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Feb
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Mozambique to be hit by another tropical storm

Mozambique to be hit by another tropical storm

NEWS
A tropical storm likely to intensify into a cyclone is approaching Mozambique, South Africa's Weather Services (SAWS) said on Wednesday, battering an area hit by cyclone Eloise less than a month back. Tropical storm Guambe is strengthening in the southern half of the Mozambique Channel with a high likelihood of torrential rain, strong winds and flooding along southern Mozambique's coast and adjacent interior regions, especially from Beira through Vilanculos and southward to Inhambane, SAWS said in a statement. This will be the third storm to hit Mozambique's coast in as many months as climate change warms up sea water, making…
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Jul
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Ugandans denounce digital car tracker plan

Ugandans denounce digital car tracker plan

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA A move by Uganda's government to install digital tracking devices on vehicles to help fight rampant crime has been denounced by rights advocates and the opposition who say it will be used to monitor activists, government opponents and critics. Authorities in the east African country last week signed an agreement with Russian firm Joint-Stock Global Systems to install digital trackers in all vehicles in Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni has said his government wants to rely on high-tech tools like a Chinese-supplied and installed CCTV camera system and the digital trackers being procured to help fight and solve crimes.…
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Feb
18
2021
By The African Mirror
TIMELINE – Tracking Ebola outbreaks

TIMELINE – Tracking Ebola outbreaks

NEWS
NITA BHALLA GUINEA and the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to contain fresh outbreaks of Ebola that have killed at least four people, amid fears the virus could spread across the region. It is the first time Ebola has been detected in West Africa since the world's worst outbreak in 2013-2016, which killed 11,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The world's second-deadliest outbreak was declared over last year in Congo, which has also witnessed a resurgence this month. The World Health Organization has warned that the latest cases pose a risk to other African nations and…
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Jul
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Equatorial Guinea detains French military helicopter

Equatorial Guinea detains French military helicopter

NEWS
A French military helicopter carrying six soldiers had been detained after landing in Equatorial Guinea, in a diplomatic incident that demonstrated the strained ties between Malabo and Paris. The helicopter landed in Equatorial Guinea's mainland port of Bata on Wednesday evening, hours after a French court upheld a guilty verdict in an embezzlement case against Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodoro Obiang Mangue. Neither side spoke publicly of any link between the two incidents. Mangue, who is the son and heir-apparent of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, tweeted that a "reconnaissance helicopter" had landed without authorisation after violating Equatorial Guinea's air…
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Jul
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Detained Biafra separatist’s family complain to UK over lack of assistance

Detained Biafra separatist’s family complain to UK over lack of assistance

NEWS
THE family of Nnamdi Kanu, a secessionist leader and British citizen who is detained in Nigeria, has accused Britain of failing to provide him with consular assistance, the family's London lawyers said on Thursday. Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group that campaigns for part of southeastern Nigeria to secede, was brought back to Nigeria in June after years on the run abroad and is being held pending a treason trial. Bindmans, a London law firm, said it had sent a pre-action letter to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on behalf of Kanu's family, challenging Britain's failure…
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Jul
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Eritrean refugees protest in camps

Eritrean refugees protest in camps

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW and AYENAT MERSIE HUNDREDS of Eritrean refugees protested in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday, calling on the United Nations refugee agency to relocate friends and family who they say are trapped in two refugee camps by fighting in the Tigray region. Clashes between armed groups have escalated in and around the camps - Mai Aini and Adi Harush - and two refugees have been killed this month, the UNHCR said this week. The agency said it lost access to the camps on July 14. The United States said on Tuesday it was deeply concerned about the fate of…
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Feb
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill student, kidnap 42 in Nigeria

Gunmen kill student, kidnap 42 in Nigeria

NEWS
GARBA MUHAMMAD UNIDENTIFIED gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in north-central Nigeria yesterday, witnesses said, and the regional government said 42 others including some staff and relatives were kidnapped. The assailants stormed the Government Science secondary school in the Kagara district of Niger state at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school's security detail, according to local residents. One student was killed in the attack, teacher Aliyu Isa and a pupil at the school told local TV news station Channels. Another teacher, who did not want to be named, also told Reuters that one student…
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Jul
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian labour union pushes for roadmap

Tunisian labour union pushes for roadmap

NEWS
TUNISIA’S powerful labour union is preparing a roadmap for steering the country out of a political crisis that it would present to President Kais Saied, who has been accused by critics of a coup for taking over governing powers. Saied still has not announced the appointment of a new prime minister or how he intends to handle the emergency period that he announced on Sunday when he cited a national emergency to dismiss the premier and suspend parliament. His move has left Tunisia's decade-long experiment with democracy at a crossroads, with little public indication of Saied's long-term plans - or…
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Feb
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Silver monolith prompt suspicion, selfies

Silver monolith prompt suspicion, selfies

NEWS
A roundabout in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa has become the latest site occupied by a mystery monolith after similar objects in the United States and elsewhere caught the fancy of science-fiction fans. On Wednesday morning, a crowd of curious onlookers in the Bandal neighbourhood snapped selfies and debated the possible origins of the 12-foot metallic structure that appeared over the weekend, before being pushed back by armed police. Similar alien-looking pillars were spotted in a Utah desert in the United States in November, and then in Romania and Turkey, drawing comparisons to the monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's 1968…
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Jul
30
2021
By The African Mirror
No genocide case against Polisario Front leader

No genocide case against Polisario Front leader

NEWS
SPAIN’S High Court has dropped an investigation into alleged war crimes and genocide against Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali, whose hospitalization in Spain caused a diplomatic row with Morocco. Ghali and other Polisario Front leaders were accused by human rights groups and Western Sahara individuals of genocide, murder, terrorism, torture and disappearances, a court document said. Ghali had appeared remotely in a court hearing last month as part of the investigation. His lawyer said he denied any wrongdoing. The High Court ruled that most of the alleged facts brought against Ghali were covered by the status of limitation. It…
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