an incurable outbreak uncontainable.”

EBOLA: “War is making an incurable outbreak uncontainable.”

NEWS
EASTERN Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing what the head of the World Health Organization has described as a catastrophic collision of disease and conflict - a convergence of forces that has transformed a dangerous outbreak into a near-uncontainable public health emergency. In an extraordinary public appeal issued this week, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the Ebola Bundibugyo virus is now spreading through Ituri province faster than the international response can track it - and that the ongoing armed conflict in eastern DRC is the single greatest obstacle standing between outbreak and catastrophe. The warning carries…
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May
28
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
The leopard cannot change its spots: Burkina Faso’s junta silences students – and the mask slips again

The leopard cannot change its spots: Burkina Faso’s junta silences students – and the mask slips again

NEWS
IN the morning of 26 May 2026, Burkina Faso’s minister of territorial administration signed a decree that revealed, with the clarity of a confessional, exactly what kind of government Captain Ibrahim Traoré is running in what the country’s own name declares to be the Land of the Upright People. The target was the General Union for Burkina Students - known by its French initials, UGEB - the country’s largest student organisation, founded in 1960. The offence, according to the junta’s prosecutors: “glorification of terrorism.” The actual provocation: a public statement in which UGEB dared to point out that Traoré’s government,…
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May
27
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
“Cold-blooded patricide”: Nigerian billionaire brutally murdered, son in custody

“Cold-blooded patricide”: Nigerian billionaire brutally murdered, son in custody

NEWS
HE had just touched down from Istanbul - barely 48 hours back on Nigerian soil - when Chief Godwin Chinedu Lucky Adimike walked into his luxury mansion on Number 3 Hassan Adamu Street in Abuja's leafy Guzape district. He had come to visit his firstborn son, a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who was also managing some of the family's sprawling real estate portfolio in the capital. It was, by all accounts, a father doing what fathers do: checking in. Making sure the boy was alright. He would not leave that house alive. In the early…
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May
27
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
SENEGAL: Fired premier takes the speaker’s chair, declares war on “Hyper-presidentialism”

SENEGAL: Fired premier takes the speaker’s chair, declares war on “Hyper-presidentialism”

NEWS
THE battle lines in Senegal's deepening political crisis have been firmly and irrevocably drawn. In a stunning turn of events that has reshaped the republic's constitutional landscape almost overnight, Ousmane Sonko was sworn in as President of the National Assembly on Tuesday - barely 48 hours after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed him as Prime Minister. On the same day, Faye moved to fill the executive vacuum by swearing in a new premier, Ahmadou Al Aminou Lô, in a parallel ceremony at the presidential palace. Senegal now has two power centres, and the man at each one is determined to…
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May
27
2026
By BONFACE ORUCHO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
African sport is the new battleground for African corporate capital

African sport is the new battleground for African corporate capital

NEWS
AFRICAN sport is evolving into a structured commercial industry as banks, betting firms, telecoms companies, and consumer brands deepen their role inside leagues, federations, and competition systems across the continent. What began as traditional sponsorship built around advertising and logo visibility is increasingly shifting toward longer-term commercial integration tied to league financing, fan engagement, broadcasting systems, and institutional development. The shift is becoming visible across multiple levels of African sport. In Rwanda, the Rwanda Premier League has recently become the BK Pro League after the Bank of Kigali signed a five-year sponsorship agreement worth approximately Rwf 3.25 billion (US$2.2 million).…
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May
28
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
300 Ghana nationals arrive home from South Africa

300 Ghana nationals arrive home from South Africa

NEWS
THEY LEFT on a chartered flight out of Oliver Reginald Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in the early hours of this morning — 300 Ghanaian men and women, their belongings reduced to what they could carry, their enterprises abandoned, their South African chapters slammed shut by fear. By the time the aircraft touched down at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, they were no longer migrants chasing opportunity in Africa's most industrialised economy. They were evacuees. And that word — with all its freight of emergency, danger, and state failure — is the word that will define this moment in continental…
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May
26
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Africa rises to Ebola: $319m plan, five million dollar pledge, but race against time on Bundibugyo

Africa rises to Ebola: $319m plan, five million dollar pledge, but race against time on Bundibugyo

NEWS
IT is, by any measure, a continent under siege. The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola - for which no approved vaccine or therapeutic exists - is burning through communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, spilling towards borders drawn on maps that mean little to a virus. More than 200 people are dead. Africa CDC has confirmed this is the second-largest Ebola outbreak since the catastrophic West Africa crisis of 2014, which killed more than 11,000. The numbers are grim. The terrain is treacherous. And yet, on the evidence of a high-level ministerial meeting convened this Monday by Africa…
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