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Dec
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region regains some services

Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region regains some services

NEWS
ETHIOPIA has sent civil servants in Tigray back to work and ordered gun owners to disarm as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government sought to show normality in the still-isolated northern region after weeks of war. Some power and telephone links were also restored in regional capital Mekelle after a virtual communications blackout since federal troops' November 4 offensive. But there were reports of massive fuel and food price hikes, plus water shortages. Tigray is still off-limits to journalists without a permit. Abiy has declared victory over the former local ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). The powerful TPLF…
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Dec
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Boys escaped through forest after gunmen abducted their friends at Nigeria school

Boys escaped through forest after gunmen abducted their friends at Nigeria school

NEWS
ISMAIL ABBA and AFOLABI SOTUNDE USAMA Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunman abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. "When I decided to run they brought a knife to slaughter me but I ran away quickly," he said, sitting on a mat and speaking softly as he described how he had been in bed at the all-boys school in Kankara when he heard gunshots on Friday night. At first, he said, the boys thought the commotion was from soldiers trying to protect them, but the attackers, armed with AK-47s,…
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Sep
29
2021
By The African Mirror
R150-million scandal kingpin “will be out office today”

R150-million scandal kingpin “will be out office today”

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER Dr Anban Pillay, a top South African civil servant identified as the kingpin in the R150-million communication tender scandal has been served with a suspension letter and would be "out of the office today", Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla has announced Phaahla told a media briefing that he had only received the report of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) on Wednesday and could only act now. The report had been with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa for weeks. The SIU's report found that Pillay, then acting-Director  General in the Department of Health, lied and committed financial misconduct. "We…
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Dec
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Prime Minister of eSwatini dies from COVID-19

Prime Minister of eSwatini dies from COVID-19

NEWS
AMBROSE Dlamini, the Prime Minister of eSwatini has become the first sitting head of state or government to succumb to COVID-19. Dlamini, 52, passed on in a South African hospital, four weeks after he contracted the COVID-19 and two weeks after admission to a hospital. In an announcement, eSwatini Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku said:  “Their majesties have commanded that I inform the nation of the sad and untimely passing away of His Excellency the Prime Minister Ambrose Manduvolo Dlamini. His excellency passed away this afternoon while under medical care in a hospital in South Africa.” Cyril Ramaphosa, the president…
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Sep
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian state shuts down phones, bans motorbikes

Nigerian state shuts down phones, bans motorbikes

NEWS
AUTHORITIES in Nigeria's Kaduna State shut down telecoms networks and banned the use of motorcycles as part of a raft of measures to tackle bandit gangs that have caused havoc in the country's northwest for months. Telecoms blackouts are already in force in neighbouring Zamfara and in parts of several other northwestern states, a tactic aimed at helping the security forces crackdown on the gangs by preventing coordination. Bandits seeking ransoms and loot have been blamed by the authorities for a string of mass school abductions and deadly attacks on villages and on military targets that have disrupted everyday life…
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Sep
30
2021
By The African Mirror
EU court sides with Western Sahara

EU court sides with Western Sahara

NEWS
PHILIP BLENKINSOP and AHMED ELJECHTIMI A European Union court has declared that EU-Morocco trade deals covering farm products and fish were invalid because they were agreed without the consent of the people of Western Sahara. The EU and Morocco swiftly issued a joint statement saying they would act to ensure continuity of bilateral trade, and a senior Moroccan diplomatic source told Reuters he expected an appeal against what he called an "incoherent" ruling. Morocco regards Western Sahara as its own territory, but the Algeria-backed Polisario Front movement has sought the region's independence since the end of Spain's colonial rule in…
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Sep
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian leader names new PM with little experience at crisis moment

Tunisian leader names new PM with little experience at crisis moment

NEWS
TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL PRESIDENT Kais Saied has named a geologist with little government experience as Tunisia's first woman prime minister amid a crisis following his seizure of sweeping powers and with public finances close to breaking point. He asked Najla Bouden Romdhane, a little-known professor of geophysics who implemented World Bank projects at the education ministry, to form a government as quickly as possible, prompting a surge in Tunisian bond prices. Elected in 2019, Saied has been under mounting domestic and international pressure to name a government after he dismissed the prime minister, suspended parliament and assumed executive…
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Sep
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Legendary Pele to leave hospital after colon op

Legendary Pele to leave hospital after colon op

NEWS
BRAZILIAN football legend Pele is set to leave hospital after recovering from an operation to remove a tumour from his colon, his daughter Kely said on Wednesday. She did not say exactly when he would leave the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo but the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper said his discharge would take place on Thursday. "Now that he's stronger and leaving the hospital to continue recovering and treating himself at home, I'm going back home," Pele's U.S.-based daughter said on Instagram. Kely has used social media to post popular updates about her father during his almost month-long…
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Sep
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Mercenaries: France warns Mali

Mercenaries: France warns Mali

NEWS
FRANCE has warned Mali that it would lose the support of the international community if it agreed on a deal with Russian mercenaries. Diplomatic and security sources have told Reuters that Mali's year-old military junta is close to recruiting the Russian Wagner Group, and France has launched a diplomatic drive to thwart it, saying such an arrangement is "incompatible" with a continued French presence. "If Mali commits to a partnership with these mercenaries, then Mali will isolate itself and will lose the support of the international community which is heavily engaged in Mali," Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly told lawmakers.…
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Dec
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian parents’ prayer for missing 300 kidnapped pupils

Nigerian parents’ prayer for missing 300 kidnapped pupils

NEWS
PARENTS converged on a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state yesterday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen. More than 300 students from the all-boys Government Science school in Kankara taken Friday night have remained missing. "We will not rest until we see the end of this," state spokesman Abdul Labaran told Reuters. Labaran said military and intelligence chiefs were in Kankara to lead the rescue. While 321 students were missing, he said some could have gone home to other states. All state schools in Katsina were ordered to close because officials did not know the…
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