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Apr
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

NEWS
COASTGUARDS have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country's coast to 210 in 10 days. The bodies were in a decomposed state, suggesting they had been in the water for several days, said Houssem Eddine Jebabli told Reuters. The cumulative total of fatalities was unprecedented over such a short period, he said. Numbers of boats carrying migrants - most from sub-Saharan Africa, Syria and Sudan - trying to reach Italy from Tunisia have risen sharply in recent months, in part due to a crackdown on…
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Apr
29
2023
By NOKUKHANYA MUSI – AIMIENOHO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Solar backpack transforming school children’s lives in Eswatini

Solar backpack transforming school children’s lives in Eswatini

NEWS
14-YEAR-OLD Xolile Masango from Macetjeni in eastern Lubombo in the kingdom of Eswatini wants to be a doctor when she grows up to treat her sickly father. She also wants to be able to provide healthcare to her community. Born into a family of three children, her parents make a living from ploughing and weeding the local fields, but their combined wages aren't enough to put food on the table, let alone buy electricity. Masango is one of many Swati girls who can't study after dusk and are therefore less likely to graduate and get jobs that can help pull…
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Apr
30
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria again postpones first census in 17 years

Nigeria again postpones first census in 17 years

NEWS
NIGERIA has postponed a census due to take place next week and a new date will be set by the incoming government, the information ministry said as it announced the latest delay to the country's first census in 17 years. The census had been scheduled for May 3-7, but the ministry said more time was needed to plan for it. It will now be conducted by the new government of President-elect Bola Tinubu, who will be sworn in at the end of May. It is the second postponement this year to the census, the results of which affect the sharing of oil…
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Apr
30
2023
By The African Mirror
Italy’s Meloni defends Britain’s migration deal with Rwanda

Italy’s Meloni defends Britain’s migration deal with Rwanda

NEWS
ITALIAN Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that Britain's plan to send illegal migrants to Rwanda was a deal between two free nations which are safeguarding the safety of the people, adding it was wrong to call it a deportation. Meloni, who heads a right-wing government in Rome, was talking to reporters at the Italian embassy in London after a two-day visit to the British capital during which she met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. "I think that talking about deportation or suggesting that Rwanda would be a country that does not respect rights and would be an inadequate or unworthy nation…
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Apr
28
2023
By DUNCAN MIRIRI and GEORGE OBULUTSA
Kenyan death cult pastor arrested

Kenyan death cult pastor arrested

NEWS
A Kenyan televangelist was arrested after reports of the "mass killing of his followers", the interior minister said, as authorities investigated scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region. As news of pastor Ezekiel Odero's detention spread, officials said the death toll had now reached 103 in the separate cult investigation that has shocked the nation and prompted calls for a crackdown on religious fringe groups. Odero, dressed in white robes and carrying a thick black book, did not respond to reporters' questions as he was escorted into a police station by a uniformed officer.…
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Apr
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Police arrest 11 Ugandan MPs

Police arrest 11 Ugandan MPs

NEWS
POLICE in Uganda detained 11 female members of parliament who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest. The lawmakers were detained just outside the parliament buildings in the capital Kampala as they prepared to march to the Ministry of Internal Affairs where they intended to hand over a protest note to the minister. They were protesting what they said was police brutality and the use of excessive force to disperse various functions organised by female lawmakers in their local constituencies in recent weeks. "I strongly condemn the manner in…
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Apr
29
2023
By The African Mirror
How Sudan’s military factions set path to war as mediation stalled

How Sudan’s military factions set path to war as mediation stalled

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ, NAFISA ELTAHIR and AIDAN LEWIS ALARMED that movements of rival military factions in Sudan could bring bloodshed, a group of mediators pushed for last-ditch talks between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo two weeks ago. But neither of Sudan's two most powerful men showed up to the meeting, convened at presidential offices in central Khartoum at 10 a.m. on April 15, three of the Sudanese mediators said, in details revealed for the first time here. Instead, fighting was breaking out across the country. At about 8.30 a.m. shooting started at the Soba military camp…
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Apr
29
2023
By LAYMAH KOLLIE, BIRD STORY AGENCY
High-speed internet comes to rural Liberia

High-speed internet comes to rural Liberia

NEWS
MILLIONS of Liberians will access high-speed internet services with the deployment of at least 200 telecom towers in the West African country. The deployment announcement was made by Orange Liberia CEO Jean Marius Yao, who added that the telco would also provide technology upgrades in the country. "This two-year partnership will enable us to accelerate our rural coverage with the deployment of over 200 solar-based rural sites, including at least 55 this year, so that all Liberians, no matter where they are, be able to: communicate with their loved ones, communicate with their business partners, receive and transfer money using…
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Apr
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Sudan: Turkish evacuation plane hit

Sudan: Turkish evacuation plane hit

NEWS
SUDAN'S paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shot at a Turkish evacuation plane as it was landing at Wadi Seyidna airport outside Khartoum, damaging its fuel system, Sudan's army said. Hundreds have died and tens of thousands of people have fled in two weeks of conflict between the army and its rival. The two factions agreed late on Thursday to prolong a ceasefire by 72 hours to allow for humanitarian access, but fighting flared in parts of the capital Khartoum on Friday, according to eyewitnesses and live video broadcasts. Turkey's defence ministry confirmed that a Turkish evacuation plane had been fired…
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Apr
29
2023
By NOËL KOKOU TADEGNON, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Togo water

Togo water

NEWS
THE Togolese government is launching the National Strategy for Universal Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation. The program, which will require an investment of 2.2 billion euros, will accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Togo by 2030. For a total cost of 1,450 billion CFA francs (2.2 billion euros), the National Strategy for Universal Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation is one of the largest projects currently carried out by Togo. The initiative launched recently in the capital Lomé will be implemented between 2023 and 2030 by the Togolese Ministry of Water and Village…
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