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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Jackson Mthembu’s life celebrated

Jackson Mthembu’s life celebrated

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africans from all walks of life and across the political divide have paid tribute to Jackson Mthembu, the country’s first cabinet minister to succumb to COVID-19.  Tributes to Mthembu (62)  were led by the ANC, an organisation to which he devoted his life and the South African government. President Cyril Ramaphosa said: "Minister Mthembu was an exemplary leader, an activist and life-long champion of freedom and democracy." Jessie Duarte, the ANC’s deputy secretary-general said Mthembu always put the country first and was able to bring quality in debate at the national executive committee, the party’s highest…
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Sep
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia’s bold $40 -billon plan for clean energy

Ethiopia’s bold $40 -billon plan for clean energy

NEWS
SETH ONYANGO, BIRD ETHIOPIA is on course to become a net exporter of energy as it unveiled a $40-billion roadmap to build 71 power projects over the next ten years. Of those projects, 16 are hydro-power, 24 wind, 17 steam, and 14 are solar, making the model arguably one of the world’s biggest policy shifts towards clean energy and potentially building Ethiopia into a leader in clean energy in Africa. At the same time, Ethiopia will bolster its electricity generating capacity from the current 4,200 MW to around 35,000 MW by 2037. The East African state is inching closer to…
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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian minor acquitted on appeal following blasphemy conviction

Nigerian minor acquitted on appeal following blasphemy conviction

NEWS
HAMZA IBRAHIM A court in northern Nigeria has acquitted a minor at an appeal hearing after he had been sentenced to 10 years in prison with menial labour under Islamic law in a conviction that caused a global outcry. In August, a sharia court in the northern city of Kano handed Omar Farouq the jail term following accusations that he made blasphemous comments in an argument. The judges who acquitted him yesterday said he was 17 at the time of his sentencing and not 13 as stated in previous hearings. His initial conviction was condemned by rights groups, the United…
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Sep
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Tanzanian judge recuses self in terrorism case

Tanzanian judge recuses self in terrorism case

NEWS
A Tanzanian judge has recused himself from continuing to hear a case involving terrorism charges against the main opposition leader after the defendant expressed a lack of faith in his impartiality. Opposition leader Freeman Mbowe of the Chadema party was detained in July and was subsequently charged with terrorism-related offences stemming from accusations he was plotting terror acts against government officials. The party has said Mbowe's arrest and the charges show the new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, is continuing the oppressive policies of her predecessor, John Magufuli, who died in March. Officials deny accusations of rights violations and stifling democracy.…
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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Tragic death of five lifesavers

Tragic death of five lifesavers

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africa is today mourning the deaths of four medics and a pilot who died on a mission to keep others alive. The five were killed enroute to KwaZulu Natal to pick up a critically ill patient. One of the doctors who died in the helicopter crash was part of a team that hours ealier had tried to save the life of Jackson Mthembu, the Minister in the Presidency, who died from COVID-19 complications at the Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg. Dr Kgopotso Rudolph Mononyane, an anaethetist from Johannesburg, delayed the team’s departure to KwaZulu-Natal so that he…
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Sep
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudanese rap thrives with post-uprising freedoms

Sudanese rap thrives with post-uprising freedoms

NEWS
RAPPERS in Sudan taking advantage of looser social controls following the 2019 uprising are seeing their scene expand, rapping in public squares and in concert venues about everything from difficult living conditions to relationship problems. Musician Ahmed Mahdy says the increased freedoms allow his rap group Ijraat, or "procedures", to better reflect the issues they see still plaguing Sudan, which is in the grip of a deep economic crisis and is making a shaky transition to democracy. Ahmed Mahdy, Sudanese rapper and member of the band "Procedures" speaks in a recording studio in Khartoum, Sudan August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin…
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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s cabinet toughens law banning female genital mutilation

Egypt’s cabinet toughens law banning female genital mutilation

NEWS
MENNA A FAROUK EGYPT’S cabinet has toughened a law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) - imposing jail terms of up to 20 years as part of efforts to stamp out the ancient practice. Nearly 90% of Egyptian women and girls aged between 15 and 49 have undergone FGM, according to a 2016 survey by the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the ritual is practised widely by both Muslims and Christians despite the 2008 ban. Amendments to the FGM law approved by the cabinet on Wednesday include hiking the maximum sentence from the current seven years and banning doctors and other…
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Sep
07
2021
By The African Mirror
I’m in good health, says Pele from hospital

I’m in good health, says Pele from hospital

NEWS
FORMER Brazil soccer great Pele has been in hospital for six days with an undisclosed health problem but the 80-year-old is not seriously ill, an advisor to the former Santos and New York Cosmos forward has told Reuters. The Globo news site said Pele was undergoing routine examinations in Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein Hospital when the undisclosed issue was detected. Pele's business manager Joe Fraga said there was no cause for concern. "Full battery of tests/scans/colonoscopy/blood etc," Fraga wrote in a message. "He doesn't do everything in one day." The scare came a few days after Pele was forced to…
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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian youth clash with police

Tunisian youth clash with police

NEWS
TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL THE 19-year-old smoking with friends in a poor district of Tunisia's capital had a simple explanation for night-time clashes between youths and police that have shaken the country - he has nothing to lose. A decade after mass protests toppled Tunisia's long-time president and sparked uprisings across the Middle East, anger is boiling over again amid economic stagnation, the global pandemic and a widening disconnect between people and their leaders. "There's nothing here ... there's no opportunity. The only government we know is the police car coming to arrest people," said Mohammed, surrounded by nodding…
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Sep
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Somali PM suspends intelligence chief

Somali PM suspends intelligence chief

NEWS
SOMALIA’S prime minister has suspended the intelligence chief, prompting a public rebuke from the president and highlighting growing divisions at the heart of the political elite. The suspension - triggered by a dispute over investigations into an unsolved murder - followed months of wrangling that have threatened to further destabilise a country already riven by militant attacks and clan rivalries. Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble said he had told Fahad Yasin, the director of Somalia's National Intelligence Service Agency (NISA), to step aside for failing to deliver a report on the murder of one of the agency's agents. Soon after,…
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