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Jul
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Russia sends 600 instructors to the CAR

Russia sends 600 instructors to the CAR

NEWS
RUSSIA recently sent a group of 600 military instructors to the Central African Republic to train the army, police, and national gendarmerie, Russia's foreign ministry said has announced. Moscow is in the spotlight after a United Nations report, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, said Russian military instructors and local troops had targeted civilians with excessive force, indiscriminate killings, occupation of schools and large-scale looting. The Kremlin has said it is a lie that Russian instructors had taken part in killings or robberies. Russia notified the United Nations Security Council of the deployment of the 600 instructors, Russia's foreign ministry told…
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Apr
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Top SA judge guilty of misconduct

Top SA judge guilty of misconduct

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THIRTEEN years after the complaint was laid against him, Western Cape Judge President John Hlope has been found guilty of trying to influence two judges in the Constitutional Court in rule in favour of then-President Jacob Zuma. Hlophe’s actions were found by the Judicial Conduct Tribunal to constitute gross misconduct by two judges and an attorney, who presided over the hearing. The judges are Judge Joop Labuschagne, Judge Tati Makgoka  and Nishani Pather, a practising attorney. In a statement, the Tribunal said unanimous that: Judge President Hlophe’s conduct breached the provision of Section 165 of the Constitution…
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Jul
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia denies blocking aid to Tigray

Ethiopia denies blocking aid to Tigray

NEWS
DAVID ENDESHAW ETHIOPIA has denied blocking humanitarian aid to its northern Tigray region where hundreds of thousands face starvation, and said it was rebuilding infrastructure amid accusations it is using hunger as a weapon. The Tigray People's Liberation Front, provincial authorities which Ethiopian forces and troops from neighbouring Eritrea had driven out last year, returned to regional capital Mekelle this week to cheering crowds, in a dramatic reversal of eight months of war. The Ethiopian government declared a unilateral ceasefire which the TPLF dismissed as a joke. There are reports of continued clashes in some places as pressure builds internationally…
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Apr
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Fighting sex attacks and stereotypes, Egyptian style

Fighting sex attacks and stereotypes, Egyptian style

NEWS
MENNA A. FAROUK  FOUR young Egyptian women, wearing headscarves, leggings and boxing gloves, punch and kick each other, encouraged by their female coach Samah Ahmed - founder of the Monsters Academy. Ahmed, known to everyone as Coach Samah, started learning Thai boxing, or Muay Thai, five years ago after being sexually harassed, and now teaches the martial art to about 40 people, mostly women and girls, at her own training camp. "Muay Thai turns every part of your body into a weapon: your elbows, your knees, your fists and even your chin," Ahmed told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from her…
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Jul
03
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Difficult’ Libya talks aimed at preparing elections miss deadline

‘Difficult’ Libya talks aimed at preparing elections miss deadline

NEWS
U.N.-backed talks aimed at paving the way for elections in Libya in December missed a deadline and extended into a fifth day on Friday with delegates struggling to agree. The meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum near Geneva was due to establish the constitutional basis for presidential and parliamentary elections by July 1. But delegates and U.N. officials said they could not agree among themselves on several proposals circulating, prompting organisers to extend the talks originally planned to last four days. The elections would be a key part of international efforts to bring stability to Libya, which has been…
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Apr
11
2021
By The African Mirror
2 killed during anti-U.N. protests in DRC

2 killed during anti-U.N. protests in DRC

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE AT least two people were killed during violent protests on Friday against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said. Troops attached to the U.N. mission, known as MONUSCO, killed one person during a protest in the rural area of Oicha, its mayor Nicolas Kikuku told Reuters. "They (the protesters) set fire to two bridges that lead to the (peacekeepers') base," Kikuku said. "The MONUSCO peacekeepers did not accept that and opened fire directly on the demonstrators." Rosette Kavula, the deputy administrator of Beni territory, where Oicha is located, and…
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Jul
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Leaders bid farewell to “KK”

Leaders bid farewell to “KK”

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER WITH white handkerchiefs, a 21 gun salute, a military flypast, song and praise, Zambia today bid farewell to its famous son, Kenneth Kaunda, its founding president who passed away at 96. Southern African heads of states and government today paid glowing tributes to Kaunda under whose leadership Zambia played a key role in the liberation of their countries. Kaunda led Zambia to independence from British colonial rule in 1964 and backed freedom movements that overcame colonial settlers and brought majority rule to Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Former President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, speaking on…
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Apr
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Djibouti’s President wins 5th term

Djibouti’s President wins 5th term

NEWS
DJIBOUTI's President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fifth five-year term yesterday after an election boycotted by most of the opposition, securing over 97% of the votes cast, according to official data from the Interior Ministry. Friday's vote pitted only one challenger against the incumbent - relative newcomer Zakaria Ismail Farah. The Interior Ministry data showed that he came second with 2.48% of the 177,391 votes cast. Some 5,447 ballots were declared invalid. Farah said the results were "far from reality". "This outcome is undoubtedly the result of ballot-box stuffing, (which) occurred in the absence of my delegates," he told Reuters,…
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Jul
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Meet Nigeria’s Stevie Wonder

Meet Nigeria’s Stevie Wonder

NEWS
DORCAS BELLO The singing from inside the house could be from a sound system. "Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday," the last word strung out as Stevie Wonder does in his 1980's hit by the same name. However, inside this home in Plateau State is not a sound system but rather a young boy, belting out the theme and playing the song accompaniment on a keyboard. The house in Gada Biyu settlement in Jos is the home of Tinafi Jonathan, who at 11, has become a must-have at music concerts across the region. This would not…
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Apr
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Turkish, Egyptian ministers in talks

Turkish, Egyptian ministers in talks

NEWS
THE foreign ministers of Turkey and Egypt spoke by phone yesterday, the Turkish foreign ministry said, their first direct contact since a push by Ankara to improve strained ties between the regional powerhouses. The two ministers exchanged good wishes over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which starts next week, the ministry added, but gave no further details. Last month, Turkey said it had resumed diplomatic contacts with Egypt and wanted to improve cooperation after years of tensions since the Egyptian army toppled a Muslim Brotherhood president close to President Tayyip Erdogan in 2013. "Our Minister Mr Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke…
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