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
Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
ANC leader arrested for rape of his two daughters

ANC leader arrested for rape of his two daughters

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A senior ANC leader has been arrested and is expected in court to face charges of raping his two daughters. The leader, a former member of parliament, ex provincial minister of finance and economic affairs and current member of the Mpumalanga provincial executive committee of the ANC, was arrested at his home.  The ANC has identified the leader but the law prohibits the media from identifying him until he has appeared and pleaded in court. In a statement, the ANC in Mpumalanga expressed shock and anger. The ANC said the leader has been suspended. “The ANC takes…
Read More
Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy’s blasphemy jail term

Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy’s blasphemy jail term

NEWS
THE head of Poland's Auschwitz Memorial has written to Nigeria's president offering to serve part of a 10-year jail term handed to a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy. Piotr Cywinski requested a pardon for Omar Farouq, who was accused of making blasphemous statements during an argument and sentenced by a sharia court in Nigeria's northern Kano state last month. If a pardon was not possible, Cywinski said he and 119 other volunteers would take on the boy's punishment and each spend a month in a Nigerian jail. As the director of a memorial to a place "where children were imprisoned and…
Read More
Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Congolese security forces thwart rebel attempt to seize mining hub

Congolese security forces thwart rebel attempt to seize mining hub

NEWS
PRO-INDEPENDENCE rebels tried to seize strategic buildings in the Congolese mining hub of Lubumbashi overnight, beheading two policemen and killing a soldier before security forces repelled the incursion, according to regional authorities. Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city is the capital of the mineral-rich southeastern province of Haut-Katanga, where mining companies such as Ivanhoe and MMG Ltd have concessions. Around 200 Mai-Mai militia, armed with guns and machetes, had marched into the city of around 2 million people with the aim of occupying official buildings and the local television station, provincial interior minister Fulbert Kunda said. Two police officers were…
Read More
Sep
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali president names diplomat Moctar Ouane as interim prime minister

Mali president names diplomat Moctar Ouane as interim prime minister

NEWS
FORMER foreign minister Moctar Ouane was named as Mali's interim prime minister, state television said, a move likely to trigger the lifting of sanctions imposed by the West Africa regional bloc in the aftermath of the military coup last month. A veteran diplomat, Ouane, 64, served as Mali's ambassador to the United Nations in 1995-2002, and as foreign minister in 2004-2011. The bloc had demanded a civilian leader be installed as a condition for lifting the sanctions. Ouane's appointment comes two days after retired colonel Bah Ndaw was sworn in as the country's president, and coup-leader Colonel Assimi Goita as…
Read More
Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Groundbreaking’ Lesotho study reveals high cost of domestic violence

‘Groundbreaking’ Lesotho study reveals high cost of domestic violence

NEWS
EMMA BATHA COUNTRIES could save billions of dollars a year by tackling the "disgusting pandemic" of domestic violence, the Commonwealth secretary-general said as economists estimated the scourge cost the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho 5.5% of GDP. Patricia Scotland said domestic violence burdened health, police and judicial services, led to absenteeism at work and school, and permanently damaged children who witnessed it, impacting future generations. About one in three women in Lesotho has suffered physical or sexual violence - often by a partner, similar to the global prevalence rate, according to a Commonwealth study published on Friday. Analysts calculated this…
Read More
Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Severe flooding in South Sudan displaces more than 600,000 – U.N.

Severe flooding in South Sudan displaces more than 600,000 – U.N.

NEWS
DENIS DUMO  SEVERE flooding in South Sudan has forced more than 600,000 people to flee their homes since July, the United Nations said, after months of torrential rains caused the Nile to burst its banks. The impoverished East African nation is struggling to recover from a five-year civil war and was already suffering severe food shortages. Scientists say the unusual rains are caused by a cyclical weather pattern that has been exacerbated by climate change. The coronavirus pandemic is also complicating the response, said United Nations humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan Alain Noudéhou. Costs for delivering aid have risen with…
Read More
Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia tells U.N. ‘no intention’ of using dam to harm Egypt, Sudan

Ethiopia tells U.N. ‘no intention’ of using dam to harm Egypt, Sudan

NEWS
ETHIOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has the United Nations that his country has "no intention" of harming Sudan and Egypt with a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that has caused a bitter water dispute between the three countries. Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan failed to strike a deal on the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam before Ethiopia began filling the reservoir behind the dam in July. But the three states have returned to African Union-led mediation. "I want to make it abundantly clear that we have no intention to harm these countries," he told the 193-member U.N.…
Read More
Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia charges 2,000 over violence after singer’s killing – attorney general

Ethiopia charges 2,000 over violence after singer’s killing – attorney general

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW ABOUT 2,000 people in Ethiopia have been charged over deadly violence that followed the killing of a popular singer in June and charges against more prisoners are likely to follow, the attorney general has announced. At least 166 people were killed following the murder of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, some in protests against authorities and some in ethnically-targeted attacks. More than 9,000 people were arrested in the wake of the violence, including some politicians from Oromiya, Ethiopia's most populous province and the home of the deceased singer. "Some the suspects and some of the accused complained that they are being…
Read More
Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan rejects linking removal from U.S. terrorism list with Israel ties

Sudan rejects linking removal from U.S. terrorism list with Israel ties

NEWS
SUDAN does not want to link its removal from a U.S. terrorism list that is hindering access to foreign funding for the country's economy with normalisation of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said. Sources said this week that U.S. officials indicated in talks with a Sudanese delegation they wanted Khartoum to follow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and open ties with Israel. Sudan's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism dates back to its toppled ruler Omar al-Bashir, and makes it difficult for its new transitional government to access urgently needed debt relief and foreign financing.…
Read More
Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Central African Republic President Touadera announces second term bid

Central African Republic President Touadera announces second term bid

NEWS
ANTOINE ROLLAND  CENTRAL African Republic's President Faustin-Archange Touadera had declared he would stand for a second term in the December election, pressing on with preparations for a vote that the opposition wants to be delayed due to concerns over voter registrations. The main opposition coalition is questioning the credibility of the election, after instability in the region and the coronavirus pandemic disrupted voter rolls and required parliament to tweak the electoral calendar. Faustin-Archange Touadera made his candidacy announcement to a crowd of 6,000 supporters in a sports hall in the capital Bangui that had been repainted for the occasion in…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram
WhatsApp
Threads