Quotes

'It is crucial to remember that every freedom has its limits, and that public safety and order must always supersede the desire for unchecked liberty.’

Kenya President William Ruto, after admitting to police use of excessive force to quell protests

 

‘Some of the soldiers who are supposed to be fighting the enemy at the front have shown a kind of indiscipline. We had to organise this educational trial to set things right.’

Local DRC army spokesperson Mak Hazukay, commenting on the sentencing to death of 13 soldiers

  

‘This wanton attack on the judiciary cannot and shall not be tolerated by our courts in the interests of preserving the rule of law and safeguarding the institutional integrity of our judicial system.’

The full Bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal after an attack on the judiciary by former President Jacob Zuma's Mkhonto we Sizwe Party

 

'We worked very closely together for the final (end) of colonialism in southern Africa and for the eradication of apartheid. And what was achieved in the early 1990s, the foundation was laid in those days of Jimmy Carter’.

Former Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo, paying tribute to the late former US President Jimmy Carter