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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
73 Nigerian school children abducted

73 Nigerian school children abducted

NEWS
ARMED men kidnapped 73 children from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in the latest mass abduction in the region, police have said in a statement. Police said a large number of armed bandits invaded the Government Day Secondary School in the village of Kaya in rural Zamfara state at 11:22 am local time (1022 GMT). "The command ... has deployed search and rescue team that was mandated to work in synergy with the military to ensure the safe rescue of the abducted students," Zamfara police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in the statement. Armed gangs seeking ransoms…
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Six Kenyan police officers charged over murder of brothers

Six Kenyan police officers charged over murder of brothers

NEWS
SIX Kenyan police officers have been charged with murdering two brothers, a month after the deaths that triggered widespread protests. The officers - four men and two women - all pleaded not guilty and were remanded in custody, one of their lawyers, Danstan Omari, said. The two brothers, Emmanuel Mutura Ndwiga and Benson Njiru Ndwiga, were found dead in a morgue in the eastern county of Embu in early August, The Standard Newspaper and other Kenyan media reported. The young men had been arrested by police days earlier on charges of violating a curfew imposed to contain the coronavirus, media…
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Catastrophe looms in Ethiopia – UN

Catastrophe looms in Ethiopia – UN

NEWS
A de facto blockade on aid to the Tigray region in Ethiopia's north is bringing millions of people to the brink of famine, the United Nations humanitarian agency has said, warning of "looming catastrophe". The U.N. agency OCHA called on all parties in a 10-month-old war in Tigray to allow the movement of aid into the region where it said 5.2 million people, or 90% of the population, urgently need humanitarian assistance. Those include 400,000 people who are already facing famine conditions, it said. War broke out in November between Ethiopia's federal troops and forces loyal to the Tigray People's…
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Sep
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Tanzania gunman ‘was a terrorist’

Tanzania gunman ‘was a terrorist’

NEWS
TANZANIA police have described a slain gunman who killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a diplomatic quarter of Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam last month as a terrorist. In the August 25 attack, Hamza Mohammed shot police officers with a pistol at a city intersection before taking their rifles and heading to the nearby French embassy where he shot the security guard. Hamza was eventually shot dead. "Our investigation has found that Hamza was a terrorist," Camilius Wambura, Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI), told reporters in the lake city of Mwanza. The…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Thousands of Central Africans seek refuge in Cameroon

Thousands of Central Africans seek refuge in Cameroon

NEWS
Sitting at the bar of a hotel in Garoua-Boulaï, a small town in eastern Cameroon on the border with the Central African Republic, a middle-aged man makes a series of phone calls. Just a few weeks ago, he was a candidate in legislative elections in the Central African town of Bouar.   Insurgent incursions and violence put an end to his campaign. Together with many other inhabitants of the town, including farmers, merchants and civil servants, he had to flee in the direction of Cameroon.  "Now I'm stuck. The road is blocked," explains the man*, who is now looking for a…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
COVID-19 school closures: Traffickers eye children

COVID-19 school closures: Traffickers eye children

NEWS
KIERAN GUILBERT HUMAN traffickers worldwide are increasingly targeting children and will likely exploit school closures during the coronavirus pandemic to abuse the young, the United Nations said. Children make up a third of trafficking victims who are uncovered - a share that has tripled in the past 15 years, with girls mainly exploited for sex and boys forced into work, a report by the U.N. Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found. About 49,000 victims were detected and reported in total in 2018 - up from 24,000 in 2016 - according to the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, which was based…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma faces new criminal charges

Zuma faces new criminal charges

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE judicial commission into state capture is going toe-to-toe with former president Jacob Zuma, who has declared that he will defy the summons as well as a ruling by the Constitutional Court to appear and testify. The commission, chaired by Deputy President Raymond Zondo, announced yesterday that it will lay criminal charges against Zuma, who on Monday declared that he does not fear being arrested. Zuma made it clear, in a lengthy statement, that he would defy the order by the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, which ruled that he must appear, as summoned,…
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Sep
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Libya safe house offered haven for migrants

Libya safe house offered haven for migrants

NEWS
HALIMA William crossed the desert from Nigeria to Libya hoping to reach Europe for a better life but was forced into prostitution until she was able to escape and find refuge in a rare safe house. The story of William, 23, and her husband Mark, 27, who also faced detention and abuse, show the risks facing ever-growing numbers of migrants seeking what they hope will be safety and prosperity in the West. Though they were reunited by chance at the safe house in the town of Bani Walid, where they have been able to find a semblance of security for…
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Feb
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Sahel internal displacement tops 2 million as violence surges

Sahel internal displacement tops 2 million as violence surges

NEWS
ON the evening of 31 December, as the hours ticked down to the New Year, 40-year-old Aguiratou Diallo was at home with her four children in their village near the town of Koumbri in northern Burkina Faso, when a group of armed men burst into the courtyard outside.  "They threatened to hurt us if we were still there when they returned the next day. Then they fired into the air to scare us," said Aguiratou, whose husband was away at work at the time. "I was so frightened. The whole family – including my grandmother, aunt, and my husband's brothers…
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Sep
02
2021
By The African Mirror
SA’s ex-minister could face criminal charges

SA’s ex-minister could face criminal charges

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER DR Zweli Mkhize, South Africa’s former health minister who resigned at the height of a corruption scandal, faces possible criminal charges. This was revealed by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) during a presentation to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts. According to Advocate Andy Mothibi’s presentation to the committee, the evidence of possible criminal conduct in the Digital Vibes matter, which involves a R150-million communication tender awarded to close associates of Mkhize. Mkhize’s case is among the 19 cases referred to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for a decision. Mothibi said the SIU had hoped that its…
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