Quotes

‘The consequences of non-compliance with the relevant laws make any exercise by the Authority in respect to import licences null and void.’ 

Judge Inyang Ekwo of the Nigerian Federal High Court, ordering the petroleum regulator to continue issuing fuel import licences 

 

‘If they choose to join Burundian citizens and make a valuable contribution to national development, the law will be respected.’ 

Nancy Mutoni, spokesperson for President Evariste Ndayishimiye regarding potential citizenship for migrants deported by the US to Burundi

 

‘Who has an interest in preventing the truth from coming out?’

– Jean-Claude Mulingenya, lawyer for the family of Valli Amisi, a young entrepreneur based in South Africa, who was murdered in April at a hotel in the Congolese capital, lamenting the stalled extradition to the DRC of the the main suspect who was arrested in Brazzaville

  

‘Mr (Massad) Boulos), (US senior adviser for Arab and African Affairs) seems to be putting pressure on us to accept a de facto partitioning of the country similar to the Libyan model.'  

Amjad Farid, an adviser to Sudan’s army leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan after his visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York had been withheld because he had not yet accepted the US peace proposal