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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Protests by SA varsity students spreads

Protests by SA varsity students spreads

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE South African government and tertiary institutions are battling waves of student protests, over the financial exclusion of those who cannot afford fees. Over 24 students were arrested yesterday as protests that started in Johannesburg, spread to Pretoria, Free State and Cape Town. The South African police have been heavily criticised for their heavy-handedness after a bystander was shot dead after he was caught in the middle of rubber bullets fired on protesting students.  SA President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday offered his condolences to the family of Mthokozisi Ntumba, a father of three and civil servant, who was…
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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Garment factory fire kills at least 20 in Egypt

Garment factory fire kills at least 20 in Egypt

NEWS
AT least 20 people were killed and 24 others injured in Egypt yesterday when a fire broke out in a garment factory north of Cairo, the local governor's office said in a statement. The fire started in a four-story factory in El-Obour City, just north of Cairo, at about 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) and was later brought under control, the statement added. Ambulances and fire fighting trucks were sent to the scene and victims were transferred to several nearby hospitals.
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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
How refugees can lift up a whole society

How refugees can lift up a whole society

NEWS
WHEN Agnes Batio fled fighting in Nimule, South Sudan, four years ago with her two children, she saved her family but lost everything else – her house, her income and her hope.  Settling into a new life in Uganda, in the Bidibidi refugee camp, Agnes, 32, sought counselling to help her adjust. But last December, when she learned about a construction job that would allow her to build shelters for people working at the settlement, she felt alive again. It was a chance to act on a dream she had back home, after encountering a woman who worked in the…
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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Shock and uncertainty in Ivory Coast

Shock and uncertainty in Ivory Coast

NEWS
MEDIA COULIBALY and ANGE ABOA IVORY Coast faced shock and uncertainty following the death of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, the West African nation's second premier to die in office in less than eight months. A close ally of President Alassane Ouattara, Bakayoko, who died of cancer a few days after his 56th birthday, was appointed prime minister in July 2020 after the death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ouattara's handpicked successor. Although Ouattara named his chief of staff Patrick Achi as interim prime minister on Monday while Bakayoko was in hospital, Bakayoko's passing leaves a vacuum for Ouattara to…
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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudanese militia leader Musa Hilal freed

Sudanese militia leader Musa Hilal freed

NEWS
A Sudanese militia leader accused by rights groups of atrocities in Darfur has been released from a Khartoum prison following a pardon by Sudan's ruling council, the movement he heads said in a statement. Human rights groups accused Musa Hilal of coordinating Arab militias blamed for atrocities during a conflict in Darfur that left an estimated 300,000 dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hilal has previously denied responsibility for atrocities, saying he mobilised his tribesmen to defend their lands after a government call to popular defence against non-Arab rebels. Darfur's conflict escalated in 2003 as the rebels rose up against Khartoum,…
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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Uganda urged to end abductions

Uganda urged to end abductions

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDA should stop the abductions of opposition supporters and release those illegally detained, New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, adding to pressure on President Yoweri Museveni to end a crackdown on dissidents. In recent months, hundreds of supporters of opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine have been seized and some tortured by state agents, according to his National Unity Platform (NUP). Wine, 39, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, lost to Museveni in a Jan. 14 presidential election marred by widespread violence. He rejected the results, claiming he won. This week, he urged supporters to…
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Mar
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Where’s Magufuli? Tanzanian leader’s absence fuels health concern

Where’s Magufuli? Tanzanian leader’s absence fuels health concern

NEWS
DAVID LEWIS and DUNCAN MIRIRI TANZANIA’S main opposition leader has demanded information on the health of President John Magufuli, a COVID-19 sceptic whose absence from public view in recent days brought speculation he was receiving medical treatment abroad. There was no official statement on Magufuli's health. His director of communications Gerson Msigwa and government spokesman Hassan Abbas did not respond to Reuters messages left seeking comment. The Nation newspaper in neighbouring Kenya reported that an African leader who had not been seen in public for nearly two weeks was being treated for COVID-19 on a ventilator at Nairobi Hospital, a…
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Mar
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian union members protest over possible minimum wage change

Nigerian union members protest over possible minimum wage change

NEWS
ABRAHAM ACHIRGA and CAMILLUS EBOH HUNDREDS of members of Nigeria's main labour unions marched to the parliament building in the capital on Wednesday in protest against a possible change to the minimum wage system. President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 signed into law a bill to increase Nigeria's monthly minimum wage to 30,000 naira ($79) from 18,000. Unions had gone on strike in late 2018 to push for the rise. A bill now under discussion in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, suggests a change whereby the country's 36 states would each set their own minimum wage rather…
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Mar
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast

Thousands flee after Equatorial Guinea blast

NEWS
AARON ROSS  HOSPITALS have run out of morgue space and are piling bodies into refrigerated shipping containers. Radio and television stations are flooded with calls trying to locate the parents of unaccompanied children. Thousands have fled for the countryside. Three days after a series of explosions levelled much of Equatorial Guinea's largest city Bata, killing at least 105 people and injuring more than 600 others, its residents are still coming to grips with the full scale of the tragedy. Drone footage aired on state television showed block after block of public housing in the coastal city either completely destroyed or…
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Mar
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Magashule’s ex-bodyguard jailed for stealing R8m painting

Magashule’s ex-bodyguard jailed for stealing R8m painting

NEWS
RICARDO Mettler, former bodyguard of the former Premier of the Free State, Ace Magushule, was sentenced to an effective 15 years imprisonment in the Free State High Court for stealing a Pierneef painting R8-million. Judge Soma Naidoo sentenced Mettler to 15 years for stealing the painting,  a 2nd 15 years for money laundering and a third 15 years for fraud.  The court found that Mettler pretended that the painting was donated to him by Magashule, and that it legally belonged to him. In addition, Judge Naidoo sentenced Mettler to 12 months for making a false statement to the police, in…
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