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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
SA President honours police officers who died in the line of duty

SA President honours police officers who died in the line of duty

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ON a cloudy day in Pretoria, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa met with each of the 34 families of police officers who died in the line of duty in the past year. Ramaphosa spent time individually with widows, widowers, sisters, brothers and the children of officers to reinforce a message he had delivered in the keynote speech at the National Police Commemoration Day. The President said: “Nothing can ever take away the pain of losing a loved one. And yet amid the despair and sorrow, there is a firm determination that the lives lost should not be…
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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopians dying, hungry and fearful in war-hit Tigray

Ethiopians dying, hungry and fearful in war-hit Tigray

NEWS
ETHIOPIANS in the war-scarred north are dying from lack of healthcare services, are suffering food and water shortages, and remain "terrified", according to aid agencies finally accessing remoter parts of Tigray region. Just when people were harvesting crops in early November, the federal army launched an offensive against forces of the former local ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), whom it accused of insurrection. Thousands died and more than 300,000 fled their homes during battles and air-strikes, creating a humanitarian crisis in the already poor region of about 5 million people. Though the government captured regional capital Mekelle…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
The woman mechanic

The woman mechanic

NEWS
TAFADZWA UFUMELI THE Nissan SUV in the workshop looks like it took several days to be worked on. It's finally time to start it up and return it to the owner. And so Memory Bere, carrying a battery to get it going, walks over. She's wearing a black shirt inscribed "Work Hard, Dream Big". Selecting a spanner, she installs the battery. It doesn't have enough power to start the car. "Bring me another battery with power, including jump-starting cables," comes the startlingly loud shout from under the hood. A second battery later, the engine finally catches with a roar, blowing…
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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Malian police disperse protest against French military presence

Malian police disperse protest against French military presence

NEWS
MALIAN security forces used tear gas to disperse an unsanctioned protest in the capital Bamako against France's military presence in the country, one of the rally's organisers said. France has more than 5,100 military personnel based in Mali and the West African Sahel region to help counter militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, an involvement that is facing increased opposition at home and in Mali. Malian authorities, who have denounced those opposed to the French military presence, deployed police in riot gear to block around 1,000 protesters from gathering in Bamako's Independence Square, said organiser Adama Diarra. "We…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Peacemaker Maphatsoe laid to rest

Peacemaker Maphatsoe laid to rest

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER AMID the echoes of intermittent machine gun fire, family, friends and comrades of the late ANC MP Kebby Maphatsoe paid tribute to him at a funeral service held in Protea Glen, Soweto. Gwede Mantashe, the ANC national chairman and Minister of Minerals and Energy described Maphatsoe as a capable leader. “He understood that when you have different views you are not enemies and have a responsibility to discuss your disagreement,” he said. Mantashe also said Maphatsoe, who was involved in efforts to unite veterans of the ANC former armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was a peacemaker.…
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Jan
21
2021
By The African Mirror
South African cabinet minister dies of COVID-19

South African cabinet minister dies of COVID-19

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER JACKSON Mthembu, South Africa’s minister in the Presidency, passed today from COVID-19 complications. South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the passing of a man who has become the first member of his executive to die from a pandemic that has claimed over 34 000 lives in SA and infected over 1.3-million. Mthembu was the spokesperson of the government and the face of its campaigns to raise awareness of the dangers of COVID-19. He hosted many media conferences where his colleagues in government outlined government programmes to combat the pandemic. Ramaphosa said: "It is with deep sorrow and…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Libya frees son of Muammar Gaddafi

Libya frees son of Muammar Gaddafi

NEWS
LIBYAN authorities have released Saadi Gaddafi, a son of the former leader Muammar Gaddafi who was ousted and killed during a 2011 uprising, a Libyan official source and a unity government source has said. Saadi Gaddafi fled for Niger during the NATO-backed uprising, but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned since then in Tripoli. He immediately departed on a plane to Istanbul, the official source said. Libya has suffered chaos, division and violence in the decade since the uprising. The Government of National Unity was installed in March as part of a peace push that was…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudan probes weapons flown in from Ethiopia

Sudan probes weapons flown in from Ethiopia

NEWS
SUDANESE authorities have seized a cargo of 72 boxes of weapons that arrived by air from Ethiopia and that they suspect were destined for use in "crimes against the state", Sudan's state news agency, SUNA, has reported. The shipment is being investigated by a committee tasked with dismantling the government of former President Omar al-Bashir, who was toppled in April 2019 after a popular uprising. The weapons had arrived in Ethiopia from Moscow in May 2019, the committee found. The intended recipient of the weapons was unclear but the committee did not rule out that they were meant for former…
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Sep
05
2021
By The African Mirror
How Chadians torture victims faced ex-president

How Chadians torture victims faced ex-president

NEWS
RICCI SHRYOCK CLEMENT Abaifouta, 55, has been waiting nearly 25 years to put one question to Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad: “Why did you arrest me?” Video: The Gravedigger and the President https://youtu.be/G1Lh4w6Bj3g Film by Aida Grovestins and Ricci Shryock  Abaifouta was arrested on 12 July, 1985, when he was 23 years old. He had won a scholarship to study in Germany and reckons his travel plans raised suspicions in Habré's government that he was an opposition supporter.  Instead of going to university, he first spent two weeks at the headquarters of the political police, known as the Documentation…
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Sep
05
2021
By The African Mirror
South Africa plunged into a local election frenzy

South Africa plunged into a local election frenzy

NEWS
SOUTH AFRICA'S top court's dismissal of an application by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to postpone local elections due on October 27, has plunged the country into an election frenzy. The IEC's commissioners and top executives are meeting this weekend to align their plans with the judgment and finalise the election timetable. The institution has announced that it would convene an urgent meeting of all political parties to discuss the implications of the Constitutional Court judgment. In a statement, the IEC said: "The Electoral Commission notes the order handed down by the Constitutional Court in which it dismissed an application…
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