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Jul
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Zambia’s Kaunda buried at offical site despite son’s challenge

Zambia’s Kaunda buried at offical site despite son’s challenge

NEWS
CHRIS MFULA  ZAMBIA’S founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, was laid to rest at the country's presidential burial site yesterday after the High Court dismissed a challenge by one of his sons that this would be against his wishes. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the southern African nation won its independence from Britain, until his defeat in an election in 1991. He died on June 17 in a military hospital in Lusaka. Kaunda's son Kaweche on Tuesday challenged in court the government's plan to bury his father's remains at Embassy Park, where other former heads of state are buried and which…
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Jul
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Kidnappers demand food for children seized in Nigeria school raid

Kidnappers demand food for children seized in Nigeria school raid

NEWS
KIDNAPPERS who abducted more than 100 students from a boarding school in Nigeria's Kaduna state warned that the children could starve unless parents supply them with food, parents and the head of the Kaduna Baptist conference have. The Baptist official said about 125 students are missing, while at least 28 were reunited with their families, after the overnight raid on the Bethel Baptist High School early this week, the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria. Parents of those missing told Reuters that the kidnappers promised the children would be safe if parents delivered rice, beans, palm oil,…
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Jul
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia says aid flights to Tigray allowed, but none has yet left the capital

Ethiopia says aid flights to Tigray allowed, but none has yet left the capital

NEWS
ETHIOPIA has allowed humanitarian flights to its northern Tigray region, amid concerns that aid is not reaching people facing famine, but the civil aviation head said no such flights had yet left the capital. Ethiopia's government has been battling the Tigray People's Liberation Front since November and thousands of civilians and an unknown number of combatants have since been killed. Last week, government forces said they had withdrawn from the Tigray capital of Mekelle, but the TPLF said its forces seized the city, a major shift in the conflict. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government declared a unilateral humanitarian ceasefire and…
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Apr
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma’s middle finger to Chief Justice, highest court

Zuma’s middle finger to Chief Justice, highest court

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A defiant Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, has shown the proverbial middle finger to the country’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and rejected, as a sham and a political gimmick, a directive that he must suggest a suitable punishment in the case he is found guilty of contempt of the Constitutional Court.  Mogoeng issued the directive to Zuma who faces charges of failing to appear before the Zondo judicial commission into state capture and for defying the Constitutional Court.The chief justice directed Zuma to file an affidavit of no longer than 15 pages. Zuma responded…
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Jul
08
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Rules for intersex athletes similar to apartheid’

‘Rules for intersex athletes similar to apartheid’

NEWS
WORLD Athletics is discriminating against women with intersex variations by requiring them to reduce high testosterone levels to participate in the female category and the rules are similar to apartheid, a Cameroon minister-counsellor has said. Come Damien Georges Awoumou, minister-counsellor at the Cameroon mission to the United Nations made the comments on behalf of the African group of countries at a special debate on sports and human rights held at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Namibian athletes Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi were withdrawn last week from the 400m event at the Olympic Games after tests revealed their…
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Jul
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Kidnaps could create lost generation of students

Kidnaps could create lost generation of students

NEWS
LIBBY GEORGE and ABRAHAM ACHIRGA Yusuf Lado had not yet learned to read or write when his school closed for fear of attacks by armed gangs, which have been snatching students across northwest Nigeria in hopes of lucrative ransom payouts. The 7-year-old has now set aside his dream of becoming a doctor and is training to be a welder, despite his slight build. "I hope to perfect this work I'm learning and be as good as my boss," he told Reuters late last month at his new workplace on the outskirts of the Kaduna state capital. Humanitarian agencies warn that…
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Jul
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Ghana opposition supporters march

Ghana opposition supporters march

NEWS
CHRISTIAN AKORLIE HUNDREDS of opposition supporters have marched through the streets of Ghana's capital Accra, demonstrating against what they described as rising insecurity and lawlessness since President Nana Akufo-Addo came to power in 2017. Wearing mostly red or black, the youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) danced through the streets with signs such as "You tweeted for George Floyd... Ghanaians have died, speak up!". Accompanied by the honking of motorcycles and music blasting from pick-up trucks, the group delivered a petition to the offices of the president and the speaker of parliament. The marchers pointed to a string…
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Jul
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Mali seeks warrant for ex-President’s son

Mali seeks warrant for ex-President’s son

NEWS
MALIAN authorities have sought an international arrest warrant for the son of ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, two legal sources in Mali have said, in a case linked to the disappearance of a journalist in 2016. Interpol, which declined to comment, can issue a so-called red notice on behalf of member countries that asks police worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a wanted person for extradition, surrender or similar legal action. A source at a court in Bamako with direct knowledge of the case and a source at the Court of Appeal said the authorities had asked for an international…
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Apr
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Compaore charged with Sankara’s murder

Compaore charged with Sankara’s murder

NEWS
A Burkina Faso court charged former President Blaise Compaore in absentia yesterday in connection with the 1987 murder of then-President Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa's post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary often called "Africa's Che Guevara", was assassinated during a coup led by his former friend Compaore. Compaore went on to rule Burkina Faso for 27 years before being ousted in a 2014 uprising and fleeing to Ivory Coast, where he is believed still to live. He has previously denied any involvement in Sankara's death. A military tribunal yesterday charged Compaore with complicity in…
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Jul
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia has resumed filling of giant dam

Ethiopia has resumed filling of giant dam

NEWS
EGYPT’S irrigation minister says he has received official notice from Ethiopia that it had begun filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), for a second year. Egypt has informed Ethiopia of its categorical rejection of the measure, which it regards as a threat to regional stability, Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Aty said in a statement. Ethiopia says the dam on its Blue Nile is crucial to its economic development and providing power to its population. Egypt views the dam as a grave threat to its Nile water supplies, on which it is almost…
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