Quotes

‘I will be happy to escort all of you to jail along with myself.’

Former Nigerian Minister Alison-Madueke, allegedly threatening oil tycoons who had bribed her 

 

‘The sentence was so mild, I even qualify it as friendly because we are talking of a massacre.’  

One of the victims' lawyers, Sother Menkem, after three Cameroonian soldiers were sentenced to prison for their role in the killing of at least 21 civilians in the country's troubled Anglophone region 

 

 ‘I don’t think this border closure will necessarily do that. What it will do, however, is make it much more difficult for those fleeing violence in Sudan to make it to relative safety in eastern Chad.’ 

Kholood Khair, a political analyst, after Chad closed its eastern border to prevent Sudan’s fighting from spilling further into its territory 

 

‘Across the continent, Africans have long seen themselves as one people and borders as little more than lines on a map.’

Business and politics writer, Dennis Mulilo, calling for a visa-free Africa