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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Mali sets date for delayed vote, saying it’s true to its word on democracy

Mali sets date for delayed vote, saying it’s true to its word on democracy

NEWS
MALI'S military government set a new date for a delayed constitutional referendum meant to pave the way for presidential elections next year. The vote, initially scheduled for March 19, is the first in a series of polls meant to restore democracy in the West African country after two military takeovers since August 2020. It was delayed days before that date to give electoral management authorities more time to set up in all of Mali's 19 administrative regions. Government spokesman Abdoulaye Maiga announced on state television on Friday that the referendum would now take place on June 18. He added that the new…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill journalist in restive northwest Cameroon, says union

Gunmen kill journalist in restive northwest Cameroon, says union

NEWS
AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG GUNMEN shot dead a journalist late in Bamenda, a city in Cameroon's troubled northwest region, the local journalists' union said, in at least the third killing of a media worker in the country this year. Anye Nde Nsoh, the west and northwest region bureau chief for weekly newspaper the Advocate, was in a pub in Bamenda's Ntarikon neighbourhood when unidentified assailants opened fire on him, said colleague Melanie Ndefru, who was close to the scene of the attack. Earlier this year, a radio presenter and a journalist were killed in two separate attacks in or near the…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
DRC: Flood victims buried, death toll rises above 400

DRC: Flood victims buried, 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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May
08
2023
By The African Mirror
Fighting in Khartoum as mediators seek end to Sudan conflict

Fighting in Khartoum as mediators seek end to Sudan conflict

NEWS
FIGHTING could be heard in south Khartoum as envoys from Sudan's warring parties were in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will bring an end to a three-week-old conflict that has killed hundreds and triggered an exodus. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has turned parts of the Sudanese capital into war zones, derailed an internationally backed plan to usher in civilian rule following years of unrest and uprisings, and created a humanitarian crisis. Saudi Arabia will allocate $100 million in humanitarian aid to…
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May
07
2023
By The African Mirror
200 die in DRC killer floods

200 die in DRC killer floods

NEWS
CRISPIN KYALA AT least 176 people have died in flash floods in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional governor said, as heavy rain destroyed buildings and forced aid workers to gather mud-clad corpses into piles. The rainfall in the Kalehe territory in South Kivu province caused rivers to overflow on Thursday, inundating the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi. South Kivu governor Théo Ngwabidje Kasi put the death toll at 176 and said that others were still missing. A local civil society member, Kasole Martin, said 227 bodies had been found. "People are sleeping out in the open, schools…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
ZIMBABWE: Prize-winning novelist acquitted

ZIMBABWE: Prize-winning novelist acquitted

NEWS
NYASHA CHINGONO ACCLAIMED Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was acquitted on Monday by the country's High Court for staging an anti-government protest in 2020, for which she had initially received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine. Dangarembga was found guilty by a lower court in 2022 on charges of participating in a public gathering with intent to incite public violence while breaking COVID-19 protocols, after a protest criticising the government's efforts to deal with corruption and a struggling economy in July 2020. Dozens of political activists were arrested at the time. "I can confirm that she has been acquitted. As her…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s well-off stuck at border town en route to Egypt

Sudan’s well-off stuck at border town en route to Egypt

NEWS
MAGGIE MICHAEL AFTER sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her 18-year-old son gets a visa. A few paces away in the hot, dusty, desert settlement, a family including three pregnant sisters and a grandmother with an oxygen cylinder take turns on rented beds as they await an Egyptian visa for Mohamed, who is 16. Amid the waves of displacement caused by the war in Sudan, many of the country's well-off have…
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May
06
2023
By ANDREW MILLS
Jailed, deported and blacklisted: Qatar’s outspoken World Cup guards

Jailed, deported and blacklisted: Qatar’s outspoken World Cup guards

NEWS
ANDREW Maganga seized the chance to work as a World Cup security guard in Qatar last year, only to be fired along with some 200 others on the last day of the tournament, jailed for protesting over wages, and deported back to his native Kenya. At home in Mombasa, he has little to show for four years working various jobs in gas-wealthy Qatar, having spent his savings paying recruitment agents and supporting his family. Maganga's deportation order, seen by Reuters, cited a charge of "labour strike" and banned him from Qatar, which like other Gulf states forbids workers from organising…
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May
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigerian senator jailed for organ trafficking

Nigerian senator jailed for organ trafficking

NEWS
A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor were jailed by a London court for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ike Ekweremadu had been sentenced to nine years and eight months in Britain's first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, while his wife Beatrice, 56, was sentenced to four years and six months. Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51 - described by prosecutors as a middleman - was jailed for 10 years, the CPS said. All three were convicted in March of conspiring…
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May
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya sets up inquiry into cult deaths, leader to remain in prison

Kenya sets up inquiry into cult deaths, leader to remain in prison

NEWS
KENYAN President William Ruto has appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people believed to have starved themselves to death, while a court ordered that their alleged cult leader remains in prison. Kenyan authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church led by Paul Mackenzie, who they say predicted the world would end on April 15 and instructed his followers to kill themselves to be the first to go to heaven. The death toll stands at 111 but could rise further, in one of the worst cult-related disasters in recent history. Kenyan President William Ruto…
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