The future of the Chagos Islands and a secretive UK/US airbase is set to be an early flashpoint between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer as the President-elect seeks to veto the controversial deal signed off by the UK ... Read More
A journalist detained in an Eritrean prison without trial for 23 years has won a Swedish human rights prize for his commitment to freedom of expression. BBC News reports that Dawit Isaak, who holds dual Eritrean-Swedish citizenship, was awarded the ... Read More
A new amendment Bill before Kenya's Parliament seeks to impose tougher regulations against foreign firms seeking to conduct business in the country. The Kenyan Wall Street reports that the Bill seeks to amend the Public Procurement & Asset Disposal Act ... Read More
Kenya’s most senior judge has hit out following recent allegations of corruption and incompetence within the judiciary. ‘In all these 22 years I’ve been a judge and a Chief Justice, nobody has ever approached me with a bribe. I would ... Read More
With COP29 in its second week, delegates are no closer to agreeing to increase much-needed assistance for climate-vulnerable countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. EWN reports that a Kenyan expert on global warming has warned that politics often drowns ... Read More
French-manufactured military technology incorporated into armoured personnel carriers (APCs) made by the UAE is being used on the battlefield in Sudan in what likely constitutes a violation of the UN arms embargo on Darfur, Amnesty International has noted. It identified ... Read More
South Africa's Competition Tribunal has instructed Google to allow Lottoland to advertise on Google Ads – for now. The bookmaker which is licensed by the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board and owned by Gibraltar-based Betfred, offers fixed-odds bets on ... Read More
An investigation by NPO Open Secrets has accused heavyweight South African estate agents and law firms of facilitating money laundering, allegedly helping African kleptocrats use dirty money to acquire luxury properties in the country. In a report published last week ... Read More
The spiritual leader of Anglicans in SA, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, has announced an inquiry into whether the church fulfilled its responsibility to protect its members from abuse. A Daily Maverick report says this comes in the wake of the resignation ... Read More
The Competition Commission has recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve, without conditions, the acquisition by Grindrod Mauritius of Terminal de Carvão da Matola (TCM). ‘The commission is of the view that the proposed transaction is unlikely to substantially lessen or ... Read More
Kenya was among several African countries elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last month. The country’s bid for a seat attracted criticism from local and international civil society organisations because of its poor human rights record. The ... Read More
More than 25 years after the horrific al-Qaeda bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, litigation in the High Court at Embu, north east of Nairobi, is a reminder that the pain and fallout from the attacks still continues ... Read More
18: G20 Leaders’ Summit under the theme “Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet”. President Cyril Ramphosa will deliver South Africa’s statements at the respective plenary sessions on the fight against hunger and poverty and later on the ... Read More
‘Instead of protecting the complainant, the accused violated the sanctity of his own daughter (and these) actions inflicted far-reaching consequences and irreparable harm.’ – Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen, who convicted a man of raping his 15-year-old ... Read More
‘We are all children of Africa, and none of us is better or more important than the other. This is what Africa could say to the world: it could remind it what it is to be human.’ – Alexander ... Read More
The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500km south of the Maldives archipelago. The Chagos Islands had been home to the Chagossians, a Bourbonnais Creole-speaking people, until ... Read More
