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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
100 killed in Ethiopia-Somali border clashes

100 killed in Ethiopia-Somali border clashes

NEWS
BORDER clashes between Ethiopia's Afar and Somali regions have killed at least 100 people, a regional official revealed yesterday, the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June. Around 100 civilians were killed since clashes broke out on Friday and continued through Tuesday, Ahmed Humed, deputy police commissioner for the Afar region, told Reuters by phone. He blamed the violence on an attack by Somali regional forces. Ali Bedel, a spokesman for the Somali region, said 25 people had been killed on Friday and an "unknown number of civilians" died in a subsequent attack by the same forces…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Tanzania’s president reviews COVID-19 stance, lifts media ban

Tanzania’s president reviews COVID-19 stance, lifts media ban

NEWS
TANZANIA’S new president Samia Suluhu Hassan yesterday drew a line under her predecessor's controversial stances on COVID-19 and the media, indicating an apparent change in course for the nation after the death of John Magufuli last month. Hassan announced she was forming a committee to research whether Tanzania should follow the course taken by the rest of the world against the pandemic. "We cannot segregate ourselves like an island, but also we cannot blindly accept what is being brought forward to us (on COVID-19) without carrying out our own investigations and inputs," she told officials at State House in the…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
$1.4-billion in Bashir-era assets returned to govt

$1.4-billion in Bashir-era assets returned to govt

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ and NAFISA ELTAHIR THE group set up to claw back assets from ousted President Omar al-Bashir and his associates said it had retrieved hundreds of millions of dollars in property and cash, but it faces resistance and criticism that it applies "selective justice". The committee's progress is seen as a litmus test for the peaceful transition to democratic rule after the 2019 overthrow of Bashir, who dominated Sudanese politics for 30 years before the military forced him out after a popular uprising. The 77-year-old is currently in jail in the capital Khartoum and faces several judicial cases on…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
U.N. warns Tanzania not to reject people fleeing Mozambique violence

U.N. warns Tanzania not to reject people fleeing Mozambique violence

NEWS
EMMA RUMNEY and DAVID LEWIS  UNITED Nations teams have received "worrying" reports that Tanzania has rejected over 1,000 people seeking refuge from an Islamic State-claimed attack on a town in northern Mozambique, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The March 24 attack on the town of Palma, adjacent to gas developments worth $60 billion, sent the town's residents scattering in all directions, with some fleeing into dense forest while others escaped by boat. Some headed north towards Tanzania, aid workers said. "UNHCR teams... have received worrying reports from displaced populations that over 1,000 people fleeing Mozambique and trying…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Gunmen free more than 1 800 prisoners

Gunmen free more than 1 800 prisoners

NEWS
TIFE OWOLABI  MORE than 1 800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said. Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack in the city of Owerri, but a spokesman for the group denied involvement. The secessionist movement in the southeast is one of several serious security challenges facing President Muhammadu Buhari, including a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast, a spate of school kidnappings in the northwest and piracy in the…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Tribal clashes death toll climbs to 56

Tribal clashes death toll climbs to 56

NEWS
THE death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan's West Darfur has risen to 56, with 132 wounded, the United Nations and a local doctors committee said yesterday. The bloodshed 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. The government declared a state of emergency in the state on Monday after clashes beginning on Saturday in the state capital El Geneina. Sudan's Cabinet said in a statement that the interior minister would be heading to El Geneina soon. According…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
No progress in Ethiopian dam talks

No progress in Ethiopian dam talks

NEWS
EGYPT and Sudan said yesterday that the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Kinshasa have ended with no progress made. Delegations from the three countries were meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo hoping to break a deadlock in negotiations over a project Ethiopia says is key to its economic development and power generation. Egypt fears the dam will imperil its supplies of Nile water, while Sudan is concerned about the dam's safety and water flows through its own dams and water stations. Before the meetings began, Egypt had said they represented…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
President Ouattara keeps in the family

President Ouattara keeps in the family

NEWS
LOUCOUMANE COULIBALY  IVORY Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his younger brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as minister of defence, part of a slate of new appointments announced on Tuesday. The new defence minister will have to contend with Islamist violence spilling over from Burkina Faso in the north, and continue reforms that have calmed a series of army mutinies that threatened stability in the world's top cocoa-producing nation. Three soldiers were killed when dozens of militants attacked two military posts last week. Tene Birahima Ouattara was named interim defence minister in March after the death of Hamed Bakayoko, who had…
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Jul
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma will be treated fairly, could be out in 4 months

Zuma will be treated fairly, could be out in 4 months

NEWS
FORMER South African president Jacob Zuma, who has started his 15-month prison term at the Escourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal, will be treated fairly, with dignity and could be free in four months, government has revealed. SA Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola, who saw Zuma in his hospital cell where he kept in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, said: “We want to assure all South Africans that former president Zuma will be afforded dignity throughout his term of incarceration." Lamola said Zuma, who will stay in isolation for two weeks, was in good spirits. “I have seen him. He…
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Jul
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria approves $2.4 billion to fight violence, fund vaccines

Nigeria approves $2.4 billion to fight violence, fund vaccines

NEWS
CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA’S parliament has passed a 983 billion naira ($2.4 billion) supplementary budget to address rising insecurity in the country and fund COVID-19 vaccines. Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, is grappling with mass abductions at schools, kidnappings for ransom, conflict between herdsmen and farmers, armed robberies and various insurgencies in the north of the country. Senate leader Ahmad Lawan said parliament should be vigilant in monitoring how the extra funds will be used, in a country that has struggled for decades with corruption. "It is very important that we have a review of the application of these funds before…
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