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Jun
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Heritage dispute on Amazon’s new African HQ

Heritage dispute on Amazon’s new African HQ

NEWS
WENDELL ROELF For the Khoi and San - South Africa's first inhabitants - a verdant patch of land in Cape Town embodies victory and tragedy. The two communities drove back cattle-raiding Portuguese soldiers there in 1510. But, a century and a half later, it was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession. Today it is again the scene of another conflict, this time over a development where construction is due to begin this month and which will eventually be home to a new 70,000-square metre Africa headquarters for U.S. retail giant Amazon. "This is where land was first…
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Jun
04
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC extends martial law

DRC extends martial law

NEWS
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo lawmakers have voted to extend martial law in the restive east of the country for 15 days, a month after they replaced civilian authorities with military administrations in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. Violence has been endemic in Congo's mineral-rich eastern regions since the official end of the civil war in 2003, but insecurity has soared in the past two years. On May 6, the government imposed a state of siege to try to end the bloodshed. Violent attacks have since continued, but Justice Minister Rose Mutombo said numerous militia fighters had surrendered and the army…
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Jun
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s humanitarian crisis

Nigeria’s humanitarian crisis

NEWS
RISING insecurity in Nigeria's northwestern state of Zamfara has spawned a humanitarian crisis, International aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Gunmen, often riding motorcycles, have attacked towns in the northwest in recent years, forcing thousands to flee across the northern border to Niger. Attackers have attained global notoriety through mass kidnappings at schools, abducting more than 800 students since December. MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said the security situation had worsened in the last few months. It referred to an increase in reports of kidnappings, killings, armed robbery and sexual violence in the region. The…
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Jun
04
2021
By The African Mirror
France-Mali military operations suspended

France-Mali military operations suspended

NEWS
TANGI SALAUN FRANCE is suspending its joint military operations with local troops in Mali as part of efforts to pressure the military junta there to restore a civilian-led government. Mali's military arrested interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane last week and pressured them to resign, derailing a transition to democratic elections after another military coup last August. Former vice president Assimi Goita, a colonel who led the August coup and last week's revolt, was declared president on Friday. West African regional bloc ECOWAS and the African Union have suspended Mali from their organisations and threatened sanctions. [nL2N2NJ38M}…
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Jun
04
2021
By The African Mirror
No explosive device aboard the Air France flight from Chad

No explosive device aboard the Air France flight from Chad

NEWS
NO explosive device has been found aboard an Air France aeroplane that arrived from Chad escorted by the French army following an anonymous threat about the possible presence of such a device, Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin said in a tweet yesterday. "No explosive device has been found aboard the Air France Ndjamena-Paris plane, end of operation", Darmanin said. Air France said earlier in a statement that following the threat, Air France Flight AF865 from N'Djamena to Paris had been escorted by a French Air Force fighter plane and had landed at the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Little food and water for Congolese fleeing volcano

Little food and water for Congolese fleeing volcano

NEWS
DJAFFAR AL KATANTY FAMILIES fleeing a volcano eruption in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday they were struggling to find enough food and water as the United Nations called for aid and warned about the risk of cholera. At least 31 people died when Mount Nyiragongo sent a wall of lava spreading towards Goma on Saturday last week, destroying 3,000 homes along the way and cutting a major road used to bring aid to the strife-torn region. The lava stopped just short of the city limits, but thousands more people fled early on Thursday when the government warned…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Zambia ex-minister jailed for graft

Zambia ex-minister jailed for graft

NEWS
A Zambian court yesterday jailed a former cabinet minister for two years in a corruption case that had prompted some Western donors to freeze aid to the southern African nation. Britain, Finland, Ireland and Sweden withheld nearly $34 million in aid to Zambia's social welfare and education sectors in 2018 because of concern over financial mismanagement. Edgar Lunga. Picture: Flickr Following the aid freeze, President Edgar Lungu fired former Community Development and Social Welfare Minister Emerine Kabanshi, who was in charge of the funds. The case was a test of how Lungu is addressing corruption in a government that is…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Fears grow for DRC’s lone children

Fears grow for DRC’s lone children

NEWS
JORDAN MAYENIKINI ABOUT 70 Congolese children who have been unable to find their families four days after a deadly volcanic eruption could be at risk of kidnap and child labour, emergency responders have said. The United Nations said 31 people have died, 40 are missing and 20,000 fled their homes when Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world's most active and dangerous volcanoes, erupted on Saturday near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said 561 children were separated from their families as they ran - out of which 487 have been reunited and 74…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
President pledges millions to fight GBV

President pledges millions to fight GBV

NEWS
NITA BHALLA KENYA'S president pledged millions of dollars in state funds to help tackle a surge in gender-based violence during the pandemic, outlining plans to open women's shelters across the country and improve policing. Uhuru Kenyatta said crime statistics showed cases involving violence against women had almost doubled between January and June 2020 compared with the previous year. "Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic's social and economic impacts have increased exposure of women to physical, sexual and psychological violence, while at the same time limited their access to protective and recovery services," Kenyatta told a conference on gender…
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May
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Findings on DRC sexual abuse probe imminent

Findings on DRC sexual abuse probe imminent

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE World Health Organization, facing pressure from donors, said that an independent investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo against WHO aid workers should issue findings by the end of August. The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported last October that more than 50 women had accused aid workers from the WHO and leading charities of sexual exploitation and abuses during the Ebola outbreak. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told its annual ministerial session on Friday that any abusive behaviour was "totally incompatible with WHO's mission" and he was aware that some states were frustrated…
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