South Africa (SA) has taken a battering on the international front as ongoing xenophobic attacks and hateful rhetoric against foreigners have sparked condemnation from several African countries and international bodies, notes Legalbrief Africa. Over the past week, condemnation has come from Ghana, Zimbabwe ... Read More

Botswana has officially removed the remaining colonial-era provisions that criminalised consensual same-sex intimacy, more than six years after the courts first struck them down. The government published the amendment in March, removing paragraphs (a) and (c) of section 164 of ... Read More

The DRC is taking a dramatic step to protect its massive mineral wealth by planning to build a new paramilitary force to police its mining sector, reports Business Insider Africa. According to the country's General Inspectorate of Mines (IGM ... Read More

The Democracy For Citizens Party leader and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is demanding over Ksh80m ($620 000) in compensation from the government after his October 2024 impeachment, reports the Kenyans. High Court documents detail a wide-ranging list of financial ... Read More

The US-based organisers of an international human rights conference in Zambia said they cancelled it days before it was due to open because China pressured the African host country to exclude Taiwanese activists, reports ABC News. Organisers Access Now, a ... Read More

Ghana is the latest African country to reject a bilateral health deal with the US, a source told Reuters, the latest stumbling block to the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul foreign aid. According to TimesLIVE, the government of President John ... Read More

The International Criminal Court issued a landmark reparations order on Tuesday for victims of religious persecution perpetrated by an al-Qaeda-linked leader, reports My Joy Online. Judges mandated that $8.4m be paid to victims of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz ... Read More

Calls for mediation in the long-running dispute over the remains of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu have intensified, with Willah Mudolo emerging as a central figure, reports The Star. Mudolo, who became President of Zambia’s Patriotic Front after other candidates ... Read More

Bellarmine Mugabe, the youngest son of the late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has been deported from South Africa (SA) after escaping an attempted murder charge – walking away instead with a R600 000 fine for lesser offences, reports City ... Read More

After SA's Pretoria Regional Court postponed his hearing on Wednesday, anti-western and pan-African activist Kemi Seba will remain in detention, reports africanews. He is wanted in Benin on charges of inciting rebellion, after backing a coup attempt in December ... Read More

Taking power in Mali might be a stretch but insurgents can force the hand of the weakened regime. The Guardian's security correspondent Jason Burke says when al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic militants launched a series of attacks on military bases and raids ... Read More

The Constitutional Court in Zambia has just delivered a major new decision that will affect many thousands of refugees living in that country. In their unanimous decision the judges held that provisions of the Citizenship Act, effectively preventing refugees and ... Read More

‘Courts martial lack the jurisdiction to handle such grave constitutional offences.’  Femi Falana, renowned human rights lawyer, condemning the Nigerian military for starting a general court martial to try 36 personnel accused of involvement in an alleged plot to ... Read More

'If I were not African, I wonder whether I would realise that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.'  Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read More

There are 100m first language Arabic speakers in Africa, with 54m in Egypt alone. Read More