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Jul
14
2022
By The African Mirror
Ahead of Mali withdraw, France prepares future Sahel strategy

Ahead of Mali withdraw, France prepares future Sahel strategy

NEWS
JOHN IRISH FRENCH officials head to Niger to redefine the country's strategy to fight Islamist militants in the Sahel as thousands of troops complete a withdrawal from Mali and concerns mount over the growing threat to coastal West African states. Coups in Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso have weakened France's alliances in its former colonies, emboldened jihadists who control large swathes of desert and scrubland, and opened the door to greater Russian influence. Concerns have grown that the exit of 2,400 French troops from Mali - the epicentre of violence in the Sahel region and strongholds of both al Qaeda…
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Jul
14
2022
By The African Mirror
Gabon’s marauding forest elephants test public patience with green agenda

Gabon’s marauding forest elephants test public patience with green agenda

NEWS
ALESSANDRA PRENTICE and CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE FOREST elephants are smaller than their cousins on the African savannah, but in Gabon their destructive raids of farmers' fields are having an outsized impact on support for the government and its conservation agenda. With over 10% of its land protected in national parks, Gabon has become the main stronghold in central Africa for critically endangered forest elephants, whose relative abundance and marauding habits are undermining efforts to protect them there, authorities and scientists warn. The long-standing conflict has become markedly more acute in the past few years - 2021 saw the most…
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Jul
14
2022
By The African Mirror
Nigerian businesses turn to solar as diesel costs bite

Nigerian businesses turn to solar as diesel costs bite

NEWS
MACDONALD DZIRUTWE NIGERIA'S solar companies are seeing a surge in demand for mini-grids and equipment as businesses in Africa's biggest oil producer look for alternative power sources after the cost of diesel soared locally due to rising global oil prices. Supply constraints could, however, hamper their ability to capitalize on the trend, with some saying they have begun to turn away customers because they are unable to meet demand. Nigeria, Africa's largest economy with a population of more than 200 million people, has installed electricity capacity of 12,500 megawatts but the national grid only provides 4,000 MW at peak, leaving…
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Jul
14
2022
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast asks Mali to immediately release 49 arrested soldiers

Ivory Coast asks Mali to immediately release 49 arrested soldiers

NEWS
IVORY Coast demanded the release of 49 of its soldiers arrested in Mali, an incident that may worsen tensions between Mali's military rulers and other West African nations amid efforts to quell an Islamist insurgency and restore democratic rule. The Ivorian soldiers were arrested on Sunday at Mali's main international airport in the capital Bamako. Mali's military government said the troops arrived without permission, that some of their passports indicated non-military professions, and that they gave differing versions of their mandate. The junta said the soldiers would be considered mercenaries and charged as such, adding that Ivorian authorities were unaware…
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Jul
13
2022
By The African Mirror
Ghana plays catch up in bid to launch Africa’s second digital currency

Ghana plays catch up in bid to launch Africa’s second digital currency

NEWS
CONRAD ONYANGO BIRD, STORY AGENCY GHANA has become the latest African country to begin testing the viability of its central bank-backed digital currency, the eCedi, heating up the race to roll out e-cash on the continent. South Africa and Ghana are now the only African countries at the pilot stage of the process after Nigeria launched the eNaira in October 2021. Ghana is testing an offline version of the eCedi in Sefwi Asafo, a small town in the country's Western North Region, using a contactless smart card. eCedi is a retail Central Bank digital currency that can be used for…
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Jul
13
2022
By The African Mirror
Why this African basketball league is “bigger than basketball”

Why this African basketball league is “bigger than basketball”

NEWS
STAFF REPORTER, BIRD STORY AGENCY AMADOU Gallo Fall is in the car and the connection is lousy. He's on his way to pick up his young daughter and has made time in his hectic schedule to take a call while he drives. We switch to a direct call and the connection improves. The Basketball Africa League president is now based at the league's headquarters in Senegal, but Fall, 56, previously lived in Johannesburg as NBA Vice President and Managing Director for Africa. So he's comfortable driving and talking in the Johannesburg traffic. In fact, this is a man who is…
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Jul
13
2022
By The African Mirror
In Congo, elderly craft clean fuel pellets to keep active

In Congo, elderly craft clean fuel pellets to keep active

NEWS
DJAFFAR AL KATANTY AT 62 years old and recently retired from a government job, Bavon Mubake has found a new calling in making fuel pellets, which earns him money while helping conserve the precious forests of eastern Congo. Mubake collects waste including cardboard as well as maize stalks and leaves. He soaks the mixture, then dries and grinds it into a powder which he mixes with carbonized sawdust and presses into briquettes that can be burnt safely as cooking fuel. "This work helps me to educate my children, to have food on the table, and also to have enough to…
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Jul
13
2022
By The African Mirror
Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting

Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting

NEWS
NQOBILE DLUDLA POLICE are hunting for five attackers who burst into a bar in Soweto, South Africa and killed 15 customers in a hail of at least 137 bullets over the weekend, the police minister said. Nine other people were wounded in the raid in the early hours of Sunday morning that followed closely on two other shootings in a surge of violence that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest murder rates. "It was such a brutality," Police Minister Bheki Cele told a crowd gathered at the scene in Soweto's Orlando East neighbourhood. "These people really came…
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Jul
11
2022
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill 19 people in ‘random’ bar shootings in South Africa

Gunmen kill 19 people in ‘random’ bar shootings in South Africa

NEWS
NQOBILE DLUDLA and TIM COCKS GUNMEN killed 19 people in two apparently random shootings within hours of each other at taverns in South Africa, police said, reinforcing the country's bleak status as a global centre for murder. Attackers armed with rifles and pistols opened fire in the Orlando East bar in the township of Soweto in the early hours of Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding nine, police said. "You can see by the way the bullet cartridges are cast around that they were just shooting randomly," said Elias Mawela, police commissioner for Gauteng province. Sololo Mjoli's two sons, Sthembiso,…
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Jul
12
2022
By The African Mirror
Spanish court allows autopsy of former Angolan leader dos Santos

Spanish court allows autopsy of former Angolan leader dos Santos

NEWS
A Spanish court has ruled that an autopsy be performed on the body of Angola's former president José Eduardo dos Santos who died in a clinic in Barcelona on Friday at the age of 79, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. She said the court had granted the request of a family member for the autopsy, which was yet to take place, but provided no further details. The Carmen Varela family law firm representing dos Santos' daughter Tchizé dos Santos, said earlier she had asked for her father's body to be kept in Spain for a full autopsy due to…
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