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Apr
13
2023
By KHALID ABDELAZIZ and NAFISA ELTAHIR
Sudan fatwa call worries UN as Bashir loyalists up activity

Sudan fatwa call worries UN as Bashir loyalists up activity

NEWS
THE United Nations expressed concern about a request for a fatwa seeking the assassination of its head in Sudan, as loyalists of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir stepped up opposition to a draft deal for a new civilian government. In a video on social media, a man calling himself only Abdelmoneim is seen speaking to a gathering in Khartoum that included pro-Bashir politicians seeking inclusion in the deal. "I volunteer to assassinate Volker, and I request a fatwa (religious legal opinion) to make his blood permissible," the man said, referring to U.N. envoy Volker Perthes. Government sources said an investigation had…
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Apr
12
2023
By The African Mirror
NIGERIA: The court battle to save the elections

NIGERIA: The court battle to save the elections

NEWS
NIGERIA'S ruling party has asked the Appeals Court to dismiss a petition by third-placed candidate Peter Obi who is challenging the victory of president-elect Bola Tinubu following a disputed election in February, court documents showed. Labour Party's Peter Obi, who came third in the election, and second-placed opposition People's Democratic Party's (PDP) Atiku Abubakar last month separately challenged the results in court. The two candidates said the results were fraudulent, citing Tinubu, his ruling All Progressives Congress Party (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as respondents. The APC said in a countersuit on Tuesday that Obi's petition should be dismissed on several…
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Apr
12
2023
By The African Mirror
‘SA should spend to end blackouts’

‘SA should spend to end blackouts’

NEWS
SOUTH Africa should not shy away from spending to fix the country's power crisis, its electricity minister told Reuters, ahead of a cabinet decision later this month on his proposals to end the worst power blackouts on record. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, appointed last month to the newly created role, was speaking in an interview less than two months after the National Treasury granted state utility Eskom 254 billion rand ($13.81 billion) of debt relief over the next three years. President Cyril Ramaphosa's government has made repeated attempts to improve power availability but failed to make progress. Ramokgopa's appointment is the latest effort to…
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Apr
13
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalis suffering from climate crisis they did nothing to create, U.N. chief says

Somalis suffering from climate crisis they did nothing to create, U.N. chief says

NEWS
SOMALIA is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year. Some 8.3 million Somalis, almost half the population, require urgent humanitarian assistance, Guterres said, adding that only 15% of the country's $2.6 billion aid requirement for this year has been met. "When famine looms, this is totally unacceptable," Guterres told reporters in Mogadishu. He was speaking after visiting a camp in Baidoa, southwest Somalia, for people displaced by the drought…
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Apr
12
2023
By CASPER LÖTTER
Thabo Bester’s escape from a privately-run South African prison raises questions about corruption

Thabo Bester’s escape from a privately-run South African prison raises questions about corruption

NEWS
RECENTLY, South Africans were told about an extraordinary escape story – they learnt that a convicted rapist, Thabo Bester, had been at large for a year after he’d escaped from a privately-run maximum security prison. In May 2022 the Department of Correctional Services reported that he had burnt to death in his cell. But a forensic report – which prison authorities only released recently after dogged reporting by journalists at the news outlet GroundUp, showed that the body wasn’t his. Journalist Ruth Hopkins. Ilse van Velzen Bester was re-arrested in Tanzania over the Easter weekend and arrests have been made…
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Apr
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Explosion kills at least two in Ethiopia’s Amhara amid protests

Explosion kills at least two in Ethiopia’s Amhara amid protests

NEWS
AT least two people were killed by an explosion in the capital of Ethiopia's Amhara region, which has been convulsed by days of protests against the integration of local security forces into the national police and army. Members of Amhara's local military and allied militias said they opposed the government's order to disband and join the federal army or police, sparking days of protests in several towns and cities across the region. On Monday an explosion killed two people and wounded several others in Bahir Dar, according to a police officer. It was not clear what caused the explosion or…
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Apr
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Germany expels Chad’s ambassador in tit-for-tat move

Germany expels Chad’s ambassador in tit-for-tat move

NEWS
BERLIN has ordered Chad's ambassador to Germany to leave the country within 48 hours in response to a similar move by the Central African country last week, the foreign ministry said. "In response to the unfounded expulsion of our Ambassador to Chad, we today summoned the Chadian Ambassador in Berlin, Mariam Ali Moussa, and called on her to leave Germany within 48 hours. We regret that it had to come to this," the ministry said in a tweet. Germany's ambassador to Chad, Gordon Kricke, was expelled from the country last week. The Chadian Communications Ministry said that the decision was a…
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Apr
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigerian sculptor creates dark-skin prosthetics for Black amputees

Nigerian sculptor creates dark-skin prosthetics for Black amputees

NEWS
GABRIELLA OPARA, BIRD STORY AGENCY JOHN Amanam hadn't planned on becoming a prosthetist. With a Fine and Industrial Arts degree, he dreamed of becoming a world-renowned sculptor. However, an accident in the family changed that trajectory - and launched a career. "My younger brother's accident in 2019 made him lose his fingers. He was so worried, and you could see the sadness on his face as he looked at his hands. He was about 21 at the time. So, I decided to help him," said Amanam. Amanam's determination to help his brother initially received pushback from medical practitioners. "My brother's…
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Apr
11
2023
By The African Mirror
Hundreds of South Africans tie the knot in Easter mass wedding

Hundreds of South Africans tie the knot in Easter mass wedding

NEWS
CARIEN DU PLESSIS and SIYABONGA SISHI MORE than 800 couples walked down the aisle on Easter Sunday in one of the biggest mass wedding ceremonies in South Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Pentecost Holiness Church blesses polygamous unions, which are common in some African communities, and the church says are authorised by the Bible. Its mass nuptials take place three times a year – at Easter, in December, and also during the celebrations in September of the church's founding in 1962. Lebogile Mamatela, 38, a government employee who became the second wife to the father of her child…
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Apr
05
2023
By The African Mirror
Battle for Africa: Russia accuses US of meeting sabotage

Battle for Africa: Russia accuses US of meeting sabotage

NEWS
RONALD POPESKI THE U.S. is trying to wreck Russia's planned summit with African countries as part of efforts to isolate Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview. Lavrov told the news site Argumenty i Fakty that Moscow was different from Western countries in its relations with Africa in that "we never tell our foreign partners how they are supposed to live. We have no secret agenda." Moscow is preparing for its second summit with African countries, scheduled for the end of July in St. Petersburg, including work on infrastructure, technology and energy projects. "It is true that the…
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