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 trading

‘The Tanzanian Government has crossed every red line of democratic legitimacy. …The poisoning attempt (on imprisoned opposition leader, Tundu Lissu) is just the latest in a pattern of politically motivated abuses.’ 

Lissu's lawyers, Amsterdam & Partners LLP, calling on all donor states and institutions providing budgetary support to Tanzania to immediately suspend such aid pending independent investigations and demonstrable political reform 

‘If the side that we are working with plays tricks and takes us back to the problem, then we deal with the problem like we have been dealing with it.’ 

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on the US-brokered peace deal with the DRC  

‘A President standing on a public platform and openly instructing police to shoot unarmed Kenyans is not only morally bankrupt, it is a blatant violation of the Constitution.’ 

Constitutional lawyer Willis Otieno, after President William Ruto gave police a shoot to injure order for unruly protesters