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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
‘South Sudan’s VP Machar ousted as party head’

‘South Sudan’s VP Machar ousted as party head’

NEWS
DENIS DUMO  SOUTH Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar has been deposed as head of his party and its armed forces, rival military leaders have said, a move that could pressure an already fragile peace process. Machar played a major role in pushing his partner, President Salva Kiir, to a peace deal in 2018 and in the subsequent formation of a unity government following years of civil war. But he was stripped of party posts after a three-day meeting of senior leaders of his SPLM/A-IO movement who accused him of undermining reforms and giving family members strategic posts, said a statement…
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Zimbabwe cuts power to some regions

Zimbabwe cuts power to some regions

NEWS
ZIMBABWE has cut electricity supplies to several parts of the country after its biggest coal-fired generating station suffered a technical fault, losing 368 megawatts, the state power utility said. The southern African nation has in the past experienced deep power cuts lasting up to 18 hours due to drought and ageing equipment at its power plants. Hwange Power Station, in western Zimbabwe, has a design capacity of 920 MW but has been generating around 360 MW due to ageing equipment. A technical fault at Hwange Power Station forced the company to curtail supplies, known locally as load shedding, ZESA said…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Loving tributes as Shona Ferguson is laid to rest

Loving tributes as Shona Ferguson is laid to rest

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE life and times of actor and filmmaker Shona Ferguson, who died recently due to COVID-19 complications were celebrated in a special and emotional way as he was laid to rest in Johannesburg today. Ferguson’s widow Connie, their children, brothers and colleagues in the film industry paid warm tributes to him, describing him as a loving father, a dedicated family man.  His daughter Lesedi Masilo-Ferguson recalled the love and laughter that Ferguson shared with her and the family. “You could either hear or smell him. We lost a very special piece of our heart …To the original…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Teenage girls Nigeria ‘open their minds’ with robotics

Teenage girls Nigeria ‘open their minds’ with robotics

NEWS
SEUN SANNI and NNEKA CHILE TEENAGE girls in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are learning robotics, computing and other STEM subjects as part of an innovative project that challenges local views of what girls should be doing in a socially conservative Muslim society. In a place where girls are expected to marry young and their education is often cut short, the Kabara NGO aims to widen their worldview through activities such as building machines, using common software programmes and learning about maths and science. "I came to Kabara to learn robotics and I have created a lot of things,"…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Thirty-seven killed in Mali bus crash

Thirty-seven killed in Mali bus crash

NEWS
THIRTY-seven people were killed in a road accident in south-central Mali on Tuesday, the transport ministry said, after a passenger bus collided with a truck. The force of the crash, which happened 20 km from the town of Segou, sheared off the front section of the bus and scattered luggage and goods across the road, according to photos and video shared online. Injured passengers were being treated in hospital in Segou, the ministry said. Africa has by far the world's most dangerous roads, registering over 26 deaths per 100,000 population, according to the World Health Organisation.
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Fighting displaces 200 000 in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

Fighting displaces 200 000 in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

NEWS
UNITED Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths has revealed that 200,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Ethiopia's Amhara region and 54,000 in its Afar region. In recent weeks fighting has spread into the two regions neighbouring Tigray, where a war erupted eight months ago between Ethiopia's central government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). "We need 100 trucks a day going into Tigray to meet humanitarian needs," Griffiths told reporters in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, adding that the number was a "calculated need" and not "overestimated." The U.N. aid chief said also 122 trucks made it into Tigray…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead

In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead

NEWS
JIHED ABIDELLAOUI AMMAR AWAD AS day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family. Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighborhood of the capital where Tunisia's economic malaise is acutely felt. "Everything has become expensive," said Ghuili, as her children played next to her. Exacerbated by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic grievances have fuelled discontent in Tunisia, leading to protests that encouraged President Kais Saied…
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Feb
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Top DJs Fresh and Euphonik part ways with 947

Top DJs Fresh and Euphonik part ways with 947

NEWS
ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER TWO of South Africa’s popular and powerful radio DJs -  Fresh and Euphonik - have parted ways with their employer, a few weeks after a woman laid rape charges against them. Their employer, Primedia Broadcasting, owner of 947, the radio station where the pair was employed, has announced that the decision to separate with DJ Fresh - real name Thato Sikwane - and DJ Euphonik - real name Themba Nkosi - was taken in the interest of business. In a statement, Geraint Crwys-Williams, the interim chief executive of Primedia Broadcasting, was careful to say that the decision to part…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Egyptian women find help online to fight ‘sextortion’ threats

Egyptian women find help online to fight ‘sextortion’ threats

NEWS
MENNA A. FAROUK RADWA, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman, said her blood ran cold when her ex-boyfriend threatened to send nude photographs of her to her parents in revenge for their break-up. In socially conservative Egypt, the sharing of intimate images can have dire consequences for victims - from public shame to being thrown out of their homes. "I was so terrified. I was slowly dying because of this," Radwa, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Cases of "sextortion" involving threats to share private pictures have been increasing around the world in recent…
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Feb
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Aussie’s loss is African miners’, winemakers’ win

Aussie’s loss is African miners’, winemakers’ win

NEWS
JOE BAVIER, TANISHA HEIBERG and EMMA RUMNEY FOR South African winemaker Vergenoegd Löw, the pandemic could have been a disaster but a bitter trade war between China and Australia has thrown the 325-year-old estate a lifeline. Bottles of its reds, whites and roses piled up when South Africa banned alcohol sales under a strict lockdown and visitors who once flocked to the vineyard near Cape Town to sip wine and snap photos of its famed Indian Runner ducks vanished. That changed when Beijing slapped tariffs of up to 212% on Australian wine in November after Canberra led calls for an…
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