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Publish date: 26 May 2025
Issue Number: 1127
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: general

'Labelling Afrikaners as refugees plays to the insecurities of Trump’s political base. This finds the idea of a white minority being ruled by a black majority government difficult to swallow.'

Wits University professor Roger Southall

 

‘There’s no legal basis to provide for the trial of civilians in the military court.'

Ugandan opposition MP Jonathan Odur, during a parliamentary debate 

 

‘All the evidence has established that the former President, who single-handedly ruled the entire country, is the perpetrator of illicit enrichment, abuse of power, and money laundering.’

Brahim Ebety, one of the plaintiff lawyers for the Mauritanian state after former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s  corruption sentence was extended

 

‘The treatment of the migrants on your orders and in your name was horrifying. They were, simply a commodity to you.’

UK judge Adam Hiddleston when sentencing Egyptian Ahmed Ebid to 25 years imprisonment for smuggling thousands of migrants into Europe from North Africa

 

‘Whites are sending you to destabilise our country’   

Tanzanian police officer allegedly told Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire during her detention and alleged torture

 

 

 

 

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