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Apr
18
2023
By CHARLES WACHIRA, BIRD STORY AGENCY
This startup is offering opportunities to People with Disabilities

This startup is offering opportunities to People with Disabilities

NEWS
AT just two years of age, Fredrick Ouko contracted polio. The disease left him with both of his legs permanently damaged. It has also left him determined to ensure that people with disabilities get equal opportunities. Today, the 40-year-old identifies with the 2.2% of his fellow countrymen and women living with some form of disability. "I have known nothing else save for my physical disability. And that is why I clearly understand the potential "my kind" possess. But routinely they are denied employment opportunities because of their disability," says Ouko, founder and director of Riziki Source. Riziki Source is a…
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Apr
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Uganda arrests second minister over alleged theft of iron sheets for relief program

Uganda arrests second minister over alleged theft of iron sheets for relief program

NEWS
UGANDA'S assistant finance minister has been arrested and detained on accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant for a relief program in the restive northeastern Karamoja region, police said. Amos Lugoloobi's arrest is the second of a minister in recent weeks over the roofing sheets' diversion. Police said Lugoloobi's arrest was authorised by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as part of "investigations into the alleged theft and diversion of iron sheets meant for the Karamoja region." "The office of the DPP has sanctioned criminal charges against ... Lugoloobi," a police statement on Twitter said. "As a result, he has…
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Apr
18
2023
By The African Mirror
NIGERIA: Aviation workers strike delays flights

NIGERIA: Aviation workers strike delays flights

NEWS
KAZEEM SANNI DOMESTIC flights in Nigeria were being disrupted, local airlines said, as aviation employees in Lagos blocked roads to the country's busiest local airport to begin a two-day strike in protest over working conditions and wages. The strike is likely to add to problems in a sector that regularly faces jet fuel shortages, which often ground local flights and where international carriers struggle to repatriate revenue from ticket sales due to dollar shortages. Air Peace, which also flies international and regional routes and has the largest fleet, told passengers that "flights across our network will consequently be disrupted" due…
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Apr
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Four Kenyans, told their work on Earth was done, fast to death, police say

Four Kenyans, told their work on Earth was done, fast to death, police say

NEWS
FIFTEEN "radicalised" Kenyan Christians were rescued from a fast which began after they were told they were going to meet their maker, but four died during the rescue mission, police said. All 15 were members of the Good News International Church in the coastal county of Kilifi, police said. "In the process of rescuing the victims, four of them died," police said in an incident report. Charles Kamau, the criminal investigations officer for Malindi sub-county, said the 15 had been radicalised. "They starved after being radicalised by a certain member of a church who told them that their work in…
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Apr
17
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s electoral body voids result in Adamawa governorship race

Nigeria’s electoral body voids result in Adamawa governorship race

NEWS
NIGERIA'S electoral commission halted the announcement of results in Adamawa's state governor election and said the declaration of Aisha Dahiru as the country's first elected female state governor was null and void. Nigerians voted for state governors on March 11 but the election in Adamawa, a largely conservative Muslim state, was inconclusive and supplementary voting was held on Saturday in 69 polling units where a little more than 36,000 voters were registered. Dahiru, the ruling All Progressive Congress party's candidate, has been held up as a pioneer who could pave the way for more women to seek political office in…
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Apr
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Bester in court, the veil on his life slowly lifted

Bester in court, the veil on his life slowly lifted

NEWS
AS Thabo Bester, the recaptured killer-rapist appeared in court to face charges of escaping from jail, where he was serving a life sentence, the mystery that is his life has started to unravel. Bester appeared in the Bloemfontein High Court where his case was remanded to May16. On the same day, the South African government has revealed that Bester is indeed a South African citizen, born at the Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg on 13 June 1986 but his birth was never registered in the National Population Register. SA Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has also revealed that Bester…
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Apr
16
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya launches first operational satellite into space

Kenya launches first operational satellite into space

NEWS
KENYA launched its first operational earth observation satellite onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk's rocket company showed. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought and wildfires, that authorities plan to use for disaster management and to combat food insecurity. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Taifa-1 satellite, took off at about 0648 GMT without incident from Vandenberg Base in California, after three postponements due to bad weather. "Taifa-1 separation confirmed," Space X said in its broadcast when the satellite was released about…
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Apr
15
2023
By CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Electric trains boost for intra-Africa trade

Electric trains boost for intra-Africa trade

NEWS
TANZANIA and Burundi have floated a tender for designing and constructing an electrified railway that will initially connect the two countries and pass through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the countries look to tap AfCFTA, the world's largest single market, and create the continent's second multinational electrified railway. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is set to combine Africa's population of nearly 1.4. billion people and markets with a current combined GDP of over US$ 3 trillion, in a single market. About 282 Kilometer of an electrified Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line will be built from Uvinza in…
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Apr
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisian player dies after setting himself on fire in protest against police

Tunisian player dies after setting himself on fire in protest against police

NEWS
TUNISIAN football player Nizar Issaoui, 35, has died from burns suffered after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest against "police injustice", his family said. Clashes erupted between police and angry protesters in Haffouz, the hometown of Issaoui. Police fired gas to disperse the protesters who had gathered in front of the police headquarters, witnesses told Reuters. Issaoui, a former player for top-flight side US Monastir and a father of four, published a video on Facebook in which he said the reason for his protest was being falsely accused of terrorism in Haffouz, Kairouan, central Tunisia. The striker,…
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Apr
14
2023
By The African Mirror
South Africa targets $111 billion investment goal in tough investor climate

South Africa targets $111 billion investment goal in tough investor climate

NEWS
SOUTH Africa needs to urgently fix energy, transport and security challenges if it is to reverse souring investor sentiment, executives said as President Cyril Ramaphosa targets 2 trillion rands ($111 billion) in new investments over the next five years. Executives were speaking at the South African Investment Conference in Johannesburg, launched by Ramaphosa in 2018 as a way to boost economic activity that had been in decline for over a decade in Africa's most advanced but struggling economy. Mismanagement and corruption at state-owned companies, including power utility Eskom and freight logistics group Transnet, have had a knock-on effect on ports…
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