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Jul
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt’s historic ancient discoveries

Egypt’s historic ancient discoveries

NEWS
DIVERS have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion - once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean - and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants, the country has announced. The city, which controlled the entrance to Egypt at the mouth of a western branch of the Nile, dominated the area for centuries before the foundation of Alexandria nearby by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Destroyed and sunk along with a wide area of the Nile delta by several earthquakes and tidal waves, Thônis-Heracleion was rediscovered in 2001 in Abu…
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Jul
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Tigray forces enter neighbouring Afar

Tigray forces enter neighbouring Afar

NEWS
DAWIT ENDERSHAW and MAGGIE RICK  Forces from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have mounted attacks in the neighbouring Afar region, a spokesman for Afar said on Monday, marking an expansion of an eight-month-old conflict into a previously untouched area. Tigrayan fighters crossed into Afar on Saturday and Afar forces and allied militias were still fighting them on Monday, Afar spokesman Ahmed Koloyta said. "Now (Ethiopian military forces) are on their way and we will work with them to eliminate (the Tigrayan forces)," he said. Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigrayan forces, confirmed they had been fighting over the weekend in…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Italian envoy, two others killed in DRC attack

Italian envoy, two others killed in DRC attack

NEWS
ITALY's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and two other people were killed on Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in eastern Congo, Italy’s foreign ministry and park authorities said. The convoy was attacked at around 10:15 a.m. (0815 GMT)during an attempted kidnap by assailants near the town of Kanyamahoro, a few kilometres (miles) north of the regional capital Goma, the Virunga National Park told Reuters. The Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, and a military policeman travelling with him were killed, the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement. The park had said earlier that two people…
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Jul
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Moroccan court sentences reporter

Moroccan court sentences reporter

NEWS
A Moroccan court has jailed dissident reporter Omar Radi for six years on sexual assault and espionage charges, which he denied, in a case that has alarmed rights groups. Radi, who has been in pretrial detention for almost a year, said he had consensual sex with his accuser Hafsa Boutahar and rejected all espionage accusations. Radi's lawyer, Ali Amar, said the charges lacked evidence and that the verdict will be appealed. Amnesty International said the trial "was marred by blatant breaches of due process". The verdict was announced 10 days after the same court in Casablanca handed a five-year jail…
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Jul
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Court grants Zuma postponement

Court grants Zuma postponement

NEWS
ALEXANDER WINNING and WENDELL ROELF A South African court today adjourned former president Jacob Zuma's arms deal corruption trial to August 10, granting the ex-president the postponement he had applied for so that he can appear in person rather than virtually. Zuma is currently in prison after earlier this month starting a 15-month sentence for contempt of court. On August 10, the court is expected to adjudicate on Zuma's application, raised in a special plea, that leading prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer should recuse himself from the case. The state has opposed the application. Judge Piet Koen has also ordered that…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Libyan interior minister escapes shooting attack on motorcade in Tripoli

Libyan interior minister escapes shooting attack on motorcade in Tripoli

NEWS
GUNMEN opened fire on the motorcade of Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha in the capital Tripoli yesterday but he escaped unharmed, a source close to Bashagha said. The assailants fired heavily on Bashagha's convoy as he drove through western Tripoli after visiting the National Oil Corporation and the headquarters of the ministry's law enforcement force, the source said. Bashagha's guards exchanged fire with the attackers before pursuing them, killing one, injuring another and arresting two, according to the source. The attack comes as the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), in which Bashagha serves, prepares to make way for…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
World’s first case of human infection with bird flu

World’s first case of human infection with bird flu

NEWS
POLINA DEVITT and GABRIELLE TETRAULT-FABER RUSSIA has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday. Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but so far only in poultry. Other strains - H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2 - have been known to spread to humans. Russia reported the case of human infection to the WHO…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Ebola vaccinations delayed

Ebola vaccinations delayed

NEWS
THE start of a vaccination campaign against Ebola in southeastern Guinea has been delayed by a day after the vaccines did not arrive in the country yesterday due to bad weather, health authorities said. The start of inoculations in the Nzérékoré region, where an outbreak of the deadly virus was declared last weekend, is now expected on Tuesday, rather than on Monday, the National Agency of Health Safety (ANSS) said on Facebook. A flight carrying the 11,000 vaccine doses was due to arrive on Sunday from Europe, but was unable to land in the capital Conakry, which like much of…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Somali president challenged

Somali president challenged

NEWS
SOMALIA’S  president, whose four-year term expired this month, should not take part in talks aimed at resolving a dispute that has caused a delay in choosing a new head of state, two of Somalia's five regional governments said yesterday. Parliament had been due to make a choice on February 8, but this was delayed because new lawmakers have yet to be picked while opponents of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who is seeking a second term, accuse him of packing his supporters into the regional and national boards who choose the legislators. The delay has stoked tensions in the Horn of…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Landmine kills seven Niger electoral officials

Landmine kills seven Niger electoral officials

NEWS
BOUREIMA BALIMA A vehicle belonging to Niger's electoral commission struck a landmine in the southwest of the country during yesterday's presidential election, killing seven people and seriously wounding three more, a local commission official told Reuters. Harouna Mounkaila, the vice president of the commission's local branch, said the incident took place in the rural commune of Dargol in the Tillabery region. Niger voted yesterday in the second round of a presidential election that is expected to usher in the first democratic transition of power since independence from France in 1960. Ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum is the favourite after leading…
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