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16 July 2025 Africa Legal News Watch

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Commission to probe alleged 'capture' of SA's police

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

Regional News


Government moves ahead with removal of fuel subsidies

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

President (92) seeks eighth term

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

Former Justice Minister’s graft case postponed

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

Africa International


Ghana moves closer to extraditing ex-Finance Minister

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

Number of billionaires in Africa jumps by 50%

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

ICC finds war crimes being committed in Darfur

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

General


Constitutional test over Lesotho dam project case

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

Ivory Coast suffers fake coup reports

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

Kagame warns against 'tricks' after DRC peace deal

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

Africa Analysis


Ruto's uphill battle to tame Gen Z protesters

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

A Matter of Justice


Long road to redress for past state injustices

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

QUOTES


Quotes

‘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

WORDS OF WISDOM


Words of Wisdom

‘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

DID YOU KNOW?


Did You Know?

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

At a Glance


Former Supreme Court Justice dies

* 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

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