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Jun
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisia: Protests against police spreads

Tunisia: Protests against police spreads

NEWS
PROTESTS that erupted more than a week against police abuse in Sejoumi neighbourhood of Tunisia's capital spread to other poor neighbourhoods late yesterday. The protesters gathered in Ettadhamen and Intilaka neighborhoods, blocked roads, burned tires and threw stones at police, as officers chased demonstrators and unleashed tear gas, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Protests escalated last week after a video circulated online showed police stripping and beating a young man, triggering widespread anger among the public. On Tuesday, hundreds gathered in Sijoumi, raising slogans against the government and calling on officials to stop police abuse and punish those…
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Jun
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigerian policeman killed, 80 students abducted

Nigerian policeman killed, 80 students abducted

NEWS
GUNMEN have killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher said. The attack is the third mass kidnapping in three weeks in northwest Nigeria, which have authorities have attributed to armed bandits seeking ransom payments. Usman Aliyu, a teacher at the school, said the gunmen took more than 80 students, most of them girls. "They killed one of the (police officers), broke through the gate and went straight to the students' classes," he told Reuters. Kebbi State police spokesman Nafiu Abubakar,…
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Jun
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Eritrean trafficker given life sentence in Ethiopia

Eritrean trafficker given life sentence in Ethiopia

NEWS
LEUL ESTIFANOS AN Eritrean trafficker who starved and tortured his victims to death was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Ethiopia yesterday, after escaping custody four months ago. Kidane Zekarias held thousands of African refugees and migrants, headed for Europe, in warehouses in Libya and extorted thousands of dollars from them and their families, according to charges seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The notorious smuggler was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, in 2020, after one of his Ethiopian victims, Fuad Bedru, recognised him on the street and alerted the police. "I am happy about the seriousness…
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May
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Malian woman gives birth to nine babies

Malian woman gives birth to nine babies

NEWS
A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies yesterday - two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb - joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, has fascinated the West African nation and attracted the attention of its leaders. When doctors in March said Cisse needed specialist care, authorities flew her to Morocco, where she gave birth. "The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well," Mali's health minister, Fanta Siby, said in a statement. Cisse was expected to give birth to seven babies, according to…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Mabuyakhulu is the 1st ANC member to step aside

Mabuyakhulu is the 1st ANC member to step aside

NEWS
MIKE Mabuyakhulu has become the first and most senior ANC member to withdraw from his duties because he has been charged with corruption.  Mabuyakhulu, the deputy chairperson of the ANC in the KwaZulu-Natal province, stepped aside hours after the national working committee of the ANC, reaffirmed a decision by the party’s national executive committee that those facing serious charges should stand down from their political and official positions. Those who do not step aside voluntarily face suspension. Mabuyakhulu faces charges over R26-million spent by the KwaZulu-Natal government on the North Sea Jazz Festival which never took place. The charges relate…
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May
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Head of Tigray resigns

Head of Tigray resigns

NEWS
THE head of Ethiopia's Tigray region government has resigned, his deputy said on yesterday, without giving details. Mulu Nega was appointed head of the federal government-appointed interim administration in November during a military offensive launched in the northern region after regional forces attacked its bases there. His deputy Abebe Gebrehiwot Yihdego told Reuters of his resignation. Mulu did not respond to phone calls seeking comment. The Prime Minster's spokeswoman and a government spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Fighting between the federal government and forces in the northern region broke out in November and is believed to…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Tributes for Jabu Mabuza

Tributes for Jabu Mabuza

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER TRIBUTES have poured in for top South African business leader and former chair of Eskom Jabu Mabuza has passed away after a battle with COVID-19. Mabuza (63) passed on at the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, where he was being treated after falling ill during a visit to the Maldives. Friends and colleagues of Mabuza took to social media platforms to pay tribute to a man who has run many major businesses in South Africa, including Tsogo Sun and state-owned enterprises such as Telkom. He was also president of Business Unity South Africa and served on the boards…
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May
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Bashir ally would prefer ICC to Sudan court for Darfur trial

Bashir ally would prefer ICC to Sudan court for Darfur trial

NEWS
ONE of the key people accused of war crimes and genocide in Darfur in the early 2000s said yesterday he would prefer to be tried in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rather than what he said were biased Sudanese courts. Ousted President Omar al-Bashir has for years resisted the ICC warrants against him and four close allies over the conflict in Sudan's western region that killed an estimated 300,000 people and drove 2.5 million from their homes. They face charges at The Hague of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by pro-government forces in…
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Jun
17
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC’s ex-PM face charges

DRC’s ex-PM face charges

NEWS
TANIS BUJAKERA and AARON ROSS THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Senate has rejected a request by prosecutors to lift former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon's immunity so they could indict him for his role in a failed agriculture project in which investigators say $200 million disappeared. Prosecutors hoped to charge Matata, who served as the DRC's prime minister under former President Joseph Kabila from 2012 to 2016, with fraud, misappropriation of funds and dereliction of duty in connection with the project. Matata has denied wrongdoing, including any responsibility for the missing funds. Matata hailed the project, known as Bukanga…
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May
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Almost 5 000 children separated in Tigray

Almost 5 000 children separated in Tigray

NEWS
AYENAT MERSIE CONFLICT in Ethiopia's Tigray region has separated nearly 5,000 children from their parents, Save the Children said yesterday. Many children now live in crowded conditions, often sleeping in rooms with dozens of unrelated adults, leaving them vulnerable to abuse, Save the Children said. Fighting between the federal government and forces in the northern region broke out in November and is believed to have killed thousands and displaced more than a million people. Save the Children's account was borne out by one young girl, who told Reuters how she had come home to find both her parents gone. Freweyni,…
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