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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisia detainees start hunger strike

Tunisia detainees start hunger strike

NEWS
THREE prominent opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied who were arrested last month and accused of conspiring against state security have gone on hunger strike, their lawyer and the son of one of them said. Former finance minister Khayam Turki, Attayar party co-founder Ghazi Chaouachi and protest leader Jawher Ben Mbarek were all detained as part of a crackdown on leading critics of Saied that has drawn a rebuke from rights organisations. Islam Hamza, a lawyer for the three men, said they had all begun a hunger strike. Chaouachi's son Youssef told Reuters authorities had told him they were moving…
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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
We killed 35 in the DRC – Islamic State

We killed 35 in the DRC – Islamic State

NEWS
ISLAMIC State claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted the village of Mukondi, around 30 km (20 miles) south of the city of Beni in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the group's Amaq agency reported on Friday. Islamist militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack on the village in retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel activity, an army spokesperson said on Thursday. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenya to set up 136 solar mini-grids for remote communities

Kenya to set up 136 solar mini-grids for remote communities

NEWS
DUNCAN MIRIRI KENYA is constructing 136 solar-powered mini-grids in far-flung areas not properly served by the national electricity grid, the country's energy minister said. Off-grid solar power, spearheaded by start-ups, has gained popularity in Africa in recent years for homes left off mainstream electricity grids. There are more than 3,000 installed solar mini-grids in sub-Saharan Africa, up from 500 in 2010, the World Bank said. Another 9,000 are planned, according to the bank, including the ones to be constructed in Kenya. "The national electricity grid is yet to reach some parts of the country," Energy Minister Davis Chirchir said at…
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Threatened by humans, Kenyan Masai giraffes find new home

Threatened by humans, Kenyan Masai giraffes find new home

NEWS
THIRTEEN Masai giraffes in the Moi Ndabi area in Kenya's Naivasha basin were darted and loaded onto trucks following a rescue effort, after long being threatened by poachers and conflict with local communities. Veterinary doctors and capture officers at the state-run Kenya Wildlife Service have now moved them to conservancies, including to the Loldia farm, some 120 km (75 miles) northwest of the capital Nairobi, where they will be monitored. Kenya Wildlife Service workers attend to a Masai giraffe during its translocation from the community farmland of Moi Ndabi area to Loldia Wildlife Conservancy, near Naivasha in Nakuru County, Kenya…
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Feb
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisia police arrest ex-judges sacked by president, lawyer and media say

Tunisia police arrest ex-judges sacked by president, lawyer and media say

NEWS
TUNISIAN police arrested two former judges who were dismissed by President Kais Saied last year, a lawyer and local media said, on the second day of a wave of detentions of prominent people, including politicians and a businessman. Bechir Akremi and Tayeb Rached, who were among the dozens of judges and members of the judiciary sacked in 2022, were detained by police, Anouar Awled Ali, a lawyer close to the cases, told Reuters. The local Mosaique FM radio network said Akremi's arrest was linked to the investigation into the assassination a decade ago of Chokri Belaid, a political activist. It…
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence

Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence

NEWS
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron will fly to Africa this week in a bid to counter Russian efforts to dislodge France from the continent after Paris suffered a series of military and political setbacks in its former sphere of influence. Macron will visit three African nations around the Congo basin as well as Angola, with the focus of the trip being ostensibly away from France's troubled former colonies in the Sahel, where anti-French sentiment is on the rise. Ahead of the trip on Monday evening, Macron is expected to spell out his new African policy in a speech and press conference…
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Egypt taps private firms and long-delayed museum to revitalise tourism

Egypt taps private firms and long-delayed museum to revitalise tourism

NEWS
PATRICK WERR and AIDAN LEWIS EGYPT, home to ancient pyramids and Red Sea resorts, aims to boost tourism by up to 30% annually over the next five years, bringing in private firms to operate sites and inaugurating a huge museum around the end of 2023, its tourism minister said. But it captures a little under 1% of the global tourism market, said Ahmed Issa, a former banker appointed as tourism minister last summer. The budget for more than 2,000 archaeological sites and 41 museums in the 2021/22 financial year was a modest 3.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($170 million at the…
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s Peter Obi wins in Lagos state in presidential election

Nigeria’s Peter Obi wins in Lagos state in presidential election

NEWS
NIGERIAN presidential candidate Peter Obi, whose campaign attracted young people and urban voters fed up with corrupt politics, won the most votes in the commercial hub of Lagos state, where Africa's biggest city is located. Nigeria's electoral commission began announcing state-by-state results in the national elections on Sunday, though it is not expected to name a victor in the race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari for several days. Obi of the Labour Party got 582,454 votes, just ahead of 572,606 for former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu for the governing All Progressives Congress party, electoral commission data showed on Monday. Lagos was previously…
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Feb
28
2023
By The African Mirror
U.N. humanitarian flights suspended in Congo’s North-Kivu and Ituri provinces, WFP says

U.N. humanitarian flights suspended in Congo’s North-Kivu and Ituri provinces, WFP says

NEWS
THE United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) suspended flights in Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces following an attack on one of the service's helicopters last Friday, the World Food Programme (WFP), said. Flights between the provincial capital Goma and the eastern cities of Beni and Bunia have been suspended until further notice, Claude Kalinga, a WFP spokesperson in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), told Reuters. "On Friday, February 24, a helicopter operated by UNHAS came under heavy fire about ten minutes outside of Goma as it returned from Walikale to Goma," the WFP said in a statement. The…
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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
South Sudan president holds ‘frank deliberations’ with vice president

South Sudan president holds ‘frank deliberations’ with vice president

NEWS
SOUTH Sudan President Salva Kiir held "frank deliberations" with opposition leader First Vice President Riek Machar on Friday, the minister of presidential affairs said, a week after Kiir breached a peace agreement by sacking two top security ministers. The meeting was held in a collegial spirit but ended in deadlock, Machar's office said in a statement. Kiir fired defence minister Angelina Teny, who is also Machar's wife, and interior minister Mahmoud Solomon last Friday moves that threaten to unravel a fragile peace agreement that ended the 2013-18 civil war. The president also handed the defence ministry to his party, a role which,…
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