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Jul
13
2023
By The African Mirror
Tax-hike protesters clash with Kenyan police, two shot dead

Tax-hike protesters clash with Kenyan police, two shot dead

NEWS
STONE-THROWING demonstrators clashed with police and two were shot dead, officers on the scene said, in anti-tax protests in cities and towns around Kenya called by opposition leader Raila Odinga. Police fired tear gas to disperse protests in the capital Nairobi, the port city of Mombasa and several other towns, according to Reuters reporters and footage aired on Kenyan television stations. Some of the most intense clashes took place on the expressway linking Nairobi to its international airport, where protesters lit fires and pulled down the flower boxes that usually line the road to use as barricades. Police officers patrolling…
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Jul
13
2023
By The African Mirror
Eyeing wider trade ties, Iran’s Raisi starts Africa visit

Eyeing wider trade ties, Iran’s Raisi starts Africa visit

NEWS
IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi received red-carpet welcomes from his counterparts in Kenya and Uganda in launching a three-country tour of Africa that Tehran has touted as a "new beginning" in relations with the continent. Raisi's trip to Africa, which will also take him to Zimbabwe, is the first by an Iranian president in more than a decade and represents a bid to diversify Iran's trade relations in the face of crippling U.S. sanctions. Iran stepped up diplomatic outreach to developing world countries after then-U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from Tehran's nuclear accord with world powers in 2018…
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Jul
13
2023
By The African Mirror
Number of displaced by Sudan war surpasses 3 million, International Organization for Migration says

Number of displaced by Sudan war surpasses 3 million, International Organization for Migration says

NEWS
THE number of people uprooted by a conflict between military factions in Sudan that erupted nearly three months ago has surpassed 3 million, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration. More than 2.4 million people have been displaced internally and more than 730,000 have crossed into neighbouring countries, data published late on Tuesday said. Most have fled either from the capital Khartoum, the focus of the power struggle between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that broke out on April 15, or from Darfur, where ethnically-targeted violence has surged. U.N. officials have said Sudan could slide…
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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Court says Semenya can appeal testosterone limit for female athletes

Court says Semenya can appeal testosterone limit for female athletes

NEWS
EUROPE'S top human rights court ruled in favour of Olympic runner Caster Semenya, saying courts in Switzerland should give her a new chance to fight a requirement that female athletes with high natural testosterone take drugs to lower it. The South African double Olympic 800m champion, 32, had approached the European Court of Human Rights in February 2021 after losing appeals to CAS, the sport's highest court, and the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) in a long-running legal battle. The ECHR ruled, by a slender majority of four votes to three, that Semenya's original appeal against World Athletics regulations had not…
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Jul
12
2023
By NATHAN OMBUNI, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Unheralded frontline heroes are saving lives every day

Unheralded frontline heroes are saving lives every day

NEWS
IN Buhuma Village, Busia County, Western Kenya, villagers know that the person to call when children get ill is Jacinta Rabura. She may not be a doctor but she handles around ten malaria cases a day, amongst other illnesses and emergencies. "Just recently, I received a distress call from a group of children when one of their siblings fell ill when their parents were away. I took the child, arranged for a motorbike, and personally transported them to the hospital until the parents arrived. This is just part of my daily life," Rabura explained. "I only handle mild cases, but…
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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Egypt has contracts to sell $1.9 billion worth of state assets, prime minister says

Egypt has contracts to sell $1.9 billion worth of state assets, prime minister says

NEWS
EGYPT has signed contracts to sell stakes in state assets worth a total of $1.9 billion as part of a programme to boost the private sector and raise scarce hard currency, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said. The contracts include a deal to sell minority stakes in three companies to Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ for $800 million, and a deal to raise $700 million by increasing the capital of a company that owns a group of hotels in Egypt, said Planning Minister Hala el-Said. Egypt's government is trying to accelerate a programme to offload state assets as it struggles…
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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Attack on patrol kills one U.N. peacekeeper in Central African Republic

Attack on patrol kills one U.N. peacekeeper in Central African Republic

NEWS
A United Nations peacekeeper from Rwanda was killed on Monday in an attack on their patrol in northeast Central African Republic (CAR), the U.N. said. The attack took place 3 km (1.86 miles) from the town of Sam-Ouandja. Three of the assailants were killed and one captured during the attack, it said in a statement. U.N. peacekeepers were deployed to CAR in 2014 to help curb violence that broke out a year earlier when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted then-president Francois Bozize, prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias. No militia was directly blamed for the latest attack, which the peacekeeping…
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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria says intercepts vessel with stolen crude, to destroy it

Nigeria says intercepts vessel with stolen crude, to destroy it

NEWS
NIGERIA'S state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd said an 800,000-litre (211,338-U.S. gallon) vessel carrying stolen crude had been intercepted offshore while heading to Cameroon and would be destroyed as a deterrent to oil theft. Crude theft from pipelines and wells in the Niger Delta has hobbled the country's output in recent years and is one of the biggest challenges confronting new President Bola Tinubu. NNPC said the oil was stolen from a well in southwestern Ondo state. The company said the MT Tura II vessel was owned by locally registered Holab Maritime Services Limited and had no valid documentation for the…
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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya’s High Court declines government bid to unfreeze tax hikes

Kenya’s High Court declines government bid to unfreeze tax hikes

NEWS
THE High Court of Kenya dismissed a government bid to unfreeze tax increases that have sparked widespread protests, asking senior judges to direct the case on the hikes that authorities say are needed to cut debt and create jobs. At least two people were killed on Friday during the protests, human rights groups said, as tensions flared over the tax hikes that were introduced at a time when many people were already struggling with high living costs. Justice Mugure Thande declined to grant the government's request to lift the orders, saying the petitioners who sued the government had raised weighty issues that should…
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Jul
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Spain rescues boat with 86 migrants, hundreds likely still missing

Spain rescues boat with 86 migrants, hundreds likely still missing

NEWS
SPANISH maritime rescue that dispatched a plane and a ship to search for a fishing vessel from Senegal with about 200 migrants on board and missing for nearly two weeks, discovered what appears to be a different migrant boat. The reconnaissance plane spotted a boat 71 miles (114 km) to the south of the island of Gran Canaria, which the rescue service initially thought could have been the missing boat. But its spokesperson later said the rescue vessel found 86 people on board and only a further investigation would show where it had sailed from. The boat was being towed…
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