South Africa’s courts have been described as ‘battlegrounds for contesting political forces’. Legalbrief reports that State of the Judiciary in Malawi, Namibia and South Africa, which was released last week, is based on data from Afrobarometer, a non-partisan, pan-African research ... Read More
A year since the DRC Government enacted a state of siege in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces, the number of civilians killed by armed groups has doubled, Amnesty International says in a new report. It said the state of ... Read More
A Congolese military court has sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya. BBC News reports that police commissioner Christian Kenga was found guilty of murder, desertion and misappropriation ... Read More
A lawyer has filed a case in court seeking to halt Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission's directive for political parties to comply with a two-thirds gender rule. Capital FM reports that Adrian Kamotho claimed the commission never undertook ... Read More
The Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (RFDA) has recalled India-manufactured batches of Amoxicillin 125mg/5ml Oral Suspension and Metronidazole vaginal 500mg due to quality issues. News24 notes that this followed ‘a deep investigation and laboratory quality control tests’. The medicines ... Read More
A former senior Rwandan official has gone on trial in Paris, accused of complicity in the 1994 genocide. Laurent Bucyibaruta is the most senior figure yet to face justice in France over the tragedy. Al Jazeera reports that the trial ... Read More
The Clooney Foundation for Justice has named its inaugural awards, which will be held on 29 September at the New York Public Library, after SA’s Justice Albie Sachs. The Daily Maverick reports that he will also receive a Lifetime Achievement ... Read More
The Zimbabwean Government says it is working closely with Rwanda to hunt down and extradite several alleged fugitives of the Rwandan genocide believed to be in the country. This was revealed by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Foreign Affairs a week ... Read More
Namibia has launched a sovereign wealth fund following oil discoveries by TotalEnergies and Shell off its coast. A Reuters report on the Al Jazeera site says President Hage Geingob said the Welwitschia Fund would get an initial injection of 262m ... Read More
A man who worked as a Facebook moderator in Kenya is suing the platform's parent company, Meta, accusing it of human trafficking and forced labour. Daniel Motaung was employed by Sama, a San Francisco tech-outsourcing firm that Facebook contracted ... Read More
The Cameroon-headquartered Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has urged the CAR to annul a law it passed in late April that made the cryptocurrency legal tender. The bank warned that the move breached its rules and could affect monetary ... Read More
A year has passed since the Constitutional Court ordered that former President Jacob Zuma be sent to jail for contempt of its ruling that he appear before the State Capture Inquiry. Zuma had refused to appear at the State Capture ... Read More
Two participants at a human rights training course for judges from 11 African countries, held in Cape Town last week, have first-hand experience of what making a bold human rights decision may sometimes demand. Judges Mike Tembo and Redson Kapindu ... Read More
‘We'll wait a month to see what decision the prosecutor makes with this case and then we'll be able to see what the next six months will be like.’ – Lawyer Kaarle Gummerus, after a Finland court ... Read More
An Ordinary Wonder By Buki Papillon Dialogue Books. $17 An inspiring and gut-wrenching story about an intersex Nigerian girl. With this page-turner, Papillon joins the chorus of African writers inventing a new language for unsilencing queer voices in African ... Read More
