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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Uganda charges two MPs with murder

Uganda charges two MPs with murder

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDAN prosecutors have charged two lawmakers allied to opposition leader Bobi Wine with the murder of three people, following a spate of unsolved killings that have stoked widespread public alarm. Wine's opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) dismissed the prosecution of the two MPs, Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana, both NUP members, as a politically motivated attempt by authorities to smear the party. Appearing at a court in Masaka town in central Uganda, south of the capital Kampala, the two were charged with the three murders and remanded in prison, Joel Ssenyonyi, a fellow NUP lawmaker and the party's…
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Jan
23
2021
By The African Mirror
S.Africa tackles secretive party funding with law, but still allows anonymous donors

S.Africa tackles secretive party funding with law, but still allows anonymous donors

NEWS
TIM COCKS SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law on Friday requiring political parties to disclose donations of more than 100,000 rands ($6,650) in a bid to clean up party funding, but it did not ban anonymous donations. The Political Party Funding Act requires parties to make bank statements available from donations that size or greater. In addition, it "prohibits donations to parties by foreign governments or agencies, foreign persons or entities, organs of state or state-owned enterprises", a statement from his office said, apart from funding for training or policy development. Whether it is drug money sloshing through…
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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Police must act against lawlessness – ANC

Police must act against lawlessness – ANC

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER IN the face of video evidence of individuals discharging firearms during the funeral of one of its MPs, the ANC has called on the police to investigate the matter, which it acknowledged was unlawful. Individuals attending the funeral, in Soweto, of Kebby Maphatsoe, who was also a former deputy minister and chairperson of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, discharged firearms, in violation of the law. On Sunday, as speakers paid tribute to Maphatsoe, intermittent gunfire could be heard outside the tent.  Jessie Duarte, the ANC deputy secretary-general, in response to a question during a media…
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Jan
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo lawmakers move to force out prime minister

Congo lawmakers move to force out prime minister

NEWS
HEREWARD HOLLAND A majority in Democratic Republic of Congo's lower house of parliament filed a motion of no confidence in the prime minister on Friday, a move likely to force the government's collapse and hand President Felix Tshisekedi a major political victory. The motion, which lawmaker Chérubin Okende said carried the signatures of more than 300 of the National Assembly's 500 members, gives Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba 48 hours to resign or face a no-confidence vote. Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, 26 March 2019. Photo: Paul Kagame/Flickr Last month, Tshisekedi…
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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
“Let’s transform the fortunes of all Africans”

“Let’s transform the fortunes of all Africans”

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER AFRICANS, including those in the diaspora, should use the experience garnered in the fight against COVID-19 to manage future pandemics, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. In his remarks at the 1st Africa-Caricom Summit Heads of States and Government, Ramaphosa said the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the value and the necessity of confronting challenges together. Ramaphosa, a former chairperson of the African Union, said:  “This pandemic has demonstrated the value and the necessity of confronting challenges together.  From the onset of the pandemic, we developed a united African continental response strategy, established a special COVID-19 Response…
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Jan
23
2021
By The African Mirror
CAR declares state of emergency

CAR declares state of emergency

NEWS
THE Central African Republic has declared a state of emergency to help it crackdown on armed groups, as the United Nations' envoy to CAR called for the deployment of many more peacekeepers in response to a recent surge in attacks. The CAR army, backed by U.N., Russian and Rwandan troops, has been battling rebels that are seeking to overturn a Dec. 27 vote in which President Faustin-Archange Touadera was declared the winner. The state of emergency, which will last 15 days, lets the authorities fast-track arrests by allowing the military to detain suspects without going through a prosecutor, government spokesman…
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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Battle over Nigeria’s oil wealth

Battle over Nigeria’s oil wealth

NEWS
FIKAYO OWOEYE THE government of a state in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region has said it would collect value-added tax (VAT) in its territory rather than leaving it for a federal agency, a move that threatens the way the nation's wealth is shared out. Under the political and fiscal system now, a range of taxes are collected nationwide by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and pooled centrally before being redistributed across all 36 of Nigeria's states according to an agreed formula. The move by Nigeria's southern Rivers State to collect VAT risks upsetting the way national revenues are allocated,…
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Jan
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Violence in West Africa’s Sahel displaces record two million people

Violence in West Africa’s Sahel displaces record two million people

NEWS
THE number of people fleeing violence in West Africa's Sahel region has quadrupled in the past two years, with 2 million now displaced in their own countries, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR has announced. Militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State have expanded their reach in the semi-arid region on the edge of the Sahara, stoking ethnic conflict in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and forcing whole communities to flee their homes. More than half of those displaced within their own country are in Burkina Faso, where many are forced to sleep outside and do not have enough water,…
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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria arrests 27 members of separatist group

Algeria arrests 27 members of separatist group

NEWS
Algeria has arrested 27 suspected members of a separatist group that the government has declared a terrorist organisation, after an attack in two northern towns, police have announced. They said the 27 were suspected of belonging to MAK, a group that seeks independence for the Berber-speaking Kabylie region. Morocco's support for MAK was one of the reasons cited by Algeria in cutting diplomatic relations with the kingdom late last month. Police said the 27 were arrested "for their attempt to sow terror and strife among citizens by order of parties abroad," police said in a statement. They resorted to assault…
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Jan
23
2021
By The African Mirror
UN sets dates for Libyan transitional govt selection

UN sets dates for Libyan transitional govt selection

NEWS
THE United Nations Libya mission has called for nominations for leadership of a new unified transitional government must be made within a week and voting on candidates would take place in early February. Libya has been divided since 2014 between rival administrations in the capital Tripoli, in the west, and in the country's east. Manoeuvring over the new government has raised fears that powerful figures who stand to lose influence could attempt to sabotage the process. The UN in November gathered 75 Libyan participants in a political dialogue in Tunis aimed at setting a roadmap to national elections that they…
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