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Mar
08
2022
By The African Mirror
Tunisian president appoints members of new top judicial council

Tunisian president appoints members of new top judicial council

NEWS
TUNISIA'S president appointed a temporary replacement for the country's top judicial council, a body he dissolved last month in what his opponents called a move to consolidate his power. President Kais Saied seized executive authority last year and last month broke up the top supreme judicial council which had guaranteed judicial independence. The judges who made up the new temporary body took the oath at the president's palace on Monday. Saied told them: "We are fighting together against the corruption, against those who want to bring down the state. We are in a national liberation battle." The president has said…
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Mar
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Tunisia foils terrorist attack, woman arrrested

Tunisia foils terrorist attack, woman arrrested

NEWS
TUNISIA'S interior ministry said on Saturday that security forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack and arrested a female jihadist suspected of involvement. In a statement, the ministry said investigators believed the woman had planned to kidnap the children of some members of the security forces and the military to try to force the release of people convicted of terrorist offences. She was also suspected of planning to attack a security facility using an explosive belt. The North African nation has been under a state of emergency since 2015 after an attack in which several presidential guards were killed.
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Mar
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Ukraine war: Fleeing students faced racism, extortion

Ukraine war: Fleeing students faced racism, extortion

NEWS
KIM HARRISBERG and NITA BHALLA WITH the sound of shelling over overhead, Nigerian medical student John Adebisi has been trapped for nine days in a basement in the north-east Ukrainian town of Sumy, wracked by fear and without enough money or means to escape. More than 1 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded on February 24, but many more are stuck, particularly foreign students whose governments and families lack planes, cash or connections to get them out. Racism makes it harder to flee, several students said, after watching social media videos of African, Asian and Middle Eastern travellers being…
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Mar
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Ukraine war: Can Africa become Europe’s next gas station?

Ukraine war: Can Africa become Europe’s next gas station?

NEWS
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY EXPERTS expect Europe to ramp up investments into Africa’s natural gas sector to shock-absorb its economy from the unfolding crisis in Ukraine and the potential for energy supplies disruption in the future. In January, the European Union drafted a proposal to classify natural gas projects as “green energy” investments, potentially allowing the block to invest in the sector and at the same time contribute to what African nations are increasingly calling a "just transition" in the energy sector as the continent taps into gas and uses the proceeds to build on its huge green energy…
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Mar
07
2022
By The African Mirror
The rise of dollar millionaires in Africa

The rise of dollar millionaires in Africa

NEWS
CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY A global economic rebound and a boom in Africa’s start-up ecosystem last year supercharged wealth creation on the continent, pushing up the number of dollar millionaires, according to a new survey. The 2022 Knight Frank Wealth Report shows 10,257 more individuals joined the league of the world’s High Net worth Individuals (HNWIs) with a net worth of more than 1 million US dollars - representing an 8.2 percent jump from 2020. The number now stands at more than 135,000, “Last year’s global economic rebound supercharged wealth creation,” said Liam Bailey, Knight Frank’s Global Head of…
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Mar
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Mali denies carrying out massacre

Mali denies carrying out massacre

NEWS
The Malian government has denied allegations the army carried out mass summary executions of civilians in the centre of the country earlier in March. Its statement follows the U.N. peacekeeping mission's decision on Friday to investigate the killing of dozens of people in the rural commune of Diabaly. A video circulating on social media this week showed dozens of badly-burned bodies that were blindfolded and had their hands bound together. Some of them appeared to have holes in the back of their heads. An official in central Mali, who asked not to be named, said the bodies were found on…
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Mar
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Tension, standoff in Tripoli

Tension, standoff in Tripoli

NEWS
AHMED ELUMAMI A long ceasefire has brought life back to Tripoli's Algeria Square, its roundabout replanted with grass and customers lingering into the night at the Aurora Cafe, but Libya's new crisis of two governments threatens to upend that peace. Home to the city hall, post office and a mosque converted from the colonial-era Italian cathedral, Algeria Square plays a big role in the capital's civic life. But it is also near likely front lines in a battle many Libyans fear may soon erupt. The standoff worsened this week as the parliament in the east swore in a new administration…
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Dec
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Children and screens – making it through the holidays

Children and screens – making it through the holidays

NEWS
IT comes as no surprise that children are spending more time watching screens as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents and caregivers in many parts of the world – including South Africa, where I have done research on children’s healthy behaviours – have had a hard time managing their children’s screen time in these last two years. Juggling working-from-home commitments, online educational activities, economic challenges, and illness and grief have been realities, to varying extents, across most households. Screen time can offer a welcome relief when it has all become too difficult to manage. Author CATHERINE DRAPER, Associate Professor,…
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Dec
03
2021
By The African Mirror
U.N. seeks record $41 bln for aid to hotspots led by Afghanistan, Ethiopia

U.N. seeks record $41 bln for aid to hotspots led by Afghanistan, Ethiopia

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE United Nations appealed on Thursday for a record $41 billion to provide life-saving assistance next year to 183 million people worldwide caught up in conflict and poverty, led by a tripling of its programme in Afghanistan. Famine remains a "terrifying prospect" for 45 million people living in 43 countries, as extreme weather caused by climate change shrinks food supplies, the U.N. said in the annual appeal, which reflected a 17% rise in annual funding needs. "The drivers of needs are ones which are familiar to all of us. Tragically, it includes protracted conflicts, political instability, failing economies…
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Dec
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Two journalists wounded after DRC police open fire on protest

Two journalists wounded after DRC police open fire on protest

NEWS
TWO journalists were wounded when police opened fire on a protest outside the provincial parliament in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Bukavu on Thursday, local media and a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Police fired tear gas and live ammunition into a crowd of pro-government demonstrators and journalists, the Reuters reporter said, after 27 of 48 local lawmakers voted to dismiss South Kivu province's administration. Jérémie Zirumana, a spokesperson for South Kivu province's government, dismissed the assembly's vote as invalid, calling it organised cheating and political gangsterism. In the post-vote melee, journalists Crispin Murhula and Jérémie Baraka…
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