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Jan
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Cabinet approves deal with Morocco

Cabinet approves deal with Morocco

NEWS
MAAYAN LUBELL ISRAEL'S cabinet approved a deal to upgrade ties with Morocco, the fourth Arab country to forge relations with Israel in a parting foreign policy push by the former Trump administration, Israel's N12 news reported. The agreement will now go to Israel's parliament for ratification. Last month, Morocco followed the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan in moving towards normal relations with Israel in deals brokered in 2020 by the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Palestinians have censured the accords, seeing a betrayal of a long-standing demand that Israel first meet their demand for statehood. As the…
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Jan
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Ugandan court orders opposition leader’s freedom, troops still block his home

Ugandan court orders opposition leader’s freedom, troops still block his home

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA AN Ugandan court ordered security forces yesterday to free opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since a presidential election has drawn international pressure on President Yoweri Museveni's government. Hours later, his large compound in a leafy northern suburb of the capital Kampala remained blockaded. "The military and police are still surrounding our home and indeed, they are still locking our gates and are not allowing anybody to move out, or anybody to come in," he told Reuters in a video message. Former guerrilla leader Museveni, 76, has long been a Western ally, receiving copious…
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Jan
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

NEWS
HUNDREDS of people marched in central Tunis yesterday against inequality and police brutality, in defiance of a ban on demonstrations and as security forces tried to block off the city's main central avenue. Protesters chanted "the people want the fall of the regime" - a chant popularised during the so-call Arab Spring a decade ago - and held up banners and slogans decrying the security response to more than a week of demonstrations and nightly clashes between youths and police in cities across Tunisia. The protests, 10 years after a popular revolt against autocratic rule introduced democracy in Tunisia, represent…
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Jan
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Ugandan army kills al Shabaab fighters

Ugandan army kills al Shabaab fighters

NEWS
UGANDAN soldiers working as part of a peacekeeping force in Somalia have killed 189 al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters in an attack on one of their camps, the Ugandan army said. Ugandan troops are part of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, whose aim is to support the central government and stop al Shabaab's efforts to topple it. The Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) said in a statement that its soldiers on Friday had raided al Shabaab hideouts in the villages of Sigaale, Adimole and Kayitoy, just over 100 km (62 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu. "(The raid)...…
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Jan
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Severe winds wreck homes, lives in Mozambique

Severe winds wreck homes, lives in Mozambique

NEWS
SEVERE winds and heavy rains wrecked thousands of buildings, ruined crops and displaced almost 7,000 people in Mozambique over the weekend, officials said in their first detailed report on the disaster. Tropical cyclone Eloise hit Mozambique's Sofala coastal province on Saturday morning before weakening and heading inland to dump rain on Zimbabwe, eSwatini - formerly known as Swaziland - and South Africa. Authorities initially said Eloise had only caused minor damage in Mozambique's port city of Beira but that it was too early to gauge the full extent of the damage across the rest of the region. Yesterday, Mozambique's National…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
​​South African court pushes back Zuma corruption hearing to Sept 21, 22

​​South African court pushes back Zuma corruption hearing to Sept 21, 22

NEWS
A South African court pushed back to September 21 and 22 a hearing scheduled for Thursday in a corruption trial of former president Jacob Zuma linked to a 1990s arms deal. The 12-day postponement was agreed between Zuma's lawyers and prosecutors and granted by Judge Piet Koen at the Pietermaritzburg High Court. It is the latest in a series of delays in the long-running case, in which 79-year-old Zuma faces multiple charges including corruption, racketeering and money laundering over the weapons contract over which he allegedly received kickbacks. Zuma was jailed for 15 months in July for defying a constitutional…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
West African regional bloc suspends Guinea after coup

West African regional bloc suspends Guinea after coup

NEWS
SALIOU SAMB WEST Africa's main political and economic bloc suspended Guinea's membership on Wednesday following a weekend military coup that ousted President Alpha Conde and dealt the latest in a flurry of setbacks to democracy in the region. During a virtual summit, leaders from the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) demanded a return to the constitutional order and Conde's immediate release, and also agreed to send a high-level mission to Guinea as soon as Thursday, said Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Alpha Barry. "At the end of that mission, ECOWAS should be able to re-examine its position," Barry…
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Sep
09
2021
By CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
The 10 African countries with cheapest data plans

The 10 African countries with cheapest data plans

NEWS
SUDAN leads nine other African countries that charge its citizens less than a dollar for a gigabyte (1 GB) of mobile data, a report by British technology research firm Cable shows. The Northeastern Africa nation offers the lowest cost of internet access over a smartphone anywhere in Africa and ranks among the top five cheapest countries for mobile data, in the world, according to the Worldwide Mobile Data Pricing 2021. The cost of mobile internet in Sudan is 27 US cents (0.27 US dollars) for every gigabyte of data. The result is that access to the internet has become ubiquitous…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Tigray forces killed 120 civilians in village in 2 days’

‘Tigray forces killed 120 civilians in village in 2 days’

NEWS
REBELLIOUS forces from the Tigray region killed 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia's Amhara region, local officials told Reuters. The killings in a village 10 km (six miles) from the town of Dabat took place on September 1 and 2, said Sewnet Wubalem, the local administrator in Dabat, and Chalachew Dagnew, spokesperson of the nearby city of Gondar. A spokesperson for Tigrayan forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what is the first report of Tigrayan forces killing a large number of civilians since seizing territory in Amhara. Tens of thousands of…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Cameroon sentences four men to death

Cameroon sentences four men to death

NEWS
JOSIANE KOUAGHEU A court in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death for their roles in a shooting attack on a school last year that killed seven children and wounded 12 others, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A military court in Buea, the capital of Cameroon's South West region, found the men guilty of terrorism, assassination, and attempted secession, according to its judgment, which was issued on Tuesday. The men were sentenced to execution by firing squad in the town square, but their sentences are likely to be converted to life imprisonment. Cameroon has not…
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