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Aug
30
2020
By The African Mirror
South African president fights for political life

South African president fights for political life

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, engaged in the biggest battle of his political life, has survived a planned political coup by asking the ANC’s integrity committee to investigate accounts of a campaign that financed his campaign for the presidency of the ANC. Sources in the ANC, a party that has been divided into two factions, have revealed that Ramaphosa volunteered to submit himself and the CR17 campaign for a probe into, among others, the R400-million received in donations. Ramaphosa is said to have told the NEC meeting, in his presidential address, that he had also asked the…
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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
UN says life of Congo’s Nobel Laureate doctor in danger

UN says life of Congo’s Nobel Laureate doctor in danger

NEWS
EMMA FARGE THE life of a top Congolese doctor who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work treating war rape victims is in danger after a series of death threats, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday. The threats, received in the form of phone calls to Dr Denis Mukwege and his family as well as via social media, appeared to be linked to his outspoken criticism of violence against women and other human rights violations, another U.N. official said. "His life seems to be at serious risk," High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said…
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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan signs historic peace deal with five rebel groups

Sudan signs historic peace deal with five rebel groups

NEWS
SUDAN'S government signed a peace agreement with the country’s five key rebel groups on Monday, a significant step in the transitional leadership’s goal of resolving multiple, deep-rooted civil conflicts. The rebel groups that signed the deal include the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Minni Minawi’s Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), both of the western region of Darfur, and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) led by Malik Agar, present in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s ANC decides officials charged with graft must step aside

South Africa’s ANC decides officials charged with graft must step aside

NEWS
SOUTH Africa’s governing party executive decided at a weekend meeting that party officials formally charged with corruption and other serious crimes must step aside from their posts, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday. The African National Congress (ANC) has been buffeted in recent weeks by reports of graft during the coronavirus crisis, with state investigators probing irregularities in government tenders worth 5 billion rand ($297 million). Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma as ANC leader more than two and a half years ago, has staked his reputation on rooting out graft but has found it hard to make much progress…
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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Niger floods kill 51, drive thousands from their homes

Niger floods kill 51, drive thousands from their homes

NEWS
SEVERE flooding in Niger this month has killed 51 people and destroyed thousands of homes after torrential rains caused rivers to burst their banks, authorities said on Monday. Floods are common during Niger’s rainy season, when overflowing rivers and streams sweep away homes and destroy crops. Since flooding started earlier in August, over 26,000 houses have collapsed, killing 37 people, while 14 others drowned, the ministry for humanitarian response said in a statement. President Mahamadou Issoufou visited District 5 of the capital Niamey on Monday, which had been flooded by the adjacent Niger River. Residents stood ankle-deep in brown water…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s Bashir appears at trial over 1989 coup

Sudan’s Bashir appears at trial over 1989 coup

NEWS
OUSTED Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir appeared in court on Tuesday at the start of a trial over the military coup in which he took power in 1989. Giving his profession as “former president of the republic”, Bashir seemed in good physical condition as he appeared in a metal courtroom cage wearing white prison-issue clothes and a medical face mask that he lowered to identify himself. In footage carried by Sudanese state TV he said he was resident in Khartoum’s Kober prison, 76 years old, and had two wives. Some of Bashir’s former associates appeared alongside him at the trial, which…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Guinea’s Condé accepts nomination to seek third term

Guinea’s Condé accepts nomination to seek third term

NEWS
GUINEA President Alpha Condé has accepted his party’s nomination to run in October’s election, the party said on Monday, taking advantage of a new constitution to seek a third term that his opponents say is unconstitutional. Condé, who was first elected in 2010, pushed through a change to the constitution that was approved by a referendum in March that was boycotted by the opposition. Talk of a potential third term sparked widespread protests that have killed at least 30 people over the past year. Condé’s supporters say the constitutional change acts as a reset button on the two-term limit. The…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Sub-Saharan Africa’s COVID-induced slump may last 3 years -Ghana Financial Minister

Sub-Saharan Africa’s COVID-induced slump may last 3 years -Ghana Financial Minister

NEWS
THE economic slump in sub-Saharan Africa caused by the coronavirus outbreak could last well over three years, Ghana’s finance minister said on Tuesday. Much of the region has been spared the infection and death rates that have hit other parts of the world, data suggests, but its economies have been battered by the pandemic and restrictions imposed by governments to contain it. “We are in the middle of the first recession in sub-Saharan Africa in the last 25 years,” said Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The slump may last well over three years and could push between 26 and 39…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero’s family accuses government of kidnapping him

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero’s family accuses government of kidnapping him

NEWS
The family of Paul Rusesabagina - hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide - have accused authorities in Kigali of kidnapping him, speaking out a day after he was paraded before media in handcuffs. Rusesabagina was played by Don Cheadle in the Oscar-nominated film ‘Hotel Rwanda’, which told how hotel manager Rusesabagina used his job and his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing the slaughter. Rwandan police said Rusesabagina - who has called for armed resistance to the government - was arrested on terrorism charges on an international arrest warrant. His family dispute…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
FACTBOX: Sudan’s rebel groups

FACTBOX: Sudan’s rebel groups

NEWS
Sudan’s transitional authorities have signed a peace deal with some rebel groups after a year of negotiations in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. A handful of rebel groups have battled the army and allied militias in the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, some splintering after decades of civil conflict. These are the key ones: *Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) The JEM, led by Jibril Ibrahim, is one of two significant groups from the western region of Darfur to sign the peace deal. The group was among mostly non-Arab rebels who took up…
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