February 9, 2022 THE African Union (AU) has suspended debate on Israel’s Observer Status at the pan-African body that was granted in July 2021. The AU has now established a six-member committee, which includes South Africa, to examine this issue and report back in a year’s time. Israel had Observer Status during the existence of […]
February 1, 2022 RWANDA is to host the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Africa in 15 years, the last having been held in Uganda in 2007. The meeting in Kigali will take place during the week of June 20, the Commonwealth Secretariat has announced in London. Rwanda was supposed to have hosted […]
January 27, 2022 A ZAMBIAN youth activist who was accused of defaming Edgar Lungu when he was president in November 2020 has had the charge dropped by the prosecution. Lawrence Kasonde was arrested for posting a video on a Patriotic Front (PF) WhatsApp group that allegedly defamed Lungu, according to the police. Lungu lost the […]
December 13, 2021 GLOBAL concerns continue to grow over the continued use of sexual violence in conflicts despite the establishment of international criminal courts that deal with such cases. In November, 12 governments – including those of Liberia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia and Hungary – issued a joint statement on preventing sexual-based violence […]
December 2, 2021 HUMAN rights groups in Central African Republic have been taken by surprise following the unexpected release from detention of Hassan Bouba, the country’s Minister of Livestock and Animal Health, who was being held on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. Bouba was arrested on November 19 and was expected to appear […]
November 30, 2021 GAMBIANS have been urged by President Adama Barrow to be patient as his government studies the 17-volume report of findings and recommendations by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), which was presented to him last Thursday. After public hearings that began in January 2019, and with 22 three-week sessions over 871 […]
November 22, 2021 THE Sudanese military announced on Sunday that it would reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok who was removed by a coup in October. Following persistent public protests by the Sudanese people, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he would hold a meeting with Hamdok for him to return to lead a transitional government. […]
October 14, 2021 THE modernisation and expansion of three ports in Egypt, Senegal and Somaliland will improve access to vital goods for 35 million people in Africa, support five million jobs (138,000 of which have already been created) and add $51 billion to the continent’s total trade by 2035, according to the investors in the […]
October 12, 2021 THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has given the go-ahead for widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high malaria transmission. The recommendation is based on results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached […]
October 4, 2021 SPEAKING in New York at the UN General Assembly at the end of September, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo made a strong case for respect for democracy, constitutional rule and human rights by members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). His call came in the midst of another challenge to […]