Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Ok, I Agree
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Tigray: Ethiopia faces UN war crimes probe

Tigray: Ethiopia faces UN war crimes probe

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE United Nations' human rights chief yesterday asked Ethiopia allow monitors into Tigray to investigate reports of killings and sexual violence that may amount to war crimes in the northern region since late 2020. "Victims and survivors of these violations must not be denied their rights to the truth and to justice," Michelle Bachelet said in a statement, expressing her fear that violations could continue without outside scrutiny. Fighting between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal troops and forces of the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), has killed thousands of people, forced hundreds of…
Read More
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Curfew, market closures for Nigerian town

Curfew, market closures for Nigerian town

NEWS
AUTHORITIES in Nigeria's Zamfara state have declared a curfew and shut market activities after violence marred the return of hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls to their families, according to a state spokesman. Late on Wednesday, gunshots and chaos erupted during what should have been the joyous return of 279 schoolgirls abducted by gunmen from their boarding school last week. The government secured the release of the girls on Tuesday, but they had been undergoing medical checks and treatment. At least three people were shot, but it was not clear by whom. A Reuters witness saw police firing tear gas at a…
Read More
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria plans to deny nationality to people ‘threatening state’

Algeria plans to deny nationality to people ‘threatening state’

NEWS
ALGERIA plans for the first time to deprive nationality to citizens who commit acts abroad that are liable to "seriously damage the interests of the state or harm the national unity", the prime minister's office has announced. The measure will apply to people who join, finance or glorify a terrorist organisation, it said in a statement after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad to discuss amendments to the nationality law and other issues. The new provision applies also to "everyone who deals with an enemy country," the statement said. It said the provisions of the law remain compatible…
Read More
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s strict rules for WhatsApp

South Africa’s strict rules for WhatsApp

NEWS
FACEBOOK Inc cannot share any contact information it collects from WhatsApp users in South Africa with its other properties without first obtaining authorisation from the country's Information Regulator (IR), the agency has announced. In January, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp informed users it was preparing a new privacy policy, under which it could share some data, including location and phone numbers, with Facebook and its other units such as Instagram and Messenger. The move has sparked backlash among users in South Africa and elsewhere, and prompted many to opt for rival services such as Signal or Telegram. "WhatsApp cannot without…
Read More
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Ghana court upholds president’s election victory

Ghana court upholds president’s election victory

NEWS
GHANA's Supreme Court yesterday upheld President Nana Akufo-Addo's election victory, rejecting a challenge by the runner-up John Mahama who had alleged irregularities in the results. Akufo-Addo was declared the winner of the December 7 vote with 51.59%, ahead of former president Mahama, who received 47.37%. Mahama alleged that votes had been added to Akufo-Addo's total in some polling stations, pushing him above the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. The court said his allegations were without merit. "The petitioner did not demonstrate in any way how the alleged errors... affected the validity of the (results)," said Chief Justice Kwasi…
Read More
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Hunt for young fugitive crocodiles

Hunt for young fugitive crocodiles

NEWS
THE hunt is on for several young crocodiles that escaped from a breeding farm in the Western Cape province of South Africa, authorities said yesterday, after capturing 26 on overnight patrols. An unknown number of Nile crocodiles, widespread in Africa, escaped from a Bonnievale commercial breeding farm into the Bree River on Wednesday, sparking a hunt involving police, landowners and conservation officials. The escaped crocodiles, with a reputation as man-eaters, are 1.2 and 1.5 metres in length, authorities said. "We've captured 26 at this point but I can't say how many are still on the loose," said Petro van Rhyn,…
Read More
Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Life and times of Karima Brown celebrated

Life and times of Karima Brown celebrated

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African from all of life – from journalists, editors, politicians to scientists – have paid warm tributes to journalist, television anchor and political analyst Karima Brown who died from COVID-19 related complications. Brown, who hosted “The Fix” on ENCA, passed away in the morning and was buried yesterday afternoon, in accordance with Muslim rites. Friends, colleagues and ordinary South Africans took to social media to bid farewell to Brown, who worked, among others, at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Independent Media and Business Day. Transport Minister Fikile Mbulala, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and Public Works…
Read More
Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Violence as kidnapped schoolgirls go home

Violence as kidnapped schoolgirls go home

NEWS
AFOLABI SOTUNDE and SEUN SANNI POLICE fired tear gas and soldiers shot their guns into the air in northwest Nigeria as violence broke out amid the return of 279 kidnapped schoolgirls to their families on Wednesday, a day after their release, according to two Reuters witnesses. The kidnapping of the girls from their school in the town of Jangebe, Zamfara state, had drawn the world's attention to a remote corner of northwest Nigeria, and Wednesday was supposed to be a happy end to the children's five-day ordeal with their handover to their families. At least three people were shot, but…
Read More
Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
South African scientists’ COVID-19 breakthrough

South African scientists’ COVID-19 breakthrough

NEWS
RESEARCH by South African scientists suggests that antibodies triggered by exposure to the country's dominant coronavirus variant can prevent infection by other variants, the scientists disclosed yesterday. The findings in laboratory studies offer hope that COVID-19 vaccines based on the 501Y.V2 variant first identified late last year could protect against multiple variants circulating in different parts of the world. The more contagious variant drove a second wave of infections in South Africa that peaked in January and is believed to have spread to many other countries in Africa and other continents. "We used plasma ... from people that were infected…
Read More
Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Dozens of African migrants feared dead

Dozens of African migrants feared dead

NEWS
DOZENS of African migrants are feared to have died yesterday after smugglers threw them overboard off Djibouti as they were en route to Yemen, hoping to enter Saudi Arabia to find work. Their boat, carrying 200 migrants, left Oulebi in Djibouti at 2 a.m., according to Yvonne Ndege, spokeswoman for the U.N. International Organisation for Migration (IOM). But survivors said that, half an hour later, the smugglers judged the boat was overloaded and threw at least 80 passengers off, Ndege said. She said five bodies had been retrieved so far. Drownings in the waters off Eritrea, typically involving migrants from…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram
WhatsApp
Threads