Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Ok, I Agree
Dec
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority monitoring tensions in Red Sea

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority monitoring tensions in Red Sea

NEWS
EGYPT'S Suez Canal authority said that it was closely monitoring the impact of tensions in the Red Sea after recent attacks by Yemen's Houthis on vessels in the southern part of the basin. Two major freight firms including MSC, the world's biggest container shipping line, said on Saturday they would avoid the Suez Canal as Houthi militants stepped up their assaults. The authority is "closely following the consequences of current tensions," the body's chairman, Osama Rabie, said in a statement. Maritime traffic in the canal was currently normal, he added, without going into further detail. Iran-aligned Houthis have launched attacks against vessels…
Read More
Dec
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Sixty-one migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya – IOM

Sixty-one migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya – IOM

NEWS
SIXTY-ONE migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara, about 110 km (68 miles) from the capital, Tripoli. "The central Mediterranean continues to be one of the world's most dangerous migration routes," IOM said. Deadly incidents this year included one in June, when a fishing boat packed with hundreds of migrants sank off Greece after departing from Tobruk, Libya. The voyage, which was supposed to…
Read More
Dec
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Pockets of violence mar Congo election campaign, threaten vote

Pockets of violence mar Congo election campaign, threaten vote

NEWS
TWO candidates running for parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo's December 20 general election were killed in separate incidents, as a rights group warned in a report that electoral violence risks undermining the vote. A candidate for the ruling coalition in the South Kivu province in the eastern Congo region was killed by unknown gunmen while he was returning from a campaign event on Friday evening, a regional government official told Reuters. Another ruling coalition candidate in Beni, in the North Kivu province, also in eastern Congo, died from gunshot wounds late on Friday night after his campaign convoy was ambushed,…
Read More
Dec
18
2023
By The African Mirror
African countries at COP28: several big wins and a united voice

African countries at COP28: several big wins and a united voice

NEWS
AFRICAN countries entered the recent COP28 negotiations on climate change in high spirits. Before this conference, in September, African government leaders, policymakers, activists and other groups from the continent met at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. The African position and expectations for COP28 were shaped at this summit by the adoption of the Nairobi Declaration. BAMIDELE OLAJIDE, Lecturer, University of Lagos Africa’s main agenda at COP28, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, was to convince global players that they must show more altruism in financially supporting targets to reduce global emissions. For African countries, COP27, hosted by Egypt,…
Read More
Dec
18
2023
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Arab fighters killed babies, boys and men in war on Sudan tribe, mothers allege

Arab fighters killed babies, boys and men in war on Sudan tribe, mothers allege

NEWS
THE Arab militiamen were hunting for boys that day. That’s how they found 2-year-old Ibrahim Saleh. Ibrahim, his baby sister and their mother, Safaa Abdel Karim, were on the run in June, fleeing a weeks-long massacre in the Sudanese city of El Geneina. Arab militiamen had shot, stabbed and burned to death members of their tribe, the darker-skinned Masalit people. Abdel Karim’s husband was among the dead. Along with dozens of women and children, she and her kids were trying to make it to safety in neighbouring Chad. They almost did. About 10 kilometres from the border, she said, Arab paramilitary forces and militiamen…
Read More
Dec
17
2023
By The African Mirror
Zuma says he will not vote for ANC in South Africa’s election

Zuma says he will not vote for ANC in South Africa’s election

NEWS
FORMER South African president Jacob Zuma said he will not campaign for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in the 2024 general election and will vote for a new party, a sign of growing divisions within the ANC ahead of the vote. Zuma, who said he remained an ANC member, has previously lashed out at his successor Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing him of failing as a leader and betraying the ANC with his stance against corruption. On Saturday Zuma repeated the accusations, and cited among other issues the expulsion from the party of its former secretary general after he was…
Read More
Dec
17
2023
By ANGE ADIHE KASONGO
Congo recalls envoys to Kenya and Tanzania over alliance launch in Nairobi

Congo recalls envoys to Kenya and Tanzania over alliance launch in Nairobi

NEWS
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo recalled its ambassadors from Kenya and Tanzania for consultations after a new Congolese military alliance that includes rebels was launched in the Kenyan capital. Alain Tshibanda, spokesperson for Congo's foreign ministry, announced the X platform. The envoy to Tanzania was recalled because Tanzania hosts the headquarters of the East African Community, to which Congo also belongs. Earlier on Saturday, the Kenyan embassy's head of mission had been summoned to the foreign ministry in Kinshasa. The Kenyan government could not immediately be reached for comment. On Friday, Congolese politicians and groups including the M23 rebels, who have seized…
Read More
Dec
17
2023
By The African Mirror
World Bank to provide $750 mln for clean energy projects in Nigeria

World Bank to provide $750 mln for clean energy projects in Nigeria

NEWS
THE World Bank's fund for poor countries plans to provide a credit of $750 million for clean energy projects in Nigeria to increase electricity in Africa's most populous nation, the International Development Association said. The bank said that more than 85 million people lacked access to electricity in Nigeria as of 2021, with households and businesses reliant on expensive diesel and petrol generators. It said the Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) project will be financed by the International Development Association credit and provide access to new or improved electricity supplies to more than 17.5 million Nigerians. "To further…
Read More
Dec
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Chad declares four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata- government statement

Chad declares four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata- government statement

NEWS
THE Chad government said it had declared four Sudanese diplomats persona non grata and ordered them to leave within 72 hours following what it called "grave statements" by Sudanese officials accusing it of interfering in the conflict in Sudan. The diplomats are the first counsellor of the embassy, the defence attache and two consuls. The decision came after "grave statements that lack any basis," made by top Sudanese officer, General Yassir al-Atta, and repeated by Sudan's foreign minister on local television, the statement, signed by Chad's government spokesman, said. "The recurrence of such statements by Sudanese authorities with regards to Chad…
Read More
Dec
17
2023
By FELIX NJINI and OLIVIA KUMWENDA-MTAMBO
South African court denies class action against Anglo American

South African court denies class action against Anglo American

NEWS
SOUTH Africa's High Court has ruled that a class action lawsuit against miner Anglo American brought by victims of alleged historic lead poisoning in Zambia should not go ahead, lawyers for the claimants said. Victims of the alleged poisoning had accused Anglo's South African unit of negligence in controlling emissions of lead into the local environment at a mine it part-owned 50 years ago in Zambia's Kabwe district. Anglo has previously denied the allegations and vowed to defend itself. "We have stated from the outset that this claim is entirely misconceived and it is clear that the court recognised its multiple legal…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram
WhatsApp
Threads