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Apr
05
2022
By The African Mirror
Nigerian rail company says 168 missing after attack on train

Nigerian rail company says 168 missing after attack on train

NEWS
THE Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) cannot account for 168 people following an attack on a train last week in which eight people were killed and several wounded, the company has said. Suspected bandits blew up the track on the Abuja-Kaduna route in the northwest of the country and then opened fire on the night train in the late March 28 attack. NRC managing director Fidet Okhiria said in a statement late on Sunday that 168 people were unaccounted for. He did not say if all were passengers or if some NRC staff were among them. The company had not previously…
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Apr
09
2022
By The African Mirror
Tap dreams: rural arid Senegal sits on water it cannot reach

Tap dreams: rural arid Senegal sits on water it cannot reach

NEWS
EDWARD MCALLISTER WHEN the water well began to run low in this remote village in northern Senegal in 2010, the government drilled another one, fit with a shiny metal hand pump and a sign commemorating the investment. Today, it barely emits a trickle, residents say. Desperate in a sweltering region, the community last year raised $5,000 to try again. The new well failed to hit water and has become the butt of a bitter village joke. Kids make mocking sounds from the well mouth, their voices repeating down the empty, waterless shaft. Two studies last month touted groundwater as an…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Draft Sudan deal cements military’s grip

Draft Sudan deal cements military’s grip

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ FACTIONS aligned with Sudan's military have drawn up a deal to form a transitional government that would cement the army's control and bypass pro-democracy groups it shared power with before an October coup, according to a document seen by Reuters and three sources familiar with the agreement. The draft deal comes with the military under pressure from a deteriorating economy and frequent protests that have continued despite a lethal crackdown by security forces. The military takeover derailed a transition that had raised hopes in Sudan of an end to decades of autocracy, civil conflict and economic isolation after…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Africa’s $4-billion cushion against Ukraine war shocks

Africa’s $4-billion cushion against Ukraine war shocks

NEWS
AFREXIMBANK said it had set up a $4 billion trade finance programme to cushion economies and businesses on the continent against shocks arising from the war in Ukraine, that demand for financing already exceeds the amount. Cairo-headquartered Afreximbank said its Ukraine Crisis Adjustment Trade Financing Programme for Africa was approved by its board at the end of March. It said the fund would extend to areas such as oil and metals buy-back financing, commodity export revenue stabilisation and tourism revenue deficit financing. "Given the importance of both Russia and Ukraine as sources of crude oil and gas, raw materials and…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
The engine room: SA government support fuels further investment in vehicle manufacturing

The engine room: SA government support fuels further investment in vehicle manufacturing

NEWS
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY IN March, there were 50, 607 new cars sold in South Africa, representing the biggest sales in that market since October 2019, indicating the level to which the sector has bounced back since being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Top Auto figures also show that 7,184 more units were sold in March than in the same forecast period in 2021, reflecting a 16.5 per cent increase year-on-year. Strong auto sales come as the South African government continues to provide support for an incentive scheme aimed at boosting exports of vehicles and components, with a new…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Jailed head of Sudan’s outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed

Jailed head of Sudan’s outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed

NEWS
THE jailed head of Sudan's former ruling party is to be freed, his lawyer told Reuters, becoming the most senior figure from the deposed regime of Omar al-Bashir to have charges of crimes against the state dropped since a coup last October. Ibrahim Ghandour, who also served as foreign minister in ex-President Bashir's outlawed National Congress Party (NCP), was found innocent of undermining the constitution, financing terrorism, and plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok along with other attacks, lawyer Abdelrahman Alkhalifa said. Leaders of the coup - which ended a power-sharing agreement between civilian political parties and…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Congolese city turns its plastic problem into profit

Congolese city turns its plastic problem into profit

NEWS
IN Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the thousands of plastic bottles thrown into the Ruzizi River routinely clog the hydropower station's turbines, shutting it down for months at a time and plunging the city into darkness. But for Elie Mapenzi Matabaro, the city's plastic problem is an asset, allowing him to both make money and create jobs for young people. Seven years ago, his company, FDA Group, started transforming the bottles and other city waste into cheap, hard-wearing paving slabs that grace driveways and forecourts across the city. "There was no system for protection of the environment. We started…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Blasphemy: Nigerian atheist jailed for 24 year

Blasphemy: Nigerian atheist jailed for 24 year

NEWS
HAMZA IBRAHIM A Nigerian atheist and outspoken critic of religion was sentenced to 24 years in jail after pleading guilty to blasphemy charges in the largely Muslim northern state of Kano, in a ruling that puts a spotlight on religious freedoms in the country. Mubarak Bala Charges against Mubarak Bala are linked to comments he posted on Facebook in April 2020 that were critical of Islam and which authorities in Kano considered blasphemous and an insult to the religion, his lawyer said. When asked by Kano High Court Judge Farouk Lawan whether he had been coerced to enter a guilty…
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Apr
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Tunisian president’s election bombshell

Tunisian president’s election bombshell

NEWS
TAREK AMARA VOTING in Tunisian parliamentary elections that are expected to be held in December will take place in two rounds, and people will vote for individuals rather than lists as in previous elections, President Kais Saied said. Saied's comments confirm that he is moving forward with political changes, although they have not been agreed upon yet with other key players. The president also said that the Independent Electoral Commission (ISIE) would supervise the elections, although not in its current composition, referring to his intention to change some of its members. Saied, who dissolved parliament last week after taking control…
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Apr
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Sankara murder: Ex-Burkina Faso leader jailed for life

Sankara murder: Ex-Burkina Faso leader jailed for life

NEWS
THIAM NDIAGA BURKINA FASO'S former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation's capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a previous putsch. Two of Compaore's former top associates, Hyacinthe Kafando and Gilbert Diendere, were also sentenced to life imprisonment. All three have previously denied involvement in Sankara's death along with eleven other defendants accused of involvement in…
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