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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
‘French bombs hit wedding’

‘French bombs hit wedding’

NEWS
AARON ROSS THREE villagers in northern Mali told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that a French airstrike this month hit a wedding party attended by civilians, disputing French claims that only Islamist militants were hit. Different sides have offered contradictory accounts of the Jan. 3 strike outside the village of Bounti. The French military said it killed about 30 Islamist fighters - a version backed by Malian authorities. The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the HRW report. It has previously said its intelligence before and after the strike allowed it to exclude the possibility of…
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Sep
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Phone blackout imposed in Nigeria

Phone blackout imposed in Nigeria

NEWS
MOBILE telephone networks were shut down in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, residents have said, after authorities ordered a telecoms blackout to help armed forces tackle armed gangs of kidnappers terrorising the area. Two residents of Zamfara, reached by phone after they travelled to neighbouring Sokoto State, said their mobile networks had stopped functioning over the weekend. Calls to police and officials inside the state were not going through. The blackout was "to enable relevant security agencies (to) carry out required activities towards addressing the security challenge in the state", according to a letter from the Nigerian Communications Commission…
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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Another storm, growing stronger, set to hit central Mozambique

Another storm, growing stronger, set to hit central Mozambique

NEWS
A powerful storm approaching Mozambique is expected to intensify into a tropical cyclone on Friday, the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA said, bringing heavy winds and rains to a region devastated by Cyclone Idai nearly two years ago. Tropical storm Eloise is currently over the Mozambique channel and is expected to slam into the country's central region on Saturday, hitting the port city of Beira and surrounding areas, which bore the brunt of Idai in March 2019. "There are growing concerns regarding the potential for widespread floods, with all river basins in Sofala and Inhambane provinces already above alert levels…
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Jan
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt and Qatar resume diplomatic ties

Egypt and Qatar resume diplomatic ties

NEWS
EGYPT and Qatar have agreed to resume diplomatic relations, the Egyptian foreign ministry said, making Cairo the first country to officially do so under an Arab deal to end a long-running dispute with Doha. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt agreed earlier this month to restore diplomatic, trade and travel ties severed in 2017 over allegations Qatar supported terrorism, a charge that Doha denies. "The Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Qatar exchanged two official memoranda, in virtue of which the two countries agreed to resume diplomatic relations," a Foreign Ministry statement said. Saudi Arabia's…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Municipal elections: Relief for SA parties

Municipal elections: Relief for SA parties

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African political parties who had missed the deadline to register candidates for the municipal elections have been given a lifeline by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). The IEC announced today that registration for candidates would be reopened and political parties will be able to register their candidates on September 19 and 20. The announcement would come as a great relief to the ANC, the dominant party in most municipalities which had failed to register candidates in several municipalities. IEC commissioners have dismissed allegations that the re-opening of registration for candidates was designed to favour the ANC.…
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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
43 Africans drown off Libya

43 Africans drown off Libya

NEWS
AT least 43 West African migrants trying to reach Europe drowned off the coast of Libya, after their boat capsized in rough seas, in the first shipwreck of 2021 in the central Mediterranean, United Nations agencies have said. Ten survivors were rescued and brought to shore by coastal security in Zuwahra, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a joint statement. War-ravaged Libya is a major route for migrants seeking to reach Europe. The U.N. agencies called for reactivating state-led search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean and for a halt to returning migrants…
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Sep
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma’s medical parole: Opposition parties unhappy

Zuma’s medical parole: Opposition parties unhappy

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African opposition parties have expressed their unhappiness at the decision to grant medical parole to the country’s former president Jacob Zuma and have called for transparency and accountability. Zuma, 79, has served two of his 15 months prison sentence and has been in hospital for over two weeks after he underwent surgery. The Democratic Alliance (DA), the official opposition has called the decision to grant Zuma medical parole unlawful and wants the man who took the decision, Arthur Fraser, the Commissioner of Correctional Services, to be hauled to parliament to explain himself. DA leader John Steenhuysen…
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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
100 hours in the dark in Uganda

100 hours in the dark in Uganda

NEWS
NITA BHALLA and ALICE McCOOL WHEN Uganda ordered an internet shutdown on the eve of the presidential election, groundnut seller Susan Tafumba's trade collapsed. The 34-year-old sells groundnuts at Kampala's Nakawa market, but much of her business now comes through a mobile phone app that customers use to order goods to be delivered to them by motorcycle taxis. "Usually the app gets us more profit than those people who come on a daily basis to the market, but we lost customers," said Tafumba, one of countless small traders whose increasingly tech-dependent livelihoods were hit by the shutdown. "Now, we are…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
African nerds in frontlines against cybercrime

African nerds in frontlines against cybercrime

NEWS
JAMAINE KRIGE, BIRD WHEN Thabo Mahlangu was in his second year of high school, he went to an open day at the Tshwane University of Technology and was amazed by the projects on display. “All the things I had always dreamed of building - these guys could build!” That’s when he decided to pursue a career in technology, eventually deciding on computer systems engineering. These days, when asked what he does for a living, Thabo Mahlangu laughs and describes himself as a ‘professional nerd’. He is much more than that. As a senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher at South Africa’s…
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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Intensifying Islamist insurgency in Mozambique drives humanitarian crisis

Intensifying Islamist insurgency in Mozambique drives humanitarian crisis

NEWS
MORE than half-a-million people have fled their homes due to an Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique, and the violence and humanitarian crisis will worsen without international help, according to United Nations officials. "If nothing is done soon, we won't have only 535,000 displaced people. We won't have only 2,000 people killed by the conflict, but tens of thousands," said Valentin Tapsoba, regional director for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). The displaced people were in a dire situation, with overcrowding, malnutrition and a lack of essentials including food and water, the officials said in an online news briefing. Insurgents staged…
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