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Mar
14
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. will not resume assistance to Ethiopia for most security programs

U.S. will not resume assistance to Ethiopia for most security programs

NEWS
DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS THE State Department on Friday said Washington has decided not to lift the pause in assistance to Ethiopia for most programs in the security sector, days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described acts in Tigray as ethnic cleansing. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that while the United States has decided to resume certain types of assistance, including that related to global health and food security, assistance for other programs and most programs in the security sector would remain paused. "Given the current environment in Ethiopia, we have decided not to lift the assistance pause for…
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Mar
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Egyptian women oppose repressive bill

Egyptian women oppose repressive bill

NEWS
MENNA A. FAROUK WOMEN’S rights could be rolled back 200 years in Egypt under a proposed law that would stop them signing their own marriage certificates, registering their child's birth or travelling abroad without a man's consent, rights activists say. The personal status bill, which was approved by the cabinet in January, would also give fathers priority in child custody - reversing the current law which favours mothers - and allow fathers to prevent mothers travelling with their children. "We completely reject this shocking draft law. It takes us back 200 years," said Nehad Abu El Komsan, head of the…
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Mar
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Highest honour for deceased King of Amazulu

Highest honour for deceased King of Amazulu

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africa has bestowed its highest honour to King Goodwill Zwelithini, the powerful leader of the country's 12 million Amazulu nation, who died yesterday from diabetes-related complications. Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, has announced that King Zwelithini will be given the highest category official funeral, a Special Official Funeral Category 1. This is an honour reserved for individuals who have served the nation with distinction and is a level below a full state funeral, reserved for serving or former heads of state. Ramaphosa also authorised that the national flag be flown at half-mast at every flag station…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
President promises justice as Equatorial Guinea mourns 105 blast victims

President promises justice as Equatorial Guinea mourns 105 blast victims

NEWS
EDWARD MCALLISTER and AARON ROSS Mourners cried out and held up pictures of lost loved ones as Equatorial Guinea held a mass funeral yesterday for the 105 victims of a series of explosions that levelled much of the city of Bata. Soldiers in face masks carried each coffin into Bata’s sports stadium, then laid them out in two lines on the rain-soaked running track. A series of blasts in an army barracks demolished hundreds of buildings, blew out car windows and left residents buried under piles of rubble on Sunday. Hundreds of injured people, many of them children, overwhelmed the…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
New king of African football

New king of African football

NEWS
BILLIONAIRE mining magnate Patrice Motsepe has become the first South African to be crowned head of African football. The 59-year-old Motsepe, ranked by Forbes among the richest men on the continent, was today elected unopposed as the new Confederation of African Football (CAF) president after a deal brokered by FIFA president Gianni Infantino. The last impediment to his coronation, which took place at the CAF Congress in Rabat today, was removed on Monday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on CAF President Ahmad Ahmad for corruption, although reducing his suspension from five to two years. Ahmad…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
A rare female voice at the Libyan top table

A rare female voice at the Libyan top table

NEWS
LIBYA’S first woman foreign minister, Najla el-Mangoush, will be sworn in next week as part of a new unity government, a rare female voice at the top table whose appointment many Libyan women have welcomed. Mangoush, a lawyer who had a role in the transitional council that briefly governed Libya after its 2011 uprising, will be joined by four other women in the cabinet, including Halima Abdulrahman as justice minister. "I think this is a win for all of us women in Libya. I hope it's a first step to going further: a woman reaching head of government," said Afia…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
‘He’s OK’: Tanzania denies Magufuli is sick

‘He’s OK’: Tanzania denies Magufuli is sick

NEWS
DUNCAN MIRIRI and NYASHA NYAUNGWA TANZANIA’S President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, two officials have said, after reports that he had flown abroad in critical condition with COVID-19. Magufuli, 61, is Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptic. He has not been seen in public since February 27. Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who left for Belgium after disputing his election defeat to Magufuli last year, has said the president was flown to the private Nairobi Hospital in neighbouring Kenya and then to India in a coma. However, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa denied that, blaming the narrative on…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
Alarm for DRC’s volcano-watchers

Alarm for DRC’s volcano-watchers

NEWS
HEREWARD HOLLAND and DJAFFAR AL KATANTY STANDING on the serrated edge of Mount Nyiragongo's crater in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, volcanologist Honore Ciraba peered into the lens of a device measuring changes in the size of the volcano's rim. The readings, along with earthquake, temperature and gas data, are crucial to the region's early warning system for the nearby city of Goma, to avoid a repeat of the 2002 eruption when 250 people died and 120,000 were made homeless. Increased volcanic activity and other indicators have experts fretting that another eruption could be on the way. But after the…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
MPs block debate of bill to ease Malawi’s strict abortion law

MPs block debate of bill to ease Malawi’s strict abortion law

NEWS
CHARLES PENSULO LAWMAKERS in Malawi have blocked debate of proposals to ease abortion restrictions in the southern African country, where unsafe terminations contribute to one of the region's highest rates of maternal mortality. Mathews Ngwale, head of the parliamentary health committee and the bill's main sponsor, vowed to present the draft law again in the weeks or months ahead after members of parliament (MPs) rejected a motion to discuss the controversial proposal. The abortion bill, which was first drawn up nearly five years ago, has met strong opposition from church groups in the mainly Christian country including Roman Catholic bishops,…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. blacklists groups in Congo, Mozambique over Islamic State links

U.S. blacklists groups in Congo, Mozambique over Islamic State links

NEWS
MICHELLE NICHOLS THE United States has blacklisted two Islamist extremist groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique as foreign terrorist organizations over accusations of links to Islamic State (ISIS). The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Congo and its leader Seka Musa Baluku and Mozambique's Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama and its leader Abu Yasir Hassan were also named "specially designated global terrorists." The designations prevent travel by members to the United States, freeze any U.S.-related assets, ban Americans from doing business with them and make it a crime to provide support or resources to the movements. The United States dubbed…
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