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Mar
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast votes for parliament as Ouattara opponents join forces

Ivory Coast votes for parliament as Ouattara opponents join forces

NEWS
ANGE ABOA and LOUCOUMANE COULIBALY IVORY COAST voted on Saturday in a legislative election, with President Alassane Ouattara’s allies facing a combined challenge from opposition parties led by two of his predecessors. The poll comes only months after Ouattara won a third term in an election marred by unrest that killed at least 85 people, the country’s worst violence since a 2010-2011 civil war. After boycotting the presidential election in October to protest Ouattara’s decision to seek a third term, the parties of former presidents Henri Konan Bedie and Laurent Gbagbo are fielding parliamentary candidates on joint lists. Clear control…
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Mar
07
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 20 killed by suicide car in Somalia

At least 20 killed by suicide car in Somalia

NEWS
AT least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia's capital Mogadishu late yesterday, an emergency services official said. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported. "So far we have carried 20 dead people and 30 injured from the blast scene," Dr. Abdulkadir Aden, founder of AAMIN Ambulance services told Reuters. The blast occurred at the Luul Yemeni restaurant near the port, witnesses said. "A speeding car exploded at Luul Yemeni restaurant. I was going to the…
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Mar
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegal: Protests escalate after rape charge

Senegal: Protests escalate after rape charge

NEWS
AARON ROSS SENEGALESE police fired tear gas at protesters outside a courthouse in the capital on Friday, where an opposition leader made his first court appearance since his arrest triggered two days of demonstrations across the country. A lawyer for Ousmane Sonko said he was being charged with rape and making threats. Sonko, a 46-year-old tax inspector with a strong following among the youth, has denied wrongdoing and says accusations against him are part of a pattern by the authorities of using criminal charges to block opponents from standing in elections. Since his arrest on Wednesday, his supporters have clashed…
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Mar
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Zim’s teen climate change hero

Zim’s teen climate change hero

NEWS
LUNGELO NDHLOVU WHILE most teenagers spend their time studying and planning for life after high school, activist Nkosilathi Nyathi is busy pushing Zimbabwe's leaders to come up with new ways to tackle his country's contribution to climate change. The 17-year-old, who was appointed a Youth Climate Advocate by the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) in November, believes a climate-smart Zimbabwe means including young people in decisions on conserving natural resources and cutting emissions. "I live this - my family lives it too. There are people who rely on the environment on a daily basis, therefore they need to be informed and…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Al Shabaab militants storm Somali jail, seven soldiers killed

Al Shabaab militants storm Somali jail, seven soldiers killed

NEWS
ABDIQANI HASSAN AT least seven soldiers were killed when fighters of the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab stormed a jail in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland early on Friday, police and the group said. Al Shabaab said it had freed at least 400 prisoners, many of them its members, in its assault on the main prison in Bosaso, Puntland's largest city, in the early hours of Friday. The authorities did not confirm that figure. "Last night many well-armed men attacked us from various directions. We fought back but finally they entered the central jail by force using explosions. They freed…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Victory for Kenyan girls

Victory for Kenyan girls

NEWS
DOMINIC KIRUI TRIBAL leaders in northern Kenya have pledged to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage in their communities, a step hailed by President Uhuru Kenyatta as "an important milestone" in boosting girls' rights. One in five women and girls aged between 15 and 49 in Kenya have undergone FGM, which usually involves the partial or total removal of the female genitalia and can cause serious health problems, the United Nations says. Kenya outlawed the widely condemned practice a decade ago, but it continues in some communities such as the semi-nomadic Samburu tribe, who see it as necessary…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Revival of Algerian street movement

Revival of Algerian street movement

NEWS
THOUSANDS of Algerians demonstrated against the political and military elite in cities across the country for a second successive Friday, as the United Nations human rights body voiced concern at what it called a crackdown on protesters. The demonstrations mark a resumption of the street protest movement, calling for the old political establishment to depart and the army to quit politics, which suspended its weekly marches a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Police have not stopped the protests but maintain a heavy street presence and the spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said there…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
17 tonnes of cannabis resin seized

17 tonnes of cannabis resin seized

NEWS
NIGER police have seized a record 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, the spokesman for the West African nation's anti-drug trafficking agency has said. The drugs had passed through the Togolese port of Lome before being transported by truck north to the Nigerien capital Niamey, over 1,000 km (621 miles) and two border crossings away, said spokesman Adili Toro. The haul was seized on March 2 from warehouses in Niamey. The traffickers had planned to transport the drugs in trucks to Libya via the desert town of…
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Mar
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Ebola risk for Guinea’s neighbours

Ebola risk for Guinea’s neighbours

NEWS
EMMA FARGE WORLD Health Organization officials said on Friday the risk of an Ebola outbreak spreading from Guinea to its neighbours was "very high" and that some neighbouring countries were not prepared for outbreaks or for future vaccination campaigns. WHO's Guinea representative, Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo, told a virtual briefing that 18 cases had been identified and four of those people had died. So far, 1,604 people have been vaccinated against Ebola in the new outbreak in Guinea, the first resurgence of the virus there since a 2013-2016 outbreak - the world's worst - which spread to several other West African…
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Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Fake COVID-19 vaccines gang bust – 4 arrested

Fake COVID-19 vaccines gang bust – 4 arrested

NEWS
SOUTH African police have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the haul, the Interpol global police coordination agency said. This comes after Interpol, which is headquartered in France, issued a global alert in December to law enforcement across its 194 member countries, warning them to prepare for organised crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines, both physically and online. Some 400 ampoules - equivalent to around 2,400 doses - containing the fake vaccine were found at a warehouse in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, where officers also recovered a large quantity of fake 3M masks, the…
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