South African President President Cyril Ramaphosa last night announced that a judicial commission of inquiry will probe the damning allegations made by a provincial police commissioner against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and other senior figures. As previously reported in Legalbrief ... Read More
Angola has increased the price of diesel by one-third, as the government pushes ahead with its phased removal of fuel subsidies to stabilise strained public finances, reports 360Mozambique. From Friday, the cost of diesel rose from 300 kwanzas to 400 ... Read More
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said yesterday that he would be seeking an eighth term in office in October’s elections in a bid to extend his nearly 43 years in power, reports France24. Biya (92) posted the announcement on X in ... Read More
The trial of DRC's former Minister of Justice Constant Mutamba has been postponed for two weeks after its opening hearing in a Kinshasa court, reports africanews. Mutamba stepped down last month following an investigation into allegations he had embezzled ... Read More
The Government of Ghana’s efforts to haul in former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to account for his stewardship in the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration, has received a boost following indications by sources at the US Department of Justice and the FBI ... Read More
The four most affluent Africans hold $57.4bn and are richer than approximately 50% of the continent’s 750m inhabitants, according to a report by the anti-poverty organisation Oxfam. The report states that Africa had no billionaires in 2000, notes News24 ... Read More
There are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in western Sudan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) told the UN Security Council last week. Targeted sexual violence against women and girls of specific ethnicities ... Read More
The Katse Dam, the largest in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) and a key water source for the Vaal Dam, which provides all drinking water for Johannesburg in South Africa, is at the centre of a constitutional case to ... Read More
In May, social media was full of posts claiming a coup was under way in Ivory coast. Dramatic footage of soldiers on the street flooded platforms, while AI-generated and presenter-led reports were racking up millions of views on YouTube. But ... Read More
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is unsure whether a US-brokered peace deal would hold with the DRC and warned he would respond to any ‘tricks’ from his neighbour, reports TimesLIVE. The agreement signed last week calls for Rwandan troops to withdraw ... Read More
Protesters braving police batons, water cannon and occasional bullets on Kenya's streets have taken up a rallying cry (‘Ruto wantam’, or Ruto one-term) that is likely to unnerve its embattled President, William Ruto, writes Hereward Holland and Edwin Okoth ... Read More
Victims of state violence won important victories last week in SA and in Kenya. In SA, the family of student leader Caiphus Nyoka, murdered by apartheid secret police in 1987, said they felt some closure after a court sentenced one ... Read More
‘This is money that would not have come back to Ghana because traders would have taken it and kept the foreign exchange outside.’ Ghana President John Dramani, launching a task force backed by security forces to address illegal gold ... Read More
‘But African time was not the same as American time … As African time passed, I surmised that the pace of Western countries was insane, that the speed of modern technology accomplished nothing, and that because Africa was going its ... Read More
The mediaeval Nigerian city of Benin was built to ‘a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China’. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10 000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city ... Read More
* Former Uganda Supreme Court Justice Professor George Kanyeihamba has died. He served as a Supreme Court judge from 1997 to 2009. Kanyeihamba served Uganda in various capacities and was chair of the Legal Committee of the Constituent Assembly that drafted ... Read More
