The African Mirror https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html SCANDAL: Africa’s top ref turned away from the 2026 FIFA World Cup Blog Home Reviving the heart of African literature The great aviation illusion: How Nigeria cabinet minister pulled a multimillion rand fraud scheme Partey barred from Toronto – visa refusal adds new layer to Africa’s World Cup woes DRC’s Ebola crisis deepens as the sick, the malnourished and the forgotten bear the cost Referee Omar Artan: Rejected by the US, FIFA, welcomed as a hero at home in Somalia Tinubu to terrorists and kidnappers: surrender now or face state’s full force Nigeria raised electricity prices to improve supply. Why it hasn’t worked Tinubu honours journalists, lawyers and activists who bled for Nigeria’s democracy Netflix’s Winnie Mandela documentary is a reckoning – with a life, a nation, and the machinery that tried to break them both SA: Cleveland massacre exposes policing failures where migration, zama-zamas and informal settlements collide Thabo Mbeki tribute concert restores Soga to the African Renaissance African electricity systems are opening to private capital as utility dominance eases South Africa’s jobs crisis: what 10 years of tax data tells us Appolonia: the story of an African kingdom that resisted the Atlantic slave trade Return to Gaza’s Nasser Hospital: “Every single thing in the complex is a crisis” Forced labour in West African cybercrime academies: how fear traps young men The hunt for a new Ebola vaccine: two scientists explain the challenges Man pleads guilty to murder of former Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and husband I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times. Find out your team’s chances Tanzania goes to St. Petersburg: Samia’s $10-billion gambit to reposition Africa’s hidden giant Swift justice: Zimbabwean truck driver jailed for 20 years for smuggling explosives into SA This filmmaker is shifting our views on trash TANZANIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS: “It is time for us to take charge and realize our full potential.” Business as usual: How Europe’s most wanted drug lord runs his empire from a West African hideout A KNIFE IN THE NECK OF BRITAIN: How one attack in Belfast ignited the UK’s most explosive immigration crisis in years World Cup 2026: the real story of the resilient African migrants reshaping global football Climate change is threatening sheep farmers in South Africa’s Drakensberg – how they’re adapting The Price of Power: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and the reckoning that would not wait Anti‑foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with it Malian journalist detained over Pan-African forum remarks as press groups sound alarm EXCLUSIVE: Ruud Gullit calls on Gianni Infantino to resign amid growing World Cup controversy US/Israel-Iran War: Ceasefire remains elusive as it rains missiles, drone strikes The market moves before Trump posts Five years on the run, one morning at Kotoka: the long arm of the law finally reaches Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu Hostile at the gate: how the world’s greatest football tournament turned its back on Africa “FAIR TRIAL IMPOSSIBLE”: Uganda’s prominent detainee fights to stop trial and gain freedom Community trust and faster testing drive DRC response as Bundibugyo outbreak spreads to Uganda, WHO says How a poultry loss led to a digital management tool How are Saudis viewing the US‑Iran war? Our polling suggests Gulf kingdom is split on key issues Kagisho Dikgacoi backs Bafana to shock hosts Mexico in World Cup opener TB is curable. South Africans can’t wait around for someone else’s rescue. A brother in intelligence arms: The man who signed in green ink ICC prosecutor suspended: Karim Khan’s fall after Netanyahu indictment sparks international justice crisis South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous Ruto casts Africa as the century’s prize, with Kenya selling itself as the gateway US and Iran’s exchange of strikes shows how far diplomacy has changed Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free childcare center for city workers