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Apr
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt targets suspected killers’ cell

Egypt targets suspected killers’ cell

NEWS
EGYPTIAN security forces have shot dead three suspected Islamist militants accused of targeting Coptic Christians and involvement in the execution-style killing of a 62-year-old man in North Sinai, the interior ministry said yesterday. The suspected militants died in an exchange of fire and were part of a cell that was plotting to attack Copts, their property and places of worship, as well as the security forces, the ministry said in a statement. It did not say when the clash took place. An Islamist insurgency spread in the north of the Sinai Peninsula after Egypt's military overthrew Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed…
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Apr
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Rwanda blames France for enabling 1994 genocide

Rwanda blames France for enabling 1994 genocide

NEWS
CLEMENT UWIRIGIYIMANA FRANCE was aware that a genocide was being prepared in Rwanda ahead of the 1994 killings and the French government bore a significant responsibility for enabling it, the Rwandan government said in a report published yesterday. Between April and July of 1994, some 800 000 people were slaughtered, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority but also some Hutus. "The message of the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister today is a key step in getting our two countries closer," a French presidential advisor told reporters on Monday in response to the Rwandan report. Ever since the genocide, critics of France's…
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Apr
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Namibian court rules against gay couple

Namibian court rules against gay couple

NEWS
NAMIBIA'S High Court on Monday ruled against a gay couple battling to obtain travel documents for their twin daughters, born to a surrogate in South Africa after authorities refused to do so on the basis the infants were not citizens. Namibian Phillip Luhl and his Mexican husband Guillermo Delgado had already been fighting for citizenship for their two-year-old son when the twins, born in March, were refused the documents required to enter Namibia. Namibian authorities say Luhl must prove a genetic link to the children. In an urgent application to the court, the fathers asked the judge to compel the home…
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Apr
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Chad army beats back rebels advancing towards capital

Chad army beats back rebels advancing towards capital

NEWS
MAHAMAT RAMADANE  CHAD’S army said yesterday it had beaten back a column of insurgents, claiming to have halted a rebel advance towards the capital N'Djamena as the country awaits the final results of a presidential election last week. The rebel group Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), based in Chad's northern neighbour Libya, has made inroads south since it attacked a border post on election day and called for an end to President Idriss Deby's 30-year rule. Military spokesman Azem Bermendao Agouna told Reuters army troops had killed more than 300 insurgents and captured 150 in the battle…
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Jul
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Ramaphosa did not mislead to Parliament – Court

Ramaphosa did not mislead to Parliament – Court

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER PUBLIC Protector Advocate Busi Mkhwebane was wrong on the facts and in the law when she found that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa wilfully misled parliament about a R500 000 donation for his campaign as ANC president, the Constitutional Court has found. In a majority judgment delivered by Judge Chris Japhta, the court found that there was no evidence that Ramaphosa had personally benefited from the donation made to his campaign by Bosasa, the company which has changed its name to African Global Operations (AGO). "The truth which the Public Protector was seeking was whether the President…
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Jul
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Politician killed in Nigeria, security crisis worsens

Politician killed in Nigeria, security crisis worsens

NEWS
A Nigerian politician was killed by bandits while on the road between two northern cities, one of his colleagues has said, while a state governor's convoy came under fire in a separate incident that left three police officers injured. The attacks highlighted a breakdown of law and order across northwestern Nigeria, where armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom have become so frequent that many people are terrified of being on the road. Ahmad Ahmad, a member of the state house of assembly in northwestern Zamfara state, was killed in a rural area on Tuesday evening as he was driving from…
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Jul
02
2021
By The African Mirror
10 child traffickers jailed in Ivory Coast

10 child traffickers jailed in Ivory Coast

NEWS
ANGE ABOA  A court in Ivory Coast has sentenced 10 people found guilty of child trafficking to 10 years in jail, part of an effort to clamp down on organised networks that smuggle children to work in cocoa plantations. Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, and the companies that buy its cocoa are facing international pressure to tackle child labour and put measures in place to guarantee sustainable farming. The group of suspects, which included transporters and smugglers, all came from Ivory Coast's northern neighbour Burkina Faso, prosecutors said during the trial in Bouna, a town near the two…
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Jul
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Tigray as no longer ‘centre’ of conflict

Tigray as no longer ‘centre’ of conflict

NEWS
DAWIT ENDESHAW ETHIOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed acknowledged government troops had left Tigray's regional capital Mekelle after months of fighting, saying it was because the city was no longer the "centre of gravity for conflicts". Another government figure said the troops could return in weeks if needed - the first statements by federal officials since Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces took the city this week in a major turn of events in the conflict. But a spokesman for the TPLF called Abiy's comments a "lie", saying that government troops lost and were forced to leave Mekelle. He also said…
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Jul
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Eskom seeks $10 billion for shift from coal

Eskom seeks $10 billion for shift from coal

NEWS
ALEXANDER WINNING  SOUTH AFRICAN state power utility Eskom, Africa's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is pitching a $10 billion plan to global lenders that would see it shut the vast majority of its coal-fired plants by 2050 and embrace renewable energy. Discussions have already started with development finance institutions like the World Bank and the African Development Bank, a senior Eskom official told Reuters. "It's a lot of money, so what we are putting on the table is to say to funders: South Africa can offer you the biggest point source of carbon emissions reduction in the world," said Mandy Rambharos,…
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Jul
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Ex-Sudan ruling party members arrested

Ex-Sudan ruling party members arrested

NEWS
SUDANESE authorities said they arrested scores of members of the former ruling party, accusing them of plotting "acts of destruction", as young people took to the streets in separate pro-democracy protests in the capital. Police detained at least 200 members of the National Congress Party (NCP), officials said, the 32nd anniversary of the coup that brought that party's former leader, ex-President Omar al-Bashir, to power. Bashir was in turn ousted in 2019 and replaced by a shaky military-civilian transitional government that has promised to hold elections and has regularly accused NCP loyalists of trying to undermine its work and disrupt…
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