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Nov
26
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Tanzania crisis: ICC filing, regional isolation mount pressure on President Hassan

Tanzania crisis: ICC filing, regional isolation mount pressure on President Hassan

NEWS
TANZANIA finds itself at the centre of an escalating international crisis as President Samia Suluhu Hassan faces mounting accusations of electoral theft, widespread human rights violations, and what a confidential dossier describes as crimes against humanity that have left thousands dead. The gravity of the situation became starkly apparent this week when former South African President Thabo Mbeki, speaking through his foundation, declared that Tanzania "currently lacks a legitimate government," asserting that the administration led by President Hassan "has been imposed upon the people through a combination of force and fraudulent means." Mbeki's intervention carries particular weight given his stature…
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Dec
25
2020
By The African Mirror
Scarred by 2020, Gen Z looks to a COVID-free future

Scarred by 2020, Gen Z looks to a COVID-free future

NEWS
LIVES that had been focussed on school, university, sports or even going to K-pop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck. While a lot was heard about older people at risk from COVID-19, this younger generation - born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s - also saw their worlds turned upside down in 2020. Reuters profiled 10 young people around the world to learn how their lives had been affected by the coronavirus. Shut up in bedrooms - many forced to live with their parents - some went from being students, athletes…
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Nov
27
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Africa demands seat at world’s most powerful table as Nigeria leads UN Security Council reform push

Africa demands seat at world’s most powerful table as Nigeria leads UN Security Council reform push

NEWS
AFRICA is intensifying its decades-long campaign to claim permanent seats with veto power on the United Nations Security Council, with Nigeria spearheading calls for what leaders describe as an overdue overhaul of the global governance system. Speaking at the 7th African Union–European Union Summit, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared that the time has come for the continent to secure full representation on the world's most exclusive decision-making body - a 15-member council where five permanent members have held veto authority since 1945. "It is time for Africa to occupy permanent seats on the UN Security Council, with all attendant…
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Nov
25
2025
By STAFF REPORTER
Dramatic Reversal: Duduzile Zuma claims she was first victim, files counter-charges

Dramatic Reversal: Duduzile Zuma claims she was first victim, files counter-charges

NEWS
IN a stunning reversal that has upended South Africa's most explosive political scandal in years, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has admitted her role in recruiting men sent to Russia but declared under oath that she was not the mastermind but rather "the first victim" of an elaborate deception orchestrated by a man she had never met. The Member of Parliament's sworn affidavit, submitted to Sandton Police Station on Monday afternoon, presents a sharply contrasting narrative to accusations made days earlier by her elder sister and has triggered a counter-investigation now targeting Blessing Rhulani Khoza as the alleged architect of the scheme. The…
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Nov
25
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Nigeria: 50 abducted students escape, church hostages freed – over 250 children missing

Nigeria: 50 abducted students escape, church hostages freed – over 250 children missing

NEWS
Fifty schoolchildren have escaped from kidnappers who seized 303 students from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria, while 38 church worshippers abducted in a separate attack have been freed, authorities have said, as Nigeria faces mounting pressure to rescue more than 250 children still in captivity. The students, aged 10 to 18, fled individually between Friday and Saturday from their captors, according to the Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Niger state and proprietor of the school. A total of 253 schoolchildren and 12 teachers remain in the hands of the kidnappers. "We…
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Nov
25
2025
By SETH ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
Africa’s climate fix that almost everyone missed

Africa’s climate fix that almost everyone missed

NEWS
AFRICAN governments are moving faster than most of the world to put soil health at the centre of climate action, according to a new analysis that highlights a major blind spot in global climate planning. A review of Nationally Determined Contributions by the Save Soil campaign shows that 70% of countries still do not treat soil or agriculture as meaningful mitigation tools — even though soils are the planet’s largest terrestrial carbon sink. The report came on the back of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where campaigners hoped soil-carbon targets would finally be recognised. “Soils can deliver close to 27% of…
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Nov
26
2025
By The African Mirror
Zimbabwean sentenced for fraud after using fake documents to secure R1.6m job

Zimbabwean sentenced for fraud after using fake documents to secure R1.6m job

NEWS
A Zimbabwean national who fraudulently obtained a permanent residence permit and used fake immigration documents to secure a high-paying position as Chief Financial Officer at the North West Development Corporation has been convicted and sentenced. Kudakwashe Mpofu, former CFO of the state-owned entity, was sentenced by the Mmabatho Regional Court on 12 November 2025 on two counts of fraud following a Special Investigating Unit probe. The court handed down three years' imprisonment on the first count, with potential placement under correctional supervision, and a further three years wholly suspended for five years on the second count, conditional on no further…
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Nov
24
2025
By JOVIAL RANTAO
Africa delivers historic G20 summit, places continental agenda at centre of globe

Africa delivers historic G20 summit, places continental agenda at centre of globe

NEWS
SOUTH Africa successfully concluded the first-ever G20 summit on African soil Sunday, securing a landmark 122-point declaration despite a US boycott and delivering what President Cyril Ramaphosa called a "renewed commitment to multilateral cooperation." The historic gathering at Johannesburg's Nasrec Expo Centre saw global leaders refuse to allow the conspicuous absence of US President Donald Trump to derail proceedings, instead forging ahead with an ambitious agenda that placed Africa's development priorities firmly at the heart of international economic cooperation. "Our shared goals outweigh our differences," Ramaphosa declared at the summit's closing ceremony, following a weekend that saw intensive diplomatic engagement…
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Nov
25
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Cameroonian opposition leader seeks asylum in Gambia following deadly post-election violence

Cameroonian opposition leader seeks asylum in Gambia following deadly post-election violence

NEWS
GAMBIA has granted temporary asylum to Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary on humanitarian grounds, officials have announced, following a disputed presidential election that triggered deadly protests in Cameroon last month. The case highlights a recurring pattern across East and West Africa where opposition politicians challenging incumbent presidents face state-sponsored harassment, including detention, violence, and disruption of political activities, often forcing them to flee their countries. Tchiroma's whereabouts had been unknown for weeks after he rejected the results of Cameroon's presidential election. Paul Biya, 92, the world's oldest head of state and president since 1982, was declared the winner with…
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Nov
23
2025
By JOVIAL RANTAO
When the rain falls: Africa’s G20 declaration and the new world order

When the rain falls: Africa’s G20 declaration and the new world order

NEWS
THE rain fell on Nasrec on Saturday afternoon, as it often does during Johannesburg's summer storms — sudden, powerful, unapologetic. Inside the Nasrec Expo Centre, another kind of storm was breaking: the world's major economies, gathered on African soil for the first time in G20 history, were doing something extraordinary. They were moving forward. Without America. By late afternoon, as lightning crackled across the Gauteng sky, the G20 leaders had adopted their declaration. The document  - addressing climate change, debt sustainability, energy transitions, and the development priorities of the Global South - represented not just policy consensus but a seismic…
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