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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
50 dead, 132 injured in Sudanese city of El Geneina

50 dead, 132 injured in Sudanese city of El Geneina

NEWS
SUDAN’S government has declared a state of emergency in West Darfur state after at least 50 people were killed and 132 injured in three days of tribal clashes in its capital El Geneina, according to the United Nations. The incident is the latest in a resurgence of violence in the Darfur region since the signing of a peace agreement late last year and the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers. In January, at least 129 people were killed and 108,000 people remain displaced after similar clashes in El Geneina between members of the Masalit tribe and Arab tribes. Military reinforcements that had…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
African migrants desert official camp in Spain

African migrants desert official camp in Spain

NEWS
BORJA SUAREZ DOZENS of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Spain's Canary Islands, leaving an official, much larger camp where they said they had received poor food, scant medical attention and did not have enough showers. In the face of soaring levels of migration from Africa, authorities on the Canaries have resorted to housing thousands in converted former military facilities. More than 1,500 have been living in the Las Raices camp, a former barracks near the city of La Laguna on Tenerife for the last two months. "The camp is really bad," said a Senegalese migrant who gave…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Mozambique army retakes Palma

Mozambique army retakes Palma

NEWS
THE town in northern Mozambique that was attacked by Islamic State-linked insurgents in late March is now secure after the military killed a "significant number" of militants and cleared one final area, an army spokesman said. "We have completed the clearing (of the town). It was the only sensitive area that we needed to clear. ... It is completely safe," spokesman Chongo Vigidal said, in comments broadcast by state TV channel TVM late on Sunday. Insurgents on March 24 attacked the coastal town of Palma, near natural gas projects worth $60 billion that are meant to transform Mozambique's economy. Clashes…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Jail time for transgender women in Cameroon extended after trial delay

Jail time for transgender women in Cameroon extended after trial delay

NEWS
TWO transgender women facing charges of "attempted homosexuality" in a high profile case in Cameroon will spend more than two months behind bars without trial after a judge postponed their hearing again yesterday. Shakiro, a local media celebrity and cosmetician with 100,000 followers on Facebook, was arrested along with Patricia on February 8 for wearing women's clothes while eating in a restaurant. They have been in New Bell Prison in the country's largest city Douala since February 10. They also face charges of public indecency and not carrying identification. They have pleaded not guilty. Shakiro's legal name is Loic Njeukam,…
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Jul
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia conflict heats up

Ethiopia conflict heats up

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW  ETHIOPIA’S war in the northern region of Tigray looked set to intensify as the prime minister signalled the end of a government ceasefire and the neighbouring Amhara region said it would go on the offensive against Tigrayan forces. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which has recaptured most of its home region in the past three weeks after an abrupt reversal in an eight-month war, has vowed to retake western Tigray, an expanse of fertile territory controlled by Amhara forces who seized it during the conflict. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed abruptly pulled central government troops out of most…
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Jul
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Grandmothers combat looting, crime in SA

Grandmothers combat looting, crime in SA

NEWS
KIM HARRISBERG AS looters ran through the streets of Johannesburg, South African grandmother Evelyne turned off her lights, stood by her window and carefully lifted her curtain, surveying the chaos as gunshots and screams filled the night air. The 72-year-old was guarding her property, but she was also gathering information to share with her neighbourhood watch team, made up of a few male patrollers and about a dozen grandmothers in the inner city's Bertrams neighbourhood. "I was scared to go outside, but I heard that there were gunshots coming from a nearby shop and groups of men running through the…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Prayer vigil called for rapper DMX outside New York hospital

Prayer vigil called for rapper DMX outside New York hospital

NEWS
FANS of rapper DMX held a prayer vigil outside a suburban New York hospital just days after reports the musician and actor suffered a heart attack during a drug overdose. "Prayer for DMX" was held in front of White Plains Hospital, said supporters using the hashtag #PrayerForDMX. A hospital spokeswoman declined to release his condition or even confirm to Reuters that DMX, 50, who was born Earl Simmons, was a patient there, citing privacy laws. His family, in a statement widely reported in celebrity media, said he was rushed on Friday, April 2, to the facility roughly 30 miles (48…
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Jul
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Algeria leader pardons protest movement members

Algeria leader pardons protest movement members

NEWS
ALGERIAN President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the release of 101 members of a protest movement that forced his predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down, the presidency said. Elected in December 2019, Tebboune has vowed to carry out economic and political reforms and urged the opposition to opt for dialogue to maintain stability. Algerians late last year voted a new constitution to give the prime minister and parliament a greater role, despite a low voter turnout after a boycott by a large part of the opposition. Mass protests broke out in February 2019 demanding reforms and the departure of the entire…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Pemba is home to people fleeing Palma

Pemba is home to people fleeing Palma

NEWS
EMIDIO JOZINE PETER N'Guila used to have no trouble supporting his family of three on his consultant's salary. But since Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked a northern Mozambique gas hub town last month, he has seven more mouths to feed. Hundreds of people fleeing ongoing hostilities in Palma have been pouring into Pemba, a port city around 250 km (155 miles) to the south already bursting with those displaced by previous rounds of Islamist violence and a deadly cyclone in 2019. Around 90% of those arriving in Pemba are taken in by relatives, while others cram into schools, hotels, makeshift tented…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
US, Sudan discuss peace process

US, Sudan discuss peace process

NEWS
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke yesterday with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on efforts to advance the peace process and promote political reforms, the State Department said in a statement. The two also discussed negotiations related to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the need to lower tensions between Sudan and Ethiopia, according to the statement.
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