Quotes

 ‘As lawyers, we are tired of a corrupt judiciary that refuses to reform itself.' 

Ahmednasir Abdullahi, Kenyan lawyer, after lawyers launched a nationwide court boycott to protest judicial corruption and chronic delays 

 

‘The government recognises that domestic violence must be treated as a serious offence and not as a private matter.’ 

Mauritian Attorney-General Gavin Glover told Parliament before lawmakers voted to criminalise marital rape

 

‘Sall is unfit for the United Nations. You cannot shed blood and then lead the UN.’ 

Boubacar Seye, who heads a collective representing victims of Macky Sall's regime, after Senegal formally endorsed Sall's bid to become the next UN Secretary-General 

 

‘The fight against illegal mining cannot become credible only when it targets political opponents in respect of whom evidence of wrongdoing does not exist.’ 

Justin Kodua Frimpong, general secretary of Ghana’s opposition party, the  New Patriotic Party, after one of its most influential leaders, Bernard Boasiako, was sentenced to 20 years in jail, with hard labour, for illegal mining offences