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
Nov
09
2020
By The African Mirror
French minister, in Cairo, affirms respect for Islam in dispute over cartoons

French minister, in Cairo, affirms respect for Islam in dispute over cartoons

NEWS
AIDAN LEWIS and MAHOUD MOURAD THE French foreign minister asserted his country's "profound respect for Islam" during a visit to Cairo on Sunday in a dispute with the Muslim world over France's defence of the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian's visit comes in the wake of several attacks in France apparently provoked by anger over the defence of the caricatures, considered blasphemous by Muslims, as freedom of expression. After meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Le Drian said an "anti-French" campaign in the Muslim world had often been…
Read More
Nov
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Eleven kidnapped teachers freed in Cameroon

Eleven kidnapped teachers freed in Cameroon

NEWS
ELEVEN kidnapped teachers have been freed in western Cameroon, where separatist insurgents are battling government forces, the church that runs the schools has announced. Unidentified men took the teachers hostage on Tuesday during a raid on two schools in the town of Kumbo, just 10 days after gunmen stormed a school in another western town, killing at least seven children. No one has claimed responsibility for either of the raids. Samuel Fonki, representative of the church that runs the two schools, said the teachers had been freed but gave no further details when contacted via instant message. There was no…
Read More
Nov
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopian air strikes in Tigray will continue, says PM, as civil war risk grows

Ethiopian air strikes in Tigray will continue, says PM, as civil war risk grows

NEWS
GUILIA PARAVICINI and DAWIT ENDESHAW Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has pledged more airstrikes in the escalating conflict amid reports that Tigrayan forces had seized control of federal military sites and weapons. Civilians in the northern region should avoid "collateral damage" by not gathering outside as strikes would continue, Abiy said in a televised speech on Friday evening, defying international pleas for both sides to show restraint. The developments illustrate how quickly the days-old conflict is escalating, raising the threat of a civil war that experts and diplomats warn would destabilise the country of 110 million people and hurt the…
Read More
Nov
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast opposition leader arrested for creating rival government

Ivory Coast opposition leader arrested for creating rival government

NEWS
IVORY Coast opposition leader and former prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan has been arrested for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattara's election victory, his wife and a spokeswoman said. Ivorian prosecutors are pursuing terrorism charges against more than a dozen opposition leaders who boycotted the October 31 vote in which Ouattara won a third term in office and announced they were creating a transitional council. The standoff has raised fears of protracted instability in the world's top cocoa producer, whose disputed 2010 presidential election led to a brief civil war. More than 40 people have died in clashes…
Read More
Nov
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s central bank freezes accounts of police brutality protesters

Nigeria’s central bank freezes accounts of police brutality protesters

NEWS
NIGERIA’S central bank froze the accounts of 20 people linked with anti-police brutality protests after receiving a court order, the regulator said. Many of those affected were prominent during Nigerian protests last month known as #EndSARS, one of the West African country's biggest social upheavals in 20 years, which attracted global attention as thousands of people campaigned for an end to police brutality. The demonstrations came to a head-on October 20 when security forces opened fire and killed at least 12 protesters in Lagos, according to witnesses and Amnesty International. The army and police have denied the killings. A federal…
Read More
Nov
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Biden wins presidency in polarized United States

Biden wins presidency in polarized United States

NEWS
JOHN WHITESIDES and JOSEPH AX DEMOCRAT Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency as voters rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trump’s tumultuous leadership and embraced Biden’s promise to fight the coronavirus pandemic and fix the economy in a divided nation. Winning the battleground state of Pennsylvania’s 20 Electoral College votes gave the former vice president more than the 270 he needed to triumph, prompting all major TV networks to declare him victor came after four days of nail-biting suspense following Tuesday’s election. “I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect (Kamala)…
Read More
Oct
20
2020
By The African Mirror
Guinea opposition candidate claims victory, violence erupts

Guinea opposition candidate claims victory, violence erupts

NEWS
SALIOU SAMB GUINEA opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo claims he has won the first round of the October 18 presidential election, but his claim was quickly disputed by the electoral commission and the government, setting the stage for a stand-off. "Despite the serious anomalies that marred the smooth running of the ... election and in view of the results that came out of the ballot boxes, I am victorious in this election in the first round," Diallo told journalists and cheering supporters. He did not give any figures but said the tally was based on his party's count, not an…
Read More
Oct
20
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian calls on anti-police protesters to enter into a dialogue

Nigerian calls on anti-police protesters to enter into a dialogue

NEWS
PAUL CARSTEN NIGERIANS protesting against what they condemn as police brutality must end their daily demonstrations and enter into dialogue with the government on law enforcement reforms, the youth minister has said. Thousands of Nigerians calling for an end to alleged brutality and for law enforcement reforms have taken to the streets every day for more than a week across the country, posing a major challenge to President Muhammadu Buhari. Protests have continued despite the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit on Oct. 11 following accusations of human rights abuses against the unit. Sunday Dare, Minister of…
Read More
Oct
20
2020
By The African Mirror
One killed as pre-election protests spread in Ivory Coast

One killed as pre-election protests spread in Ivory Coast

NEWS
ANGE ABOA  ONE person was killed and several injured when security forces opened fire on protesters in the southeast of Ivory coast yesterday, several witnesses said, a sign of spreading unrest ahead of an October 31 election boycotted by the opposition. More than a dozen people have been killed since August in protests against President Alassane Ouattara's plan to stand for a third term, which his opponents say violates the constitution. Images shared on social media showed protesters carrying a man through the streets of the town of Bonoua on a sheet of metal. "I saw the young man who…
Read More
Oct
19
2020
By The African Mirror
Lots of support for South African Health Minister infected with COVID-19

Lots of support for South African Health Minister infected with COVID-19

NEWS, COVID-19
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THERE has been an outpouring of support for South African Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, who has gone into quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19. World Health Organisation Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa have led a torrent of good wishes for Mkhize, who has tested positive together with his wife May. Ghebreyesus wished the Mkhize’s swift and easy recoveries. Ramaphosa also wished the couple a speedy recovery. “The President wishes the Mkhizes a safe and restful recovery and joins the Minister in calling on all South Africans to remain careful…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram
WhatsApp
Threads