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May
11
2023
By The African Mirror
Congo in discussions with Uganda over use of crude pipeline

Congo in discussions with Uganda over use of crude pipeline

NEWS
THE Democratic Republic of Congo is in discussions with neighbouring Uganda for possible use of the east African country's planned crude oil pipeline to export petroleum, Congo's hydrocarbons ministry said. Uganda is developing the $3.5 billion 1,445-kilometer East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) that will start from oil fields in its Albertine rift basin on its western border with Congo to Tanzania's Indian Ocean seaport of Tanga. The pipeline is for transporting Uganda's crude to international markets when the country starts production in 2025. Congo's Ministry of Hydrocarbons said in a Twitter statement late on Tuesday that its minister Didier…
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May
11
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya court denies bail for suspected death cult leader

Kenya court denies bail for suspected death cult leader

NEWS
A Kenyan court denied bail for cult leader Paul Mackenzie, who authorities say ordered followers to starve their children and themselves to death, and extended his detention by 30 days. The death toll climbed to 145 from 133 announced on Tuesday, and hundreds of people are still missing. Authorities are searching for remains in shallow graves scattered throughout a forest where Mackenzie's followers were living. Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, has not yet been required to enter a plea after handing himself over to police last month. A lawyer representing Mackenzie, George Kariuki, has said the self-styled pastor is…
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May
10
2023
By BONFACE ORUCHO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Africa’s green hydrogen boom

Africa’s green hydrogen boom

NEWS
AS the shift towards a green hydrogen economy makes headlines around the world, Africa is fast entrenching its place as a significant supplier of the new energy resource. From Egypt to Angola, Morocco to Djibouti, a growing wave of green hydrogen projects is spreading across the African continent. According to a recent energy consultancy firm Rystad Energy report, Africa's electrolyser pipeline capacity has reached 114 gigawatts, spread across 52 projects. Moreover, Eastern, Southern, Western and Central Africa now constitute over 60% of Africa's announced green hydrogen pipeline capacity - even though North African countries are far closer to the largest…
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May
12
2023
By The African Mirror
SA to probe US claims that it supplied arms Russia

SA to probe US claims that it supplied arms Russia

NEWS
CARIEN DU PLESSIS, NELLIE PEYTON and BHARGAV ACHARYA THE United States envoy to South Africa said he was confident that a Russian ship had picked up weapons in South Africa last year, in a possible breach of Pretoria's declared neutrality in the Ukraine conflict. The rand and South Africa's 2030 government bond extended losses after the U.S. assertion as currency traders said they were worried that South Africa could now face Western sanctions. The government is opening an independent inquiry led by a retired judge into the allegation, the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement. Earlier, Ramaphosa did not…
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May
10
2023
By MAHAMAT RAMADANE, JOE BAVIER and EMMA FARGE
Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

NEWS
WHEN a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run. But four days after seeking refuge in neighbouring Chad - a country with its own dire humanitarian crisis - she had yet to receive any assistance and was just hoping they wouldn't starve. "We're entirely dependent on food Chadian families give us," Issac told Reuters, sitting in a rare patch of shade near the border village of Goungour with other newly arrived women and children,…
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May
10
2023
By EDWIN NYIRONGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
The farmer who tells his crops apart by touch

The farmer who tells his crops apart by touch

NEWS
"YES, I am blind, but when I'm working on the farm, I do not think of myself as such," says Patrick Jonathan Chisale, a farmer from Welemu Village in Malawi's Southern District of Thyolo. He has been farming since 2000, but 52-year-old Chisale was not born blind. "Before I became blind, I loved farming. This is why even after becoming blind, I wanted to continue doing what I loved, and I also wanted to make my family food-secure," he said. After finishing primary school and getting his high school certificate in 1996, Chisale secured a job at a tea estate.…
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May
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Forest search resumes for Kenyan death cult victims of ‘highly organised crime’

Forest search resumes for Kenyan death cult victims of ‘highly organised crime’

NEWS
KENYAN investigators have resumed the search for members of a doomsday cult in a forest where more than 100 corpses, mostly of children, have been exhumed, victims of a "highly organised crime", Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday. Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, has been detained and accused of ordering his followers to starve their children and themselves to death so they could go to heaven before the end of the world, which he predicted was going to happen on April 15. With hundreds of people still thought to be missing, the search operation in…
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May
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives

Thousands still missing as Congo flood survivors search for relatives

NEWS
THE death toll from flooding in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and as wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South Kivu province, ripped through the riverside villages of Nyamukubi and Bushushu five days ago, razing houses, destroying crops and killing more than 400 people, the deadliest natural disaster in Congo's recent history. They have highlighted the vulnerability of people to climate change in many parts of Africa where poor urban planning and weak infrastructure…
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May
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Senegal opposition leader’s presidential bid in doubt after appeal court ruling

Senegal opposition leader’s presidential bid in doubt after appeal court ruling

NEWS
NGOUDA DIONE and DIADIE BA THE presidential bid of a popular Senegalese opposition politician was thrown into doubt after a court of appeal handed him a heavier suspended sentence in a libel case, triggering a small protest in Dakar that riot police quelled with tear gas. The ruling against Ousmane Sonko is the latest twist in a long-running legal saga that he has denounced as politically motivated - a standoff with the authorities that has fuelled unrest in what is widely viewed as one of West Africa's most stable democracies. In March, Sonko received a two-month suspended prison sentence in…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400

Congo flood victims buried en masse as death toll rises above 400

NEWS
ANGE KASONGO and SONIA ROLLEY DEAD bodies were still being recovered on Monday from two villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent history. Survivors looked on as humanitarian workers piled corpses into freshly dug mass graves over the weekend, in videos posted online. The workers have spent days recovering mud-caked bodies from the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi, both in South Kivu province, where days of torrential rain triggered landslides and caused rivers to break their banks on Thursday. "We left…
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