Nigeria, under pressure from the US over ongoing militant attacks, is attempting to strengthen its fight against terrorism, with mass trials and airstrikes, but it appears that civilians are once against bearing the brunt of the violence, notes Legalbrief Africa ... Read More

Polling stations closed in Benin as people in the West African nation voted for a new President yesterday, with Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni expected to coast to victory, reports DW. Nearly 8m voters were eligible to cast ballots to choose ... Read More

Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won an election with 97.8% of the vote, keeping him at the helm of the strategically-placed Horn of Africa nation for a sixth term, preliminary official results show. The 78-year-old's sole ... Read More

A Kenyan court on Thursday dismissed a bid to stop Diageo’s DGE.L $2.3bn sale of its local subsidiary East African Breweries Limited (EABL) to Japan’s Asahi Holdings, reports CNBC Africa. London-listed Diageo, maker of Johnnie Walker whisky and ... Read More

The Duke of Sussex is being sued by Sentebale in the latest twist in the bitter fallout over the African charity he co-founded, reports The Guardian. The charity has lodged papers in London’s High Court over defamation claims naming Prince ... Read More

A court in eSwatini has ruled that the first five migrants the Trump administration sent to the African kingdom have a right to a lawyer, after they were denied legal representation on their transfer from the US to a Swazi ... Read More

The UK has been forced to pause its plan to hand over the Chagos Islands, on which the US air base in Diego Garcia resides, after US President Donald Trump repeatedly criticised the deal, reports CNN. British Prime Minister Keir ... Read More

Seven players from the Eritrean football squad that scored a historic victory in eSwatini last week have failed to return home, a source close to the team told BBC News. While some of their teammates flew back from SA, the ... Read More

The Hai//om Association is suing the Namibian Government for N$2.8trn, which they say is what the Etosha National Park is worth, reports News24. The country's second largest San group was removed from the land in 1954 ... Read More

South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has summoned Mozambican consortium RGS to court over an allegedly fraudulent Absa bank letter that seems to have killed its chances to buy bankrupt sugar giant Tongaat Hulett. ‘Summons was issued and we will ... Read More

Is Macky Sall’s failed UN bid a stress test for the African Union (AU)? Djiby Sow, writing in a Polity analysis, says rather than indicating disunity, the outcome shows that the AU upheld its procedures for endorsing candidates to international ... Read More

Just because a country’s Constitution tells Parliament to do something, there’s no guarantee it will actually happen. And for the second time this year already, the Constitutional Court of an African country has had to remind parliamentarians – and the ... Read More

‘Today, digital platforms allow hate speech and incitement to violence to spread faster and farther than ever before – fuelled by artificial intelligence and misguided algorithms.’  UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, issuing a warning during the commemoration of the ... Read More

‘If you are waiting for the perfect leaders, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.'  Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean-Canadian philosopher, author and thought leader Read More

Before the Euro-American women’s liberation movements in the 1800s, African women descended from the longest list of women rulers in world history. Read More