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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Kim Kardashian files for divorce

Kim Kardashian files for divorce

NEWS
MPHO RANTAO REALITY star Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from rapper Kanye West after seven years of marriage.  The celebrity pair met whilst Kardashian was finalizing a split with former NBA player Kris Humpries. The couple publicized their relationship in 2012 and tied the knot in Florence, Italy in 2014. The 200-person ceremony was featured on reality show  “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”. The divorce comes after months of speculation after the couple had been reportedly staying in different locations, yet had not publicized the situation due to concern over their four children. Kim has requested joint legal and…
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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
40 witnesses, 70 charges against Magashule & Co

40 witnesses, 70 charges against Magashule & Co

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and 10 fellow accused have six months to prepare their defence against over 70 charges of fraud, corruption and theft in connection with the R250-million asbestos contract. Magashule and his co-accused made a brief appearance in the Bloemfontein High Court today, where they were joined by three other Free State government officials who were arrested yesterday. The three were released on bail of R50 000 each. The case against the 11 was postponed to August 11. The National Prosecuting Authority's spokesperson Sipho Ngwema told reporters outside court that the prosecution was ready…
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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Somali government forces, opposition clash

Somali government forces, opposition clash

NEWS
ABDI SHEIK SOMALI government troops and opposition supporters - including some soldiers - exchanged gunfire in Mogadishu yesterday in street clashes that broke out during a protest march over delayed elections. Demonstrators said they had been attacked first by the government forces. Residents reported sporadic shooting and said rocket-propelled grenades had also been fired. The violence, which followed fighting overnight, subsided by Friday afternoon. But it fueled concern that the military could split along clan lines. It could also strengthen an al Qaeda-linked insurgency, especially as hundreds of U.S. troops have just pulled out of Somalia. Lawmakers were due to…
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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Sahara dust chokes Senegal’s capital

Sahara dust chokes Senegal’s capital

NEWS
A cloud of dust brought by dry winds from the Sahara has settled over much of West and Central Africa, reducing visibility, choking residents, and disrupting fishing in the Senegal's capital Dakar. Each year, dry, dusty winds sweep in from the Sahara and cover much of West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. The yearly phenomenon, known as the Harmattan season, runs from November through March. "Those who have toddlers with poor health like mine, who is not yet one year old, cannot work properly," said Khoudia Ndiaye, who sells fish at a market in Dakar. "Yesterday I couldn't work…
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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria dissolves lower house of parliament

Algeria dissolves lower house of parliament

NEWS
HAMID OULD AHMED ALGERIAN President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and called early legislative elections. Addressing the nation on state television, Tebboune announced a government reshuffle in the next 24-48 hours and ordered the release of 60 detainees of a protest movement that forced his predecessor, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, from power in 2019. "I decided to dissolve the assembly and call elections to build a new institution," he said, without giving a date for the elections. The current lawmakers of the lower house had been elected for five years in May 2017, with Bouteflika's…
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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo confirms two new Ebola cases

Congo confirms two new Ebola cases

NEWS
THE Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed two new cases of Ebola, including one far from the centre of the outbreak, provincial Health Minister Eugene Nzanzu Salita has disclosed. The cases were found in Katwa and in Manguredjipa, which is about 150 km (93 miles) west of the city of Butembo, where all the previous cases have been clustered. One of the new cases was a known contact of another patient, but investigations are under way for the second to know how he might have been infected, said Salita. Congo has now confirmed a total of six Ebola cases and…
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Feb
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Children seen at risk of recruitment in C.A.R fighting

Children seen at risk of recruitment in C.A.R fighting

NEWS
EMELINE WUILBERCQ ARMED groups have recruited nearly 3,000 children in Central African Republic (CAR) since violence flared over a December 27 election result and more are at risk as aid fails to reach many people driven from their homes, aid workers said. More than 210,000 people have been uprooted by the fighting, with children increasingly vulnerable to forcible recruitment as humanitarian supplies are cut off by widespread violence and attacks on aid convoys, leaving tens of thousands in dire need. "Children are increasingly exposed to recruitment by armed men for about $30, and many carry the scars and trauma from…
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Jul
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Over 100 000 Tigray children at risk

Over 100 000 Tigray children at risk

NEWS
GIULIA PARAVICINI and STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE United Nations children's agency has revealed that more than 100 000 children in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray could suffer life-threatening malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold increase to normal numbers. UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado said that one-in-two pregnant and breastfeeding women screened in Tigray were acutely malnourished. "Our worst fears about the health and well-being of children... are being confirmed," she told a briefing in Geneva. Spokespeople for the prime minister and a government task force on Tigray - where fighting between rebellious regional and federal forces have continued since November…
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Jul
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Libya’s key coast road open

Libya’s key coast road open

NEWS
LIBYA'S warring sides reopened the main coast road across the frontline, a key element of a ceasefire they agreed last year that has involved months of negotiations. The U.N.-backed 5+5 committee drawn from commander Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and western-based forces that have supported Tripoli-based governments said in a statement the road was open from 0900 GMT. The road, which stretches along the length of Libya's coastline, the most populated part of the country, was cut between the cities of Misrata and Sirte, where the frontline stabilised last summer. It was not open to military traffic, the…
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Feb
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Ghana-based $55-million cyber fraud scam bust

Ghana-based $55-million cyber fraud scam bust

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A joint operation by three US law enforcement agencies have led to the arrest of 6 members of a cyber crimes gang involved in a $55-million money laundering scheme and seized luxury vehicles including two Rolls Royce Cullinans, a Bentley Continental GT as well as a Mercedes Benz G63 AMG. The FBI said the six were arrested in multiple states across the US for laundering proceeds from fraud schemes, targeting victims across the US by a Ghana-based criminal enterprise  Those arrested by the FBI are Farouk Appiedu (35), Fred Asante (35), Celvin Freeman (47), Lord Aning (28),…
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