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Sep
04
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Worst Tripoli fighting in a year’

‘Worst Tripoli fighting in a year’

NEWS
AHMED ELUMANI FIGHTING broke out in Tripoli early on Friday between rival armed forces, the heaviest clashes in the Libyan capital since the conflict between eastern and western factions paused a year ago. A resident of the Salah al-Din district in southern Tripoli said the shooting began at about 2.30 a.m. and continued through the morning with medium and light weapons. Conflict in Tripoli between the armed groups who vie to control both territory and state institutions would further undermine the prospect of December elections as part of a plan to end a decade of chaos, violence and division. Despite…
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Sep
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Five girls rescued after Nigeria’s latest abductions

Five girls rescued after Nigeria’s latest abductions

NEWS
FIVE girls who were among 73 children kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, police in Zamfara State said, although other sources gave different details in the aftermath of the mass abduction. The attack on a secondary school in the village of Kaya was the latest in a spree of raids on schools across the northwest by armed gangs seeking ransoms. More than 1,100 children and teenagers have been abducted since December. "The ongoing search and rescue mission is yielding positive result as five abducted female students were today rescued," Zamfara State Police said in a statement.…
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Sep
04
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC wants Angola to pay for deaths

DRC wants Angola to pay for deaths

NEWS
HEREWARD HOLLAND and HELEN REID THE Democratic Republic of Congo will seek compensation from the owners of an Angolan diamond mine after a tailings dam leak polluted drinking water, causing 12 deaths and making thousands of people ill, according to the country's environment minister. The late-July leak from Angola's biggest diamond mine turned a tributary of the Congo River red following a rupture in a spillway for the mine's tailings dam, which stores mining industry waste meant to stay undisturbed. Researchers at Kinshasha University last month pointed to "huge pollution" that affected some 2 million people, killed fish and caused…
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Sep
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Puntland sends troops to fight al Shabaab

Puntland sends troops to fight al Shabaab

NEWS
SOMALIA’S semi-autonomous region of Puntland has sent forces to the neighbouring region of Galmudug to help the military there push al Shabaab Islamist militants out of a strategic town they captured last month. Al Shabaab fighters last month attacked a military base in the Galmudug town of Amara and took control of it after battling with government special force units, known as Danab and Darawish. Amara is a strategic town that lies on the route to the coastal town of Harardheere, another al Shabaab stronghold. The governor of Puntland's Mudug region, Abdilatif Muse Nuru San Yare, told Reuters they had…
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Jan
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Fireworks explode over empty streets as 2020 slinks away into history

Fireworks explode over empty streets as 2020 slinks away into history

NEWS
THE Sydney Opera House fireworks soared into the sky, but the harbour below was empty as a ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed. No light show will illuminate Beijing from the top of the TV tower. The lions of London's Trafalfar Square will be barricaded off. In Rome, crowds will not assemble in St Peter's Square, the Pope will lead no mass, and revelers will not make their yearly dive into the Tiber. The New Year's Eve ball will drop on Broadway. But in place of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers…
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
TV presenter convicted of glorifying rape

TV presenter convicted of glorifying rape

NEWS
A television presenter in Ivory Coast was convicted of glorifying rape and given a one-year suspended prison sentence for asking a convicted rapist he invited onto his prime-time show to simulate a sexual assault using a mannequin. The court also fined the presenter, Yves de Mbella, 2 million CFA francs ($3,619.91) and banned him from leaving Abidjan, the country's commercial capital, for one year, a spokesperson for Ivory Coast's justice system told Reuters. The man who appeared on the show was sentenced to two years in prison, the spokesperson said. De Mbella has apologised for the segment in which he…
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Feb
04
2021
By The African Mirror
No schmoozing and boozing as the Indaba mining jamboree goes online

No schmoozing and boozing as the Indaba mining jamboree goes online

NEWS
WENDELL ROELF and TANISHA HEIBERG THE prospect of chasing cocktails and contacts in the shadow of Table Mountain draws executives and officials from around the world to Cape Town each year for Africa's biggest mining conference. But this year the Investing in African Mining Indaba is online only and has been cut to two days rather than four as a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps South Africa. For the mining industry, it means not only foregoing Cape Town's famed wines, vistas and sun but also a key deal-making and networking opportunity - not to mention the blow to…
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
‘They told us they hate Africans’

‘They told us they hate Africans’

NEWS
MAYA GEBEILY KABRIRAT Olokunde, a Nigerian migrant worker, planned to spend her birthday with friends in the city of Abu Dhabi. Instead, she turned 28 in a frigid prison cell, one of about 700 Africans imprisoned by Emirati authorities without charge. In unparalleled mass arrests, the workers were jailed with "no legal justification" on the night of June 24-25 and later started being deported, said ImpACT International for Human Rights Policies and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. "I celebrated my birthday in chains, with no mattress," Olokunde said by phone from the Nigerian city of Lagos, where she was deported…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Mozambique president dragged into debt scandal

Mozambique president dragged into debt scandal

NEWS
A Lebanese shipbuilder at the centre of a $2 billion debt scandal in Mozambique said it made payments to its now-president and ruling party in 2014, but said these were legal campaign donations not bribes, according to a London court filing. Privinvest said payments made to President Filipe Nyusi in the run-up to his election and to the Frelimo party were allowed under Mozambican law, according to the January 15 filing at London's High Court. The case relates to a series of tuna fishing, maritime security and shipbuilding projects in which Privinvest was the sole contractor and for which Mozambique…
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Sep
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Two more arrested for whistleblower’s murder

Two more arrested for whistleblower’s murder

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER TWO more suspects have been arrested in Johannesburg in connection with the assassination of anti-corruption witness and whistleblower Babita Deokaran. Police Minister Bheki Cele has revealed during an interview with Newzroom Afrika that in addition to arresting the two suspects, police also seized two cars - a van and a sedan - a firearm and lots of cash.  The arrests brings to eight, the number of suspects arrested in connection with the August 23 murder of Deokaran (53), whose murder has led to nationwide concerns about the safety of witnesses and whistleblowers. Deokaran, who was a senior…
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