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Mar
21
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
‘Ekabo!’ — When the King of England spoke Yoruba

‘Ekabo!’ — When the King of England spoke Yoruba

NEWS
WINDSOR Castle has hosted Emperors, Prime Ministers, and heads of state whose entries into its storied Great Hall have barely raised an eyebrow among the stonework. But on the evening of Wednesday, 18 March 2026, the ancient fortress did something it is not accustomed to doing: it blushed. For the first time in nearly a millennium of royal hospitality, its walls heard a reigning British monarch open a State Banquet in Yoruba. "Ekabo. Se Daaa Daa Ni," King Charles III declared, with what palace insiders describe as an admirably straight face, as he welcomed Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and…
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Mar
21
2026
By The African Mirror
Tunisia migrants rights, anti-racism activist jailed for 8 years

Tunisia migrants rights, anti-racism activist jailed for 8 years

NEWS
A Tunisian court has handed down an eight-year prison sentence to Saadia Mosbah, one of the country's most visible migrant rights and anti-racism campaigners, in a ruling that legal analysts and rights defenders say marks a dangerous new chapter in President Kais Saied's campaign to silence dissent. Mosbah, convicted on charges of money laundering and illicit enrichment that her legal team categorically rejects, becomes the latest and most prominent figure to be ensnared in what critics increasingly describe as a judicialised war against civil society. The verdict comes nearly a year after Mosbah was first detained in May 2024, part…
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Mar
20
2026
By The African Mirror
A Queen in exile, dead in Monrovia: the suspicious death of Ntombi Toni Khumalo Jackson

A Queen in exile, dead in Monrovia: the suspicious death of Ntombi Toni Khumalo Jackson

NEWS
ON the morning of 12 March 2026, Ntombikayise Innocentia Khumalo — known to her peers as Toni, and to her Amantungwa/Nguni lineage as their Queen — was found unconscious on the floor of her marital bedroom in Sinkor, Monrovia. Her husband, economist and political commentator Samuel P. Jackson, told police he had just returned home from a television talk show engagement and found her in that state. She was rushed first to St. Joseph Catholic Hospital, then transferred to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, where surgeons performed emergency brain surgery. She never woke up. Within hours, Liberian police who…
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Mar
20
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
How Tanzanian security forces killed hundreds of bystanders in the October 2025 post-election crackdown

How Tanzanian security forces killed hundreds of bystanders in the October 2025 post-election crackdown

NEWS
TANZANIAN security forces killed and injured scores of people who had no part in post-election protests during and after the country's disputed October 2025 general elections, Human Rights Watch has found -  with the organisation warning that at least hundreds may have been killed across the country in what it describes as a brazen security crackdown on dissent. In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch said it had documented the deaths of 31 people not participating in protests and received credible information of a further 19 such deaths. The victims included market vendors, motorcycle taxi drivers, a pregnant…
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Mar
20
2026
By The African Mirror
Nigeria strikes back: army kills 80 jihadists after reign of terror across Borno

Nigeria strikes back: army kills 80 jihadists after reign of terror across Borno

NEWS
NIGERIAN troops dealt a significant blow to Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters on Wednesday, killing at least 80 insurgents - including three senior commanders - and repelling a coordinated pre-dawn assault on a military base near the border town of Mallam Fatori in Borno State. The counterattack, supported by Nigerian Air Force precision strikes and allied Nigerien jets, came as the army signalled it had anticipated the assault and mounted an offensive-defensive response designed to turn ambush into annihilation. The military said it recovered a large cache of weapons - assault rifles, RPG launchers, machine…
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Mar
21
2026
By The African Mirror
Rwanda passes IAEA nuclear infrastructure review as Kigali eyes first SMR by early 2030s

Rwanda passes IAEA nuclear infrastructure review as Kigali eyes first SMR by early 2030s

NEWS
RWANDA has received a broadly positive assessment from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following an eight-day technical review of its nuclear power infrastructure, with international experts confirming that the East African nation has made meaningful strides toward becoming the continent's newest entrant into civilian nuclear energy. The Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR) mission, conducted from 2 to 9 March 2026 at the request of the Rwandan government, concluded that Kigali has demonstrated strong institutional commitment, proactive stakeholder engagement, and early preparation for emergency response — areas the IAEA identified as good practices for other nations developing nuclear energy programmes.…
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Mar
19
2026
By The African Mirror
Patrice Lumumba speaks from the grave

Patrice Lumumba speaks from the grave

NEWS
IN African culture, the dead do not die. They sleep. And if their death was not natural — if they were taken by treachery, by the hands of those drunk on power and colonial privilege — they speak. They speak across decades. They speak from the earth itself. On Tuesday, 17 March 2026, the voice of Patrice Émery Lumumba — Congo's martyred first Prime Minister, Africa's slain prophet of liberation — rang out from beyond the grave with a clarity that not even 65 years of silence, denial, and impunity could dim. A Brussels court ordered 93-year-old Count Etienne Davignon,…
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Mar
19
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
‘Grossly illegal and profoundly unjust’: Senegal’s government declares war on CAF

‘Grossly illegal and profoundly unjust’: Senegal’s government declares war on CAF

NEWS
WHEN a government - not a football federation, not a sports ministry, but the executive arm of a sovereign state - issues a formal press release accusing the continent's premier football body of corruption and vowing to pursue it through international courts, something seismic has happened. That moment arrived on Wednesday morning, when Senegal's Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, Marie Rose Khady Fatou Faye, signed her name to a statement that framed a football dispute as a matter of national honour, institutional integrity, and African justice. The occasion was the response of the Government of the Republic of…
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Mar
19
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Four Decades, One Man: Sassou Nguesso clinches a fifth term — but who comes next?

Four Decades, One Man: Sassou Nguesso clinches a fifth term — but who comes next?

NEWS
THE numbers were never in doubt. When the Republic of Congo's state television announced on Tuesday that President Denis Sassou Nguesso had been re-elected with 94.82% of the vote, diplomats in Brazzaville barely glanced up from their desks. The outcome had been inscribed into the architecture of this election long before a single ballot was cast. What commands attention is not the margin - it is the arithmetic of history. At 82, the former paratrooper who first seized power in 1979, lost it briefly in a 1992 multiparty election, and clawed it back through civil war in 1997, has now…
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Mar
18
2026
By The African Mirror
Suicide bombers strike Maiduguri hospital and markets as insurgency defies Tinubu’s security gains

Suicide bombers strike Maiduguri hospital and markets as insurgency defies Tinubu’s security gains

NEWS
SUICIDE bombers struck the entrance to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, the Post Office market and the Monday Market on the evening of 16 March 2026, killing and wounding scores of civilians in the most devastating jihadist assault on Borno State's capital in years. Hours earlier, Boko Haram fighters had attempted to overrun a military base in Maiduguri's Ajilari Cross suburb, less than four kilometres from the city's international airport, before being repelled by security forces. Sirajo Abdullahi, head of operations for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Maiduguri, confirmed multiple simultaneous explosions across the city. Borno State…
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