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Aug
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Brother of ex-president to be extradited

Brother of ex-president to be extradited

NEWS
FRANCE’S highest administrative council, the Conseil d'Etat, has approved the extradition of the younger brother of former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore. Police had detained Paul-Francois Compaore at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in October 2017 on an international arrest warrant related to the 1998 murder of Norbert Zongo, who published Burkina Faso's Independent newspaper. The killing of Zongo, who had been investigating the murder of a driver who worked for Paul-Francois Compaore, became a symbol of repression during Blaise Compaore's 27-year rule, which ended in 2014 at the hands of a popular uprising. Compaore was barred from leaving…
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Aug
01
2021
By The African Mirror
“Rest now, SHO, my ANGEL, my LOVE, my SKAT, my LAAITIE”

“Rest now, SHO, my ANGEL, my LOVE, my SKAT, my LAAITIE”

NEWS
CONNIE FERGUSON THIS day, 20 years ago, July 31, 2001, was the day God brought you into my life, and we haven’t looked back since!  Ours is a once in a lifetime kind of love. We joked about how we were going to be in our old age. How we would take turns supporting each other and being strong for each other.  The irony is we have already been doing that for the past 20 years! Oh, how God has loved me to give me YOU! We were already planning our 20th wedding anniversary in November, assuming that we had…
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Aug
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Over 394 migrants rescued off Tunisia

Over 394 migrants rescued off Tunisia

NEWS
TWO humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean in an operation lasting about six hours, a Reuters witness said. The German and French NGO ships Sea-Watch 3 and Ocean Viking rescued the migrants in Tunisian waters 68 km (42 miles) from the North African coast, near oil facilities and other ships. Sea-Watch 3, which assumed command of the operation, took 141 of the survivors while Ocean Viking took the rest. The yacht Nadir, from the German NGO ResQ Ship, later gave support. It was not clear if there were any deaths or…
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Aug
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Egyptian soldiers killed in anti-terror ops

Egyptian soldiers killed in anti-terror ops

NEWS
EIGHT Egyptian army soldiers have been killed in anti-terrorism operations, the armed forces said have announced. According to an armed forces statement, most of the fighting took place in the northern Sinai, where militants loyal to the Islamic State group operate, "during the last period". It was not clear whether all the soldiers were killed there or in various other regions. Eighty-nine "very dangerous Takfiris" were killed during the fighting in northern Sinai, the statement said, using a term it normally employs to refer to suspected militants. The army confiscated different types of arms and ammunition during the operations and…
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Jan
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Uganda bans social media ahead of election

Uganda bans social media ahead of election

NEWS
UGANDA has banned social media, two days ahead of a presidential election pitting Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, against opposition frontrunner Bobi Wine, a popular singer. In a letter seen by Reuters to internet service providers dated January 12, Uganda's communications regulator ordered them to block all social media platforms and messaging apps until further notice. Internet monitor NetBlocks said its data showed that Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype, Snapchat, Viber and Google Play Store were among a lengthy list of sites unavailable via Uganda's main cell network operators. Campaigning ahead of the vote has been marred by…
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Apr
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Boat carries 1,200 survivors to safety

Boat carries 1,200 survivors to safety

NEWS
EMIDIO JOZINE and EMMA RUMNEY A boat carrying 1,200 survivors of a deadly attack by Islamic State-linked insurgents in northern Mozambique reached safety in the port of Pemba on Thursday, some of them crying on arrival after spending days hiding in the bush. Aid workers were at the crowded port to give food to those disembarking from the green and white ferry, while police and soldiers kept control of crowds of people excited to see relatives rescued during the attack that began last week in Palma, a Reuters reporter at the port said. Many people were believed to have scattered…
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Apr
02
2021
By The African Mirror
On the wrong side of the law

On the wrong side of the law

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER TWO senior crime fighters who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law have been granted bail of R20 000 in the Pretoria Magistrates Court. Advocate Matric Luphondo, a senior prosecutor in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Lieutenant-Colonel Ayanda Plaatjie, from the Hawks and Kebone Masange, the head of the Department of Human Settlement in Mpumalanga were arrested and charged with fraud. It’s the state’s case that the three attempted to bribe a prosecutor to drop the case against Masange, whose citizenship is under investigation. Masange, a Zimbabwean national, was arrested in September 2020 on…
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Apr
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt received 500,000 tourists in January-March 2021

Egypt received 500,000 tourists in January-March 2021

NEWS
EGYPT received 500,000 tourists in the first three months of 2021 and earned tourism revenues of between $600 million and $800 million, deputy tourism minister Ghada Shalabi told Sky News Arabia yesterday. Tourism revenues plunged 70% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with numbers of visitors sinking to 3.5 million from 13.1 million in 2019.
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Apr
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill 30 people in attack in western Ethiopia

Gunmen kill 30 people in attack in western Ethiopia

NEWS
GUNMEN killed 30 people in an attack on a village in the west of the Ethiopian region of Oromiya late on Tuesday, witnesses said. Clashes between ethnic groups have become a major challenge to the government in the country, which took its present form from territorial expansions of the 19th century. Regional officials in Oromiya did not immediately comment on who was behind the killings in the western Wollega Zone of Oromiya. In the past they have blamed similar attacks on an armed group called OLF Shane. Wossen Andarege, a farmer in the area, said that those who survived the…
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Apr
01
2021
By The African Mirror
121 years-old Queen’s chocolate found intact

121 years-old Queen’s chocolate found intact

NEWS
A 121-year-old chocolate bar, from a batch commissioned by Queen Victoria for British troops fighting in South Africa, has been found in its original tin in the attic of an English manor. The chocolate belonged to an English aristocrat who fought in the Second Boer War, Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfield, and was found in his helmet case at his family's ancestral home, 500-year-old Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, eastern England. "Although ...you wouldn't want it as your Easter treat, it is still complete and a remarkable find," said Anna Forrest, Cultural Heritage Curator at the National Trust, a heritage charity that…
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