Peru - The African Mirror

Mar

2024

DRC overtakes Peru on copper output, still behind on exports

THE Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) overtook Peru as the world's second-largest copper producer in 2023, though it still lags behind the South American country in exports, official data from both nations show. DRC produced about 2.84 million tons of copper last year, the country's central bank reported. Peru's output was 2.76 million tons, the Andean country's mining and energy ministry said. DRC has been reeling in Peru's No. 2 copper spot over recent years, with flagging mining investment in Peru linked to red tape and recent political turmoil and protests. Chile remains the distant top producer of the red metal.…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

Russia to resume flights with S. A, Djibouti

COVID-19

RUSSIA will resume passenger flights with Denmark, South Africa, New Zealand, Peru and Djibouti from October 5, the government has announced. Russia imposed wide-ranging travel restrictions at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, many of which remain in force.

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

Peru’s Castillo, the champion of the poor

WORLD

MARCO AQUINO PERU’S Pedro Castillo has come a long way to be on the cusp of winning the Andean nation's presidential election. The son of peasant farmers, who lives humbly as a teacher in Peru's north and tends animals on his land, is the narrow favorite ahead of Sunday's run-off vote that has become a referendum on wealth and poverty in the copper-rich country. Castillo, 51, who represents the socialist Peru Libre party, shot to prominence in April when he shocked analysts and pollsters to win the first-round vote. He even caught some major news outlets off guard, as they…

Aug

2020

By The African Mirror

‘I could have suffocated’: Peru’s pandemic tensions burst with nightclub tragedy

WORLD

MARCO AQUINO PERU, battling one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks and a five-month lockdown, was reeling on Monday after the deaths of 13 people, most of them young women, in a stampede at an illegal nightclub triggered by a police raid. The tragedy at the club, which authorities called "a breeding ground" for COVID-19, has exposed tensions in the Andean nation of 33 million people that has one of the world's worst per capita fatality rates with almost 28,000 deaths. Infections are rising again in a dangerous second wave and total almost 600,000, the sixth highest in the world.…