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Jul
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia, rebel group trade blame over mass killing in west

Ethiopia, rebel group trade blame over mass killing in west

NEWS
ETHIOPIA'S prime minister and a rebel group have traded blame for a mass killing in Oromiya, the country's most populous region, where hundreds of people have died in recent months in escalating violence. The latest killings took place on Monday in two villages in Kellem Wollega zone, around 400 km (250 miles) west of the capital Addis Ababa, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said. Both the EHRC and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed blamed the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a banned splinter group of an opposition party, for the killings, which Abiy called a "massacre". OLA spokesman Odaa Tarbii…
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Jul
06
2022
By The African Mirror
South African unions accept Eskom wage offer as power cuts bite

South African unions accept Eskom wage offer as power cuts bite

NEWS
BHARGAV ACHARYA and NELLIE PEYTON SOUTH Africa's state-owned utility Eskom and workers' unions signed a wage deal on Tuesday, paving way for a possible resolution to its worst power cuts in two years. Struggling Eskom and its three recognised labour unions signed the agreement for a 7% salary increase a week after Eskom started implementing prolonged power cuts, blaming them on striking workers hampering efforts to bring malfunctioning power units back online. Eskom said power supplies would still take time to recover and urged its staff to return to work to begin the process. "As a result of the strike,…
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Jul
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s opposition guarded on army pledge to leave talks to civilians

Sudan’s opposition guarded on army pledge to leave talks to civilians

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ SUDANESE political parties sidelined by a coup last October gave a guarded response to the army's pledge to step aside from a dialogue initiative and let civilian groups hold talks to form a government. The Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said a speech on Monday by army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan failed to spell out how the military would withdraw from politics, as demanded by the civilian opposition. Burhan's decisions "are a clear manoeuvre and tactical retreat that appear to accept the principle of the army returning to the barracks, while emptying this principle of any…
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Jul
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Libya’s power cuts enrage citizens, spurring protest

Libya’s power cuts enrage citizens, spurring protest

NEWS
AHMED ELUMAMI and AYMAN AL-WARFALI WHEN the power cut out in Libya's Benghazi last week, Haitham al-Ghoul dashed into the street with his five-year-old son Othman to find somewhere to plug in a respirator the child needs to ease asthma attacks. A photograph of Ghoul hugging Othman on the street with the respirator hooked up to a shop's private generator soon went viral on Libyan social media networks, symbolising a power crisis that has infuriated Libyans across political divides. "We suffer a lot from power cuts in Benghazi. I'm just one of many cases," Ghoul said. Frustration at power cuts…
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Jul
05
2022
By The African Mirror
Obituary: Reuters journalist Tsegaye Tadesse had front-row seat to Ethiopian history

Obituary: Reuters journalist Tsegaye Tadesse had front-row seat to Ethiopian history

NEWS
BARRY MALONE and TIKSA NEGERI TSEGAYE Tadesse, a former Reuters correspondent in Ethiopia who had a front-row seat to history and a knack for being in the right place at the right time, has died at 92. An avuncular presence, easily recognisable with his trademark pipes and fedora hats, Tsegaye covered every aspect of Ethiopian news: from the imperial splendour of Emperor Haile Selassie through the brutal rule of the communist Derg regime and the ruinous famine of the 1980s. He later reported with pride on the country's more recent economic transformation, relishing the chance to write about Ethiopia reclaiming…
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Jul
05
2022
By The African Mirror
UN rights mission finds ‘probable’ mass graves in Libya

UN rights mission finds ‘probable’ mass graves in Libya

NEWS
EMMA FARGE and ANGUS MCDOWALL A U.N.-appointed mission to Libya said there are "probable mass graves" yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found, and it urged Tripoli to keep searching. The report to be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council this week details how a militia run by seven brothers executed and imprisoned hundreds of people between 2016-2020, sometimes keeping them in tiny oven-like structures called "the boxes" which were set alight during interrogations. The evidence of kidnappings, murder and torture in Tarhouna, uncovered by the…
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Jul
05
2022
By The African Mirror
West African leaders lift economic and financial sanctions on Mali

West African leaders lift economic and financial sanctions on Mali

NEWS
COOPER INVEEN and CHRISTIAN AKORLIE LEADERS of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali after its military rulers proposed a 24-month transition to democracy and published a new electoral law. The bloc imposed stiff sanctions on Mali in January after the junta said it would not organise democratic elections the following month as initially planned. ECOWAS Commission President Jean Claude Kassi Brou told a news conference that the sanctions will be lifted immediately. Borders with Mali will reopen and regional diplomats will return to Bamako.  "However, the heads of…
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Jul
05
2022
By The African Mirror
Congo and Rwanda to meet for talks amid tensions over rebels

Congo and Rwanda to meet for talks amid tensions over rebels

NEWS
STANIS BUJAKERA and CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi will meet his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame for talks in Angola this week, officials said. There were no details on what they would discuss, but the neighbours have been at diplomatic loggerheads since a surge of attacks in eastern Congo by the M23 rebel group - which Kinshasa accuses Kigali of backing. Rwanda denies supporting the rebels and has, in turn, accused Congo of fighting alongside insurgents - a face-off that has raised fears of fresh conflict in the region. The meeting is likely to occur on Tuesday…
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Jul
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Second woman killed in shark attack in Egypt’s Red Sea

Second woman killed in shark attack in Egypt’s Red Sea

NEWS
TWO women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt's Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said. Two sources told Reuters that the body of a Romanian tourist in her late forties was discovered hours after an attack that left a 68-year-old Austrian woman dead. Both attacks happened within 600 metres of each other, off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh, according to the sources. The ministry said in its statement that a committee had been formed to examine the circumstances of the attacks and any scientific reasons behind them. It also mentioned that the…
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Jul
04
2022
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s Eskom extends daily power cuts for next week amid capacity shortage

South Africa’s Eskom extends daily power cuts for next week amid capacity shortage

NEWS
SOUTH AFRICAN state power utility Eskom said it would extend daily power cuts all through next week as the generation capacity shortage continues. Striking workers, delays in maintenance and creaking old thermal power plants have forced the monopoly power supplier of South Africa to implement one of the worst power cuts in more than two years. "As the generation capacity shortages persist over the next few weeks, load-shedding will continue to be implemented at various stages," the utility said in a statement, cautioning that it will still take a few weeks for the power generation system to fully recover to…
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