‘Blossoms in spring turn into fruit in autumn, and a bumper harvest is the reward of hard work.’ That’s the view of Chinese President Xi Jinping who addressed the eagerly anticipated Forum on Africa-China Co-operation (FOCAC) in Beijing last ... Read More

Botswana will hold general elections on 30 October, President Mokgweetsi Masisi has confirmed. He said 30 and 31 October would be public holidays to allow people to ‘vote in large numbers’. Parliament will be dissolved today, he said. News24 reports ... Read More

The DRC’s Makala Prison – the scene of a deadly and failed breakout a week ago – is in the spotlight with former inmates describing it as ‘hell’. Journalist Stanis Bujakera was sent to the notorious prison last September after ... Read More

Lesotho has restarted a plan to act against foreign-owned businesses, and to pressure SA companies to work via Basotho-owned distributors. The kingdom created new regulations in 2021 that could see foreign-owned businesses expelled, but has been moving slowly on implementation ... Read More

President Cyril Ramaphosa has rebuffed a suggestion by Mkhonto we Sizwe Party parliamentary leader John Hlophe that SA’s foreign policy was not centred on Africa. A Business Day report says during a question-and-answer session in the National Assembly, the President ... Read More

Two brothers from Nigeria who targeted a 17-year-old in a sextortion scam have been sentenced to 17 years and six months in jail in the US. The Ogoshi brothers, from Lagos, lured Jordan DeMay into sending them explicit images by ... Read More

SA continues to find itself at the centre of geopolitical tensions between China, Russia and the US as President Cyril Ramaphosa again woos his Chinese counterpart in Beijing and the UN gears for its much anticipated Summit of the Future ... Read More

Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died Thursday, days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya. The Daily Maverick reports that Cheptegei (33) who competed in the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to ... Read More

Former SA President Thabo Mbeki has suggested the deadly 2008 xenophobic attacks in Alexandra were part of a planned operation to drive Zimbabweans back home to vote out Robert Mugabe. Mbeki made the startling revelations on Wednesday during a conversation ... Read More

The process to have the remains of several SA freedom fighters repatriated from Lusaka has begun, notes a Weekend Argus report. The individuals buried in Zambia were exiled during the apartheid era and had sought shelter in Zambia while they ... Read More

Police and protesters clashed outside Botswana's National Assembly in Gaborone last week as MPs voted on a Bill that would have given the President sweeping powers to appoint civil servants to key positions. Opposition MPs boycotted the vote, while protesters ... Read More

The South West Africa National Union (Swanu) is calling for the introduction of the death penalty to deal with those found guilty of murder and other heinous crimes. The Namibian reports that party leader Evalistus Kaaronda told Desert Radio that ... Read More

The deputy head of the International Crime Division (ICD) of the Uganda High Court, Justice Susan Okalany, has appealed to war victims to task their local governments and MPs with fast-tracking the passing of the Transitional Justice Bill, following the ... Read More

The ninth Forum on China-Africa Co-operation in Beijing took place under the theme of ‘Joining hands to advance modernisation and build a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future’. But how shared can that future be between the Asian economic ... Read More

The skipper of a Sri Lankan fishing boat, caught operating unlawfully in the waters of Seychelles, has come off badly from his appeal against the sentence imposed by the High Court. Carmel Rickard, in her A Matter of Justice column ... Read More

  9: US Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello is travelling to Riyadh, Cairo and Ankara to continue urgent efforts to end the war and resultant famine in Sudan. Building on the recent success of the Aligned for Advancing Lifesaving ... Read More

    CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA S Akweenda | Print ISBN: 978-1-48513-930-0   Constitutional Law of the Republic of Namibia offers a detailed exploration of Namibian constitutional law, including judicial review, human rights and international law principles. Covering topics ... Read More

  ‘Makala is not a prison, but a detention centre resembling a concentration camp, where people are sent to die.’ – Journalist Stanis Bujakera, who was sent to the notorious DRC prison last September    ‘I wish to reaffirm ... Read More

  ‘Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.’ – Ayi ... Read More

  Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island, the second-largest island country and the 46th largest country in the world. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from Africa during the Early Jurassic, around 180m years ... Read More

* Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote has regained the first place as Africa's richest person, unseating Johann Rupert who had claimed the title in late August, according to Bloomberg Billionaire Index. The 66-year-old founder and CEO of the Dangote Group, a ... Read More