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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Around 30 killed in attack on village in Burkina Faso

Around 30 killed in attack on village in Burkina Faso

NEWS
ARMED assailants killed around 30 people in an attack on a village in eastern Burkina Faso yesterday, according to four security sources. The attack took place in the village of Hantoukoura near the border with Niger in Est region, an area hit by rising insecurity as jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State seek to gain control over once peaceful territories. In a statement, Est Governor Saidou Sanou said more than 10 civilians and two members of a civilian defence militia were killed by the unidentified attackers, who also torched a number of shops and ransacked the…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Govt pleads for unity in royal family

Govt pleads for unity in royal family

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE South African government and the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government have appealed for unity and stability following the developments of division within the Amazulu royal family in the aftermath of the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini. Dr Nkosazana Zuma, the Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala met members of the royal family after one of King Zwelithini’s widows went to court to stop the execution of his will. The meeting also follows a public spat between Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the traditional prime minister of the royal family and the late King’s siblings. Buthelezi…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
‘No grounds to pursue claims of French role in Rwanda genocide’

‘No grounds to pursue claims of French role in Rwanda genocide’

NEWS
THERE were no grounds to pursue legal claims that France bore responsibility for enabling the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the French prosecutor's department said yesterday. Rwanda last month published a report in which it said that France was aware that genocide was being prepared in Rwanda ahead of the killings. France's top prosecutor, Remy Heitz, said in a statement that investigations carried out by French authorities could not prove any complicity by French troops in the killings which were orchestrated by the Hutu-led government. Between April and July 1994, some 800,000 people were killed, most from the ethnic Tutsi minority…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
From street kid to mentor: surviving childhood labour in Ethiopia

From street kid to mentor: surviving childhood labour in Ethiopia

NEWS
FORMER child-labourer Teklu Haimelo, 41, is on a mission to help Ethiopian children on the outskirts of Addis Ababa who weave traditional clothes get an education. This is Teklu's story as told to Ethiopia correspondent EMELINE WUILBERCQ When I was six, I had to go to my village to help my grandparents take care of their cattle. There was no education and children were treated by their relatives as workers. It was hell in the village. Life was very hard. I did not have proper clothes. There was no water to wash our hands before eating and no basic infrastructure.…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak

Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak

NEWS
THE Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained using Merck's Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients' contacts and contacts of contacts, the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said. The cases were genetically linked to the 2018-20 Ebola epidemic that killed more than 2,200 people, the second-highest toll recorded in the disease's history. The latest flare-up emerged on Feb. 3 in the city of Butembo with the death of…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Woman (29) jailed for rape of boy (13)

Woman (29) jailed for rape of boy (13)

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A 29 year-old South African woman has been sentenced to 12 years in jail after she was convicted of the rape of a 13 year-old boy. Thembakazi Dyamani, from Gqeberha, former Port Elizabeth, had pleaded guilty to the crime that took place in June 2020. She told the court that she was too drunk that day to remember what happened. According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), on June 4, last year, the boy and his friend had accompanied Dyamani to a relative of hers. During the night, Dyamani started playing with the 13-year-old’s private parts. “The…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Chad’s military names new government

Chad’s military names new government

NEWS
CHAD’S military rulers have named a new government after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby, but leading opposition figures rejected the appointments as a continuation of an old order they hoped to erase. Deby's death last month on the frontlines in a fight against northern rebels ended his 30-year rule and sparked a crisis in the Central African country which has long been an ally in the West's fight against jihadists in the region. A military council run by Deby's son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, seized power after he died and promised to hold elections within 18 months. Former colonial…
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Jun
16
2021
By The African Mirror
15 killed in suicide bombing at army camp in Somalia

15 killed in suicide bombing at army camp in Somalia

NEWS
FEISAL OMAR and  ABDHIRAHMAN HUSSEIN AT least 15 people were killed today in a suicide bombing as recruits lined up outside an army camp in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a Reuters witness who counted the bodies at Madina Hospital said. Officials at the hospital confirmed the dead were killed in an attack earlier in the day at a checkpoint outside the General Degaban military training camp in the capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al Shabaab frequently carries out bombings in the Horn of Africa country. Dozens of people crowded outside Madina Hospital searching for their…
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May
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Rhino poachers are back in South Africa

Rhino poachers are back in South Africa

NEWS
AKHONA MATSHOBA and SHAFIEK TASSIEM RHINO poaching is on the rise again in South Africa since the government loosened coronavirus restrictions, following a year-long lull due to the pandemic, wildlife parks say. The strict limits on travel, including international travel, imposed in March last year had the happy side effect of keeping poachers at bay. In 2020, 394 rhinos were poached, 30% fewer than the year before and the lowest yearly tally since 2011. But then South Africa began easing international travel restrictions in November. "Since November, December last year and into 2021, this landscape and particularly Kruger National Park…
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Jun
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Gupta ally freed on R10 000 bail

Gupta ally freed on R10 000 bail

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER DINESH Patel, an ally of the Gupta family, suspected of being at the centre of state capture in South Africa, has appeared in court and was granted bail of R10 000. Patel, a 5th accused, joined his brother-in-law Iqbal Sharma and 15 other accused in facing charges of fraud, money laundering in connection to the R25-million feasibility study that was to be conducted on the Estina Dairy Farm in Vrede, in the Free State. According to the charge sheet, Patel’s company, Nulane Investments, received the R25-million from the Free State government and because it had no capacity…
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