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Oct
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Libyan professor also mends cars and sells dates to make ends meet

Libyan professor also mends cars and sells dates to make ends meet

NEWS
WHEN he is not teaching Arabic at Misrata University, professor Omar Mesbah al-Maghreby manages a car repair workshop in the garage of his home in northern Libya and spends his afternoons selling dates at a food market. After nine years of civil war, ordinary Libyans are learning to cope with fuel and electricity shortages and a funding crunch that means salaries are delayed by weeks or more. The country is rich in oil, but exports have been blocked for months by the fighting. "My daily life is basically a series of hardships," Maghreby, 48, told Reuters. "You're forced to seek…
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Oct
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Flooding devastates farms in parts of Sudan – U.N.

Flooding devastates farms in parts of Sudan – U.N.

NEWS
RECORD floods in Sudan have affected nearly one third of cultivated land and about 3 million people from agricultural households, worsening already acute levels of food insecurity, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The floods have added to hardship in Sudan, already struggling with an economic crisis and one of the world's highest rates of inflation when the coronavirus pandemic hit. About 2.2 million hectares of cropland has been flooded and 108,000 head of livestock lost, according to an FAO assessment. Some 1.1 million tonnes of grain was destroyed in planted areas, most of it sorghum, a staple…
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Oct
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Inequality seen as a root cause of West Africa’s Sahel crisis

Inequality seen as a root cause of West Africa’s Sahel crisis

NEWS
NELLIE PEYTON UNEQUAL access to wealth is one of the main causes of worsening violence in West Africa's Sahel, which has forced millions to flee their homes, according to conflict analysts. While Islamist groups are active in the troubled region, just south of the Sahara desert, the unrest is driven more by inequality than poverty or religious beliefs, found a study commissioned by the aid group Catholic Relief Services (CRS). "Community members are saying, 'We see people in the capital cities who have all this wealth but in these rural areas we don't have any of this'," said Patrick Williams,…
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Oct
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia region arrests 503 on feared violence at weekend festival

Ethiopia region arrests 503 on feared violence at weekend festival

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW POLICE in Ethiopia's Oromiya region have arrested 503 people on accusations they planned to cause violence during an annual thanksgiving festival this weekend and seized guns and hand grenades, the state-run news agency reported. State-affiliated Fana Broadcasting also reported on Friday that police and intelligence services had foiled what they said were plans to incite violence in Addis Ababa and other parts of Ethiopia ahead of the Irreecha festival of the Oromo, the country's largest ethnic group. The latest arrests happened a week after Ethiopia's attorney general said about 2,000 people had been charged over deadly violence after…
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Oct
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Family of ‘Hotel Rwanda hero’ calls on United States, EU and Belgium to help free him

Family of ‘Hotel Rwanda hero’ calls on United States, EU and Belgium to help free him

NEWS
CLEMENT UWIRIGIYIMANA THE family of Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier portrayed as a hero in a film about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, has called on the United States, the European Union and Belgium to appeal for his release from prison in Rwanda. Rusesabagina, a political dissident who lived in exile in Belgium and the United States, was charged with terrorism and other offences last month after he returned to Rwanda and was arrested in August. His case has attracted widespread international attention partly because his story of protecting Tutsi guests during the genocide was made into a popular Hollywood film. Rusesabagina,…
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Oct
03
2020
By The African Mirror
High profile arrests in unprecedented national crackdown on fraud and corruption in South Africa

High profile arrests in unprecedented national crackdown on fraud and corruption in South Africa

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER  SOUTH African law enforcement authorities have unleashed an unprecedented major crackdown on corruption in a series of busts in which politicians, business people, top civil servants and police officers were arrested for crimes involving hundreds of millions of rands. Arrests have been made in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State in joint action by the South African Police, the Hawks, the Special Investigating Unit and the National Prosecutions Authority. The law enforcement agencies say more arrests are imminent. In a dramatic three days, the first high profile was that of Vincent Smith, the former chairperson of Parliament’s Correctional…
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Oct
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Sadio Mane tests positive for COVID-19

Sadio Mane tests positive for COVID-19

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER TOP striker and African player of the year Sadio Mane has tested positive for COVID-19 and has gone into a 10-day self-quarantine. Mane will now miss Liverpool’s next league game against Aston Villa. Mane is also out of Senegal’s games against Morocco and Mauritania. In a statement, Liverpool said: "Sadio Mane has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently self-isolating according to the necessary guidelines. The forward, who started and scored in Monday’s 3-1 victory over Arsenal, has displayed minor symptoms of the virus but feels in good health overall. "However, like with Thiago Alcantara, Liverpool Football…
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Oct
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Asbestos Seven”, granted bail, properties and bank accounts worth R300-million seized

Asbestos Seven”, granted bail, properties and bank accounts worth R300-million seized

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THREE senior civil servants, a senior politician and three businessmen, who appeared in court on fraud and corruption charges related to state capture, have been released on bail ranging between R50 000 and R500 000. The “Asbestos Seven” gained their freedom but now have their properties, worth millions, seized and their bank accounts frozen.  The seven suspects are: Nthimotse Mokhesi (61). Head of the Free State Department of Human Settlements. Bail: R100 000.John Matlakala (42). Director of Supply Chain Management in the Free State Department of Human Settlements. Bail: R50 000.Edwin Sodi (47). CEO of Blackhead Consulting.…
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Oct
06
2020
By The African Mirror
Virus-hunting trio wins Nobel for Hepatitis C discovery

Virus-hunting trio wins Nobel for Hepatitis C discovery

NEWS
SIMON JOHNSON and DOUGLAS BUSVINE TWO Americans and a Briton have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine for identifying the Hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped to limit the spread of the fatal disease and develop antiviral drugs to cure it. The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and Briton Michael Houghton meant there was now a chance of eradicating the Hepatitis C virus - a goal the World Health Organization wants to achieve in the next decade. The three share the 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) award for discovering and proving that…
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Oct
06
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali announces new government following August coup

Mali announces new government following August coup

NEWS
MALI has announced a new government, with some of the top posts going to military officials following a coup on August 18 that deposed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The ministries of defence, territorial administration, security and national reconciliation will be headed by military personnel, as Mali begins an 18-month transition back to civilian rule, the presidency said in an announcement read out on state television. Civilians will hold 21 other posts. It is not rare for military personnel to hold government posts in Mali, and they did so also under Keita, but the issue has become more sensitive since the coup…
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