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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Record $30 million compensation for Congo victims

Record $30 million compensation for Congo victims

NEWS
STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG CHILD soldiers and other victims of convicted Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda should get a total of $30 million compensation, International Criminal Court judges ruled on Monday, in their highest ever reparation order. The judges said Ntaganda did not have the resources to pay the compensation himself. Instead they asked the tribunal's own Trust Fund to help set up and finance vocational and other programmes to support victims of his crimes. Ntaganda was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2019 for murder, rape and other atrocities committed when he was military chief of the Union…
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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegal opposition leader released on bail

Senegal opposition leader released on bail

NEWS
DIADIE BA SENEGAL opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was indicted and released on bail under judicial supervision yesterday, his lawyer said, as he faces a rape accusation that has sparked violent protests. Sonko's release could help ease tensions that have buffeted one of West Africa's most stable democracies in the past week, leaving at least eight dead in clashes between protesters and police, right group Amnesty International said yesterday. "He (Sonko) has been indicted for rape and death threats and placed under judicial supervision. He is going home," Sonko's lawyer, Cheikh Koureyssi Ba, told Reuters. Several hundred people gathered outside the…
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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Military barracks blast death toll rises to 98

Military barracks blast death toll rises to 98

NEWS
The death toll from a series of explosions in a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 98, the health ministry has revealed, after volunteers searched the rubble for bodies. At least 615 people were injured in the blasts on Sunday, which started with a fire at the Nkoantoma Military Base in the coastal city of Bata, according to the defence ministry. Citing Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the health ministry put the death toll at 98, more than triple an earlier estimate of 31 killed. Of the wounded, 299 remained hospitalised, the ministry wrote on Twitter. President…
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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudanese couple feed struggling migrants

Sudanese couple feed struggling migrants

NEWS
WHEN a Sudanese couple started a charity to support fellow migrants in Egypt's capital in 2017, the focus was on teaching children and vocational skills for adults. After economic pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic put many out of work, Maysoun Abdelsalam and her husband Moataz Ibrahim pivoted to serving them food. "We felt we were the support for each other, between us refugees. One person brings rice, one brings pasta," said Abdelsalam. The couple, who were working as a journalist and a lawyer, left Sudan because of political pressures and came to Egypt with their three children in 2017…
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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Libyan parliament reunites

Libyan parliament reunites

NEWS
AYMAN AL-WARFALI THE opposing factions of Libya's divided parliament met in a frontline city on Monday for the first time after years of war and chaos, to debate a proposed unity government to oversee national elections this year under an international peace plan. More than 130 parliament members have travelled for the session to Sirte, a city battered by repeated battles since the 2011 NATO-backed rising against Muammar Gaddafi that left Libya with no strong central government for a decade. The city is now held by Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which retreated there last year after failing…
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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Total to take steps to mitigate environmental impact of Uganda, Tanzania projects

Total to take steps to mitigate environmental impact of Uganda, Tanzania projects

NEWS
FRENCH energy giant Total has detailed steps it would take to mitigate the environmental and human impact from its Tilenga project in Uganda and a multibillion-dollar pipeline carrying oil from the country to Tanzania. Total and its partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation plan to exploit oil reserves in Lake Albert in Uganda and construct a $3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to neighbouring Tanzania for export. Environmental groups argue that the pipeline will threaten local communities, water supplies and biodiversity in both countries. Total said it would voluntarily limit the Tilenga project's footprint within Uganda's Murchison Falls…
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Mar
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Top SA business leader dies from COVID-19

Top SA business leader dies from COVID-19

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FRIENDS and colleagues have paid warm tributes to Peter Matlare, a top South African businessman who died after a battle with COVID-19. Matlare (61), was a deputy CEO at Absa, one of the top four banks in SA, also served as chief executive for Tiger Brands, Primedia Broadcasting, Vodacom and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Matlare's family paid tribute to him, describing him as a consummate professional who made an immense contribution to busines in South Africa and across the African continent. The family said: “He was passionate about transforming businesses and believed deeply in the potential…
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Mar
08
2021
By The African Mirror
The Kenyan powerhouse improving women’s lives in Australia

The Kenyan powerhouse improving women’s lives in Australia

NEWS
WHEN Rosemary Kariuki arrived in Sydney in 1999 after fleeing violence in Kenya, a year went by without a single neighbour saying hello to her. Alone and longing for the sense of community she had back home, she decided to take action.  On Christmas Day, 2001, she wrote her contact details and an invitation to have tea or just say hello on Christmas cards and slipped them under the doors of more than a dozen flats in her building.  After that, her neighbours greeted her cheerily, and Rosemary had found her life's work.  "When I came here, nobody gave me…
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Mar
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Dynamite explosions at army base kill 15

Dynamite explosions at army base kill 15

NEWS
A series of large explosions at a military base that killed at least 15 people in Equatorial Guinea yesterday were the result of negligence related to the use of dynamite, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said. Another 500 people were injured in the blasts that rocked the city of Bata. In a statement carried on national television, Obiang called for international support in the recovery effort, adding: "I translate all my support to the people who are affected." Television station TVGE showed teams pulling people from piles of rubble, some of whom were carried away wrapped in bed sheets. A health…
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Mar
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegal shuts schools amid violent unrest

Senegal shuts schools amid violent unrest

NEWS
SCHOOLS in Senegal will be closed until March 15, the education ministry has announced, after days of violent protests that have paralysed parts of the capital Dakar and are expected to continue next week. At least five people have died in demonstrations sparked by the arrest on Wednesday of Ousmane Sonko, Senegal's most prominent opposition leader. It is the worst political unrest in years in a country widely seen as one of West Africa's most stable. Sonko, who enjoys strong support among the young, was arrested after an employee of a beauty salon accused him of raping her. Sonko denies…
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