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Jan
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Ugandans baffled by dead perch on Lake Victoria shore

Ugandans baffled by dead perch on Lake Victoria shore

NEWS
FRANCIS MUSAKA PILES of dead Nile perch have been washing up on the shore of Lake Victoria in Uganda for no obvious reason, threatening the livelihoods of the surrounding communities, locals said. Teddy Nagadya, a fishmonger in Kigungu, a shoreline village in Entebbe town, told Reuters the dead fish have induced panic. "We do not know why Nile Perch are dying yet all the other fish are not dying," she said. Uganda's ministry of agriculture and fisheries said on Sunday that hypoxia - "a usual phenomenon" - may have led to the fish deaths, although fishermen in the area told…
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Jan
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Riots break out in several Tunisian cities

Riots break out in several Tunisian cities

NEWS
RIOTS and violent clashes between Tunisian police and protesters broke out yesterday in the capital Tunis and several other cities for the second consecutive day, as the country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. Tunisian authorities said earlier that they had arrested 240 people, mostly teenagers, after violent clashes with police in several cities overnight and during the day on Sunday. A decade on from a revolution against poverty, corruption and injustice, Tunisia has progressed towards democracy but its economic problems have worsened, with the country on the verge of bankruptcy and public services in a dire situation. The protesters made…
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Jan
18
2021
By The African Mirror
83 dead after militia attack in West Darfur

83 dead after militia attack in West Darfur

NEWS
SOME 83 people have died and 160 people are injured after militia attacks on the West Darfur city of El Geneina in Sudan, a local doctors' union has disclosed. Violence has increased in Darfur in recent months, and two weeks after U.N. peacekeepers stopped patrolling the region ahead of a full withdrawal. After the attacks on Saturday and Sunday, Sudan's defence minister said military reinforcements were being sent to the city. The country's sovereign council said in a statement that members of the armed forces were among the victims. The attacks followed a fight, reported by both local organizations and…
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Jan
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Four police officers killed, one missing, after bandit attack in northwest Nigeria

Four police officers killed, one missing, after bandit attack in northwest Nigeria

NEWS
FOUR police officers were killed and one was missing after armed bandits attacked their convoy in northwest Nigeria on Friday, the Nigerian police said. Around 100 armed men attacked 16 police officers on the Birnin Gwari-Funtua highway as they returned to their headquarters in Kano state, a federal police spokesman said in a statement issued on Sunday. Armed groups of men, commonly called bandits, roam throughout northwest Nigeria, committing armed robberies, kidnappings, cattle theft and even murder. In recent months Nigerians have criticized the government for a lack of security. In December, officials said bandits kidnapped more than 300 schoolboys…
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Jan
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Two die in Ugandan election protests

Two die in Ugandan election protests

NEWS
UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine's party is preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni's election win and condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine, as news emerged of two people killed in protests over the result. Protests broke out on Saturday after results from Thursday's election were announced in two areas, Luwero district north of Kampala and Masaka to the southwest, and security forces killed two people and arrested 23 in total, NTV Uganda reported on Sunday, citing local police. No other details were immediately available about the protests. A nationwide internet blackout since the day before the vote…
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Jan
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Top DJs Fresh and DJ Euphonik pulled off air

Top DJs Fresh and DJ Euphonik pulled off air

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER TWO of South Africa’s top DJs have been pulled off air after a woman laid rape charges against them. DJ Fresh and DJ Euphonik, who both work for 947, were removed from their roles 24 hours after a woman, who first made the allegations on social media, laid charges with the police. Their employer and owner of 947, Prime Media Broadcasting, has announced the decision to pull the pair off the air. The company said the decision was mutual and was reached after a meeting.  Acting Prime Media Broadcasting CEO Geraint Crwys-Wiliams said: “947 and Prime Media…
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Jan
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerians flee Islamist insurgent attack

Nigerians flee Islamist insurgent attack

NEWS
GOVERNMENT troops and several hundred residents have been forced to flee after Islamist insurgents overran a town in northeast Nigeria in an attack claimed by Islamic State, security sources have said. The assault on Marte, which lies on Lake Chad in Borno state, came just two months after residents driven from their homes by Islamist attacks had returned to the town under a government programme. It underscores the precarious security situation in northeast Nigeria, where Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) are active, and the difficulties the government faces as it tries to return people displaced by…
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Jan
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Museveni wins 6th term, rival alleges fraud

Museveni wins 6th term, rival alleges fraud

NEWS
UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country's election commission has announced, but his main rival Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them. The 76-year-old Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6% in Thursday's election. Wine had 3.48 million votes (34.8%), the Electoral Commission said in announcing the final results. The campaign was marked by a deadly crackdown by security forces on Wine, other opposition candidates and their supporters. In the run-up to the vote…
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Jan
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian PM appoints 12 new ministers

Tunisian PM appoints 12 new ministers

NEWS
TAREK AMARA  TUNISIAN Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has named 12 new ministers in a cabinet reshuffle he hopes will inject new blood into his government amid rising political tensions and an unprecedented economic crisis. Mechichi named Walid Dhabi as the new interior minister, having this month sacked Taoufik Charfeddine, who is close to President Kais Saied, a move underscoring tensions between the country's two most powerful leaders Saied and Mechichi are at odds over their respective powers and political alliances, jeopardising the stability required to push through much-needed reforms. Hedi Khairi was named health minister following criticism over the government's…
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Jan
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Libya releases bodies found in mass graves for burial

Libya releases bodies found in mass graves for burial

NEWS
LIBYAN authorities have released two bodies found in mass graves in the city of Tarhouna after the Tripoli government retook it in June from Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA). They are among the first to be identified since the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) began exhuming scores of bodies from numerous sites in and around Tarhouna. Last week Human Rights Watch said hundreds of Tarhouna residents were abducted or reported missing after the local Kaniyat militia took control there in 2015. The Kaniyat, headed by members of the al-Kani family, was allied to the LNA and helped…
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