Tunisian President President Kaïs Saïed has dismissed calls for an end to the mass trial of lawyers, diplomats, politicians and journalists, some of whom are barred from attending court despite pressure from the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the UN and human rights ... Read More

As the Botswana Government prepares to spend P62m ($4 467) to conduct a forensic audit on past public spending, President Duma Boko says there is no need to appoint a Presidential Commission of Inquiry to carry out the task because ... Read More

Parliament has adopted a motion to investigate the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) bid which allegedly set the government back by 65m Pula ($4.7m), reports Mmegi Online. Under the previous government, Botswana, in collaboration with Namibia, had intended ... Read More

The Kenyan High Court has extended conservatory orders barring the JSC from proceeding with three petitions seeking the removal of several Supreme Court judges, including Chief Justice Martha Koome, over alleged misconduct, incompetence and misbehaviour, says a report on the ... Read More

Sudan is taking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the civil war, reports BBC News. Khartoum argues the UAE is ‘complicit in ... Read More

Fifa's decision to ban for life a former Gabonese youth coach found guilty of sexually abusing players is a ‘positive first step’, but there are ‘many more perpetrators’, an official at global players' union Fifpro told BBC News. On ... Read More

The Lesotho Government is to send an official protest letter to Washington after US President Donald Trump mocked the nation during his address to Congress on Tuesday. According to The Guardian, Foreign Minister Lejone Mpotjoane told AFP that the country ... Read More

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Government has offered a reward of $5m for help arresting three leaders of a rebel group which has seized much of the east of the country this year, reports BBC News. Corneille Nangaa, a ... Read More

Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo and President Cyril Ramaphosa have agreed to strengthen political co-operation at bilateral, regional, continental and global levels. According to News24, Chapo told Ramaphosa the situation in his country was ‘good and now working’ during a ... Read More

The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has acknowledged that the country is making slow progress in safeguarding digital rights, citing outdated legal frameworks as a key challenge. Malawi24 reports that Macra’s director-general, Daud Suleman, responding to questions about the lack ... Read More

South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's unveiling on Friday of the first set of draft regulations for the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act has already sparked discontent inside and outside the healthcare sector, notes Legalbrief. Despite various objections ... Read More

It’s imperative for Kenya’s judiciary to take charge of its own narrative, writes Ndong Evance in Standard Media. Evance says court decisions can be lost in the noise of distortion and it becomes more baffling when senior legal practitioners, no ... Read More

Witchcraft cases heard in several countries, some as recently as last month, again put the spotlight on this serious problem. As usual, victims tend to be elderly, called out as witches because of some personal or community problem for which ... Read More

AN INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY LAW IN ZAMBIA M Chizinga | Print ISBN: 9781485152231 An Introduction to Family Law in Zambia is a vital resource that examines key legislative reforms, including the Children’s Code Act, the Anti-Gender-Based Violence Act, the Matrimonial Causes Act ... Read More

‘The best way to recommit ourselves to a new path is to remember that past and not re-erase it.’ Nicholas Opiyo, a human rights lawyer in Kampala after a court ruling allowing Uganda to change its colonial names   ... Read More

'You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself ' – Malcolm X Read More

The Sahara desert in North Africa has a number of distinct physical features, including ergs, regs, hamadas and oases. Ergs, which cover 20% of the Sahara, are sand dunes that stretch for hundreds of kilometres and reach heights of more ... Read More

* The Bank of Namibia (BoN) has launched a once-off N$60 ($ 3.27) banknote in commemoration of former President Hage Geingob. BoN governor Johannes !Gawaxab said the number 60 is symbolic, as it represents the number of years Geingob spent ... Read More