As the US pushes full steam ahead to deport illegal migrants, eyeing some African countries as relocation destinations, it has at the same time controversially granted refugee status to white Afrikaners from South Africa, the first batch of whom departed ... Read More
According to the latest Reporters Without Borders’ annual press freedom index, Ethiopia went from being 110th out of 180 countries in 2019 to 145th this year, as mass arrests and the detention of media workers across the country took their ... Read More
Ghana’s Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an objection raised by former Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, against the participation of Acting Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie in the panel hearing the case concerning the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo. Dame, who ... Read More
Deborah Seyram Adablah, the woman at the centre of a high-profile legal dispute with a banker, has been sentenced to 45 days in prison, reports My Joy Online. The sanction is for contempt of court after posting disparaging remarks about ... Read More
Women’s groups have raised the alarm about two impending African anti-rights conferences, featuring prominent US conservatives, that have previously been used to mobilise for anti-LGBTQ laws and restrictions on sexual and reproductive rights on the continent, according to Health Policy ... Read More
Two Belgian teenagers who were found with 5 000 ants in Kenya have been fined $7 700 or the option to serve 12 months in prison for violating wildlife conservation laws, reports The Independent. Belgian nationals Lornoy David and Seppe ... Read More
Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process aimed at ending the fighting in eastern Congo and attracting billions of dollars in Western investment, reports RFI. The deal is the latest step in an ... Read More
Angola's Bar Association has denounced a court order which halted its planned debate on electoral reforms as a ‘severe blow’ to democracy, reports Barrons. The Luanda Court of Appeal ruled that the event could not go ahead on the grounds ... Read More
The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has reserved judgment in the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) challenge to the Employment Equity Amendment Act, says a report in The Mercury. The DA had argued that the recent amendments are unconstitutional and violate the principle ... Read More
Africa remains one of the regions most battered by corruption’s effects. From crippled development projects to weakened governance, the costs have been enormous. Worse still, grand corruption – the kind committed by those at the highest levels of power – ... Read More
Determined – and brave – staff at Uganda’s Makerere University law school have done it again: they have incorporated a current ‘hot’ Ugandan human rights issue into an examination written last week. Carmel Rickard, in her A Matter of Justice ... Read More
‘Moreover, even if there are allegations of discrimination, it is our view that these do not meet the threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law.’ SA International Relations spokesperson Chrispin Phiri on the SA Government's opposition ... Read More
‘For the mother who sees her child die because of lack of food, the economy of resource scarcity is irrelevant and the politics of public policy does not matter; they do not help a grieving mother, she has lost her ... Read More
The oral word is revered in most African societies, and history has generally been recorded via oral tradition. This has led anthropologists to term them 'oral civilisations', contrasted with 'literate civilisations' which pride the written word. Read More
