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Apr
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Eritrean soldiers kill nine civilians in Tigray

Eritrean soldiers kill nine civilians in Tigray

NEWS
ERITREAN soldiers have opened fire in an Ethiopian town, killing at least nine civilians and wounding more than a dozen others, a local government official told Reuters. Berhane Gebretsadik, an administrator for Ethiopia's federally appointed interim Tigray government, said on Wednesday that Ethiopian National Defence forces had intervened to repel the attack in the town of Adwa. "It was the Eritrean soldiers who killed innocent people," he said. "If it wasn't for the National Defence who intervened and saved them (residents), they would have continued killing more people," he said, referring to Ethiopia's national army. The attack shows continued Eritrean…
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Apr
16
2021
By The African Mirror
At least one killed in anti-UN protest in DRC

At least one killed in anti-UN protest in DRC

NEWS
AT least one person was killed by security forces yesterday during protests against United Nations peacekeepers in Oicha, a town in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the town's mayor said. Residents in towns in Congo's eastern region have staged several protests since last week over killings by militias and armed groups, and anger over what they say is the U.N. mission's inability to prevent the wave of civilian killings. Youths in Oicha, a town around 390 km (242 miles) north of the eastern provincial capital of Goma, barricaded the main highway early on Thursday as part…
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Jun
27
2021
By The African Mirror
New harsh rules: SA bans booze, public gatherings

New harsh rules: SA bans booze, public gatherings

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER TWELVE days after introducing stricter anti-COVID-19 measures, South Africa has made them even tougher, banning the sale of alcohol, public gatherings and keeping pupils and university students from contact classes. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, in a special address to the nation - “a family meeting” - said the country would move into Lockdown Level Four and unveiled tougher rules to help stem the increasing number of infections, hospitalisations and deaths brought on by the third wave. These are the measures announced by Ramaphosa and will be in force until July 11: All gatherings - political, cultural…
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Jun
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Operation Dudula pushes ahead with hateful politics

Operation Dudula pushes ahead with hateful politics

NEWS
JAN BORNMAN ON the 45th anniversary of the June 16 uprising in Soweto, dozens of people armed with sjamboks and sticks met in Diepkloof, Soweto, under the banner of Operation Dudula. A poster about it had been circulating for weeks online, warning “We will be removing all illegal foreign nationals by force!!!” Similar posters doing the rounds contained even more inflammatory language and images.  Flyers had also been hand-delivered to migrant-owned shops in the weeks leading up to Youth Day, which commemorates those who died at the hands of the oppressive apartheid forces on 16 June 1976 while protesting against…
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Jun
28
2021
By The African Mirror
SA Deputy President in Russia

SA Deputy President in Russia

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER DAVID Mabuza, the South African Deputy President, has flown to Russia for specialised treatment for an undisclosed illness, his office has announced. In a statement, his office said Mabuza, who had requested and was granted leave by President Cyril Ramaphosa.   “During this time, the Deputy President will undertake a visit to the Russian Federation for a scheduled medical consultation. This consultation is a follow-up to previous medical consultations that the Deputy President received from the Russian Federation,” the office said in a statement. The office said the Deputy President will continue with the responsibilities that have been…
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Apr
15
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 20 Niger preschool children die in school blaze

At least 20 Niger preschool children die in school blaze

NEWS
AT least 20 nursery school children have died in Niger in a fire that trapped them in straw-hut classrooms in a school in a poor neighbourhood of the west African nation's capital, government officials said. "There were 20 deaths, most of them young children," said the head of Niger's fire service, Colonel Bako Boubacar. He said the origin of the fire in Niamey was unknown. An official of a Niger's teachers union said the school in the popular Pays Bas neighbourhood had around 800 students, including children in the nursery section. "The fire apparently started around the school gate. Without…
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Apr
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Ex-Ugandan warlord faces 20 years in jail

Ex-Ugandan warlord faces 20 years in jail

NEWS
PROSECUTORS yesterday asked the International Criminal Court to sentence a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to at least 20 years in prison. Dominic Ongwen, who was arrested in 2015, was convicted in February of dozens of crimes including rape, sexual enslavement, child abductions, torture and murder. In a special hearing to discuss Ongwen's punishment, prosecutors dismissed defence calls for a sentence of no more than 10 years and their argument that Ongwen is a victim because he was himself abducted as a child to fight in the LRA. Ongwen pleaded not…
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Apr
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia’s president signs law extending his term, 15 killed in attack

Somalia’s president signs law extending his term, 15 killed in attack

NEWS
SOMALIA’S president has signed a disputed law extending his mandate for two years, the state news agency reported, setting the Horn of Africa nation on a collision course with donors who strongly oppose the move. Somalia, with only limited central government since 1991, is trying to rebuild with international help but the path back to stability has been obstructed by a political crisis caused by a failure to hold elections that were due in February. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's four-year term expired in February and his successor was meant to be chosen by a new crop of legislators. Uncertainty deepened…
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Apr
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Twenty killed in road accident in Egypt

Twenty killed in road accident in Egypt

NEWS
TWENTY people were killed and three injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on a desert highway in Upper Egypt, the health ministry has disclosed. The bus from Cairo collided with a truck loaded with cement, which was stopping due to a malfunction, in the province of Assiut, about 370 km south of the capital, the provincial governor's office said in a statement. The bus was burned out within minutes, and the bodies and the injured were removed from it with difficulty, it added. Thirty-six ambulances rushed to the scene, the health ministry said. Reckless driving and…
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