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Apr
17
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 40 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

At least 40 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

NEWS
AT least 40 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, United Nations and Tunisian officials said on Friday. The Tunisian costguard had so far recovered 21 bodies, all African migrants, and rescued three people, Tunisian officials said. The dead included at least one child. "The boat sank during a trip that started late on Thursday from Sfax... So far, the coastguard has recovered 21 bodies and the search is still continuing," Mouard Mechri, director of Tunisia's civil protection service, told Reuters. The coastline near the port city of Sfax has become…
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Apr
17
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. imposes visa curbs on Ugandan election officials

U.S. imposes visa curbs on Ugandan election officials

NEWS
THE United States is imposing visa bans on Ugandan government officials accused of human rights violation and repressive acts that tainted the January election, putting pressure on longtime Western ally President Yoweri Museveni. The visa restrictions will apply to "those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic process" during the January 14 election and its preparations, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. "There are consequences for interfering in the democratic process," Blinken wrote later on Twitter. The statement did not name those targeted. The Ugandan government rejected the allegations and accused the United…
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Apr
17
2021
By The African Mirror
My daughter was not suicidal – Nelli Tembe’s dad

My daughter was not suicidal – Nelli Tembe’s dad

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER MOSES Tembe, the father of Anele Nelli Tembe, who fell to her death from the 10th floor of Cape Town hotel, said she was not suicidal. Nelli, 22, was engaged to rap star AKA, real name Kiernan Forbes, the last person to see her alive. Nellie was laid to rest in Durban yesterday. In a letter read at her emotional, yet elegant funeral, Tembe said: “I hereby categorically state that Anele was neither suicidal nor did she commit suicide.” Tembe, in a letter read by businessman Sandile Zungu on his behalf, said South Africans had to deal,…
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Apr
17
2021
By The African Mirror
South African man shot dead in Hawaii

South African man shot dead in Hawaii

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A South African man has been shot and killed by police in Hawaii.. Lindani Myeni, a rugby player, who was living in Hawaii with his wife Lindsay and two children, was shot several times after a scuffle at his home in Nuuanu.  According to the Honolulu Police Department (HPD), Myeni was allegedly shot after a scuffle with three police officers.  HPD chief Susan Ballard told local media that Myeni punched an officer after he was ordered to lie down. “The second officer tried to intervene and the third officer used a taser. The first officer then fired…
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Apr
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Up to 65 000 people on run in Nigeria

Up to 65 000 people on run in Nigeria

NEWS
UP to 65,000 people in northeastern Nigeria have fled their homes after an assault by armed groups on a border town, while attacks that appear to be targeted have forced a temporary halt to aid operations, U.N. agencies said. Local officials and a resident said that at least eight people had been killed in the attack on Damasak by suspected Islamists and that hundreds had fled across the border to Niger, a few kilometres away. "Following the latest attack on Wednesday 14 April, the third in just seven days, up to 80 per cent of the town's population -- which…
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Jun
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Uganda charges two over attempt to kill minister

Uganda charges two over attempt to kill minister

NEWS
TWO suspects were charged with murder and attempted murder yesterday over an assassination attempt on a Ugandan government minister in which the minister was wounded and his daughter and driver were killed. Sserubula Hussein Ismael and Nyanzi Yusuf Siraji "attempted unlawfully to cause the death" of General Katumba Wamala, Uganda's works and transport minister, the charge sheet showed. Early on June 1, masked gunmen on motorcycles intercepted Katumba as he travelled through Kisaasi, a suburb of the capital Kampala. They sprayed his vehicle with bullets, killing his daughter and driver but aborted the attack when Katumba's bodyguard shielded him and…
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Apr
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Same-sex couple fight for children’s citizenship

Same-sex couple fight for children’s citizenship

NEWS
KIRTHANA PILLAY and SISIPHO SKWEYIYA WHEN Namibian Phillip Lühl and his Mexican husband Guillermo Delgado decided to start a family, they did not realise how difficult it would be. The same-sex couple is battling to obtain Namibian citizenship for their 2-year-old son, while their one-month-old twin daughters are stuck in South Africa because Namibian authorities want Lühl to show genetic proof he is the father before providing them with travel documents. Lühl said that while the couple - married in South Africa - never experienced any discrimination in Namibia, their predicament began after their son was born in 2019 via…
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Jun
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Tigray’s former rulers back in power

Tigray’s former rulers back in power

NEWS
GIULIA PARAVICINI, KATHERINE HOURELD and DAWIT ENDESHAW THE former rulers of Ethiopia's Tigray region has announced they were back in control of the regional capital Mekelle after nearly eight months of fighting, and the government which ousted them declared a unilateral ceasefire with immediate effect. Residents in downtown Mekelle reported seeing rebel troops in the city for the first time since they were driven out by government forces in November, and several described scenes of jubilation in the streets. The developments marked a dramatic turn in a conflict that has killed thousands of people, displaced more than 2 million and…
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Jun
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Double blasts: DRC blames Islamist militia

Double blasts: DRC blames Islamist militia

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo's army said an Islamist militia which claims links to Islamic State (IS) was responsible for two blasts in the eastern city of Beni, as the mayor closed local schools, churches and markets in a tightening of security. The army said Sunday's attacks bore the signature of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has used improvised explosive devices in the past. No one was killed in the two incidents apart from the suspected bomber in the second blast, after an explosive device he was carrying went off at a busy intersection. Another explosive device…
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Jun
29
2021
By The African Mirror
VBS scandal: Three ex-city bosses out on bail

VBS scandal: Three ex-city bosses out on bail

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THREE former municipal bosses, who took ratepayers millions and invested them in the now-defunct VBS Bank have appeared in court after they were arrested by The Hawks, South Africa’s elite crime-fighting unit. The trio was released on bail of R50 000 each and ordered to appear in court on October 22. The three are among the 20 municipal bosses who took R2.7-billion meant for services to ratepayers and deposited it at the VBS Bank in contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act. The three are Moroashike Mokoena (60), a  former Municipal Manager in West Rand District Municipality,…
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