New ICC Prosecutor urged to rise to challenge facing court February 18, 2020 THE new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has been urged by human rights bodies to rise to the challenge facing the court when he takes over in June from Fatou Bensouda from The Gambia who is stepping down […]
Former Ugandan child soldier convicted of war crimes February 8, 2021 A Ugandan who was abducted by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) when he was 10 has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Northern Uganda between July 2002 and […]
UK to host first post-Brexit Africa Investment Conference in January January 18, 2021 THE British government will host a virtual Africa Investment Conference on January 20, as the UK starts to independently develop global trade arrangements after exiting the European Union on December 31. In January last year, during the landmark UK-Africa Investment Summit hosted […]
African gas producers poised to take advantage of increased production in 2021 November 27, 2020 ALTHOUGH the global energy sector has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic this year – with oil hardest hit because of its dependence on the struggling transport industry – gas has been less exposed to the shocks of 2020, […]
$5bn fund to tackle global education crisis worsened by Covid-19 October 14, 2020 THE Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has announced a $5 billion funding target for the next five years to tackle the “global education crisis” that has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the peak of school closures earlier in the […]
Thomas Jaye: an illustrious Pan-Africanist and security specialist September 2, 2020 One of the leading lights in Liberia’s security sector reform programme, Dr Thomas Jaye, died recently, aged 63. Adedeji Ebo pays tribute to a man who provided a mine of information about security issues in Africa DEATH is like a cap that we all […]
ALC Fellows making waves globally. August 20, 2020 IN 10 years of its existence, the African Leadership Centre, a joint initiative of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi, has trained and mentored 124 Fellows, 60 per cent of whom are women, from 22 African countries on Master’s and non-degree awarding programmes. “ALC alumni […]
Johnson Sirleaf leads evaluation of global COVID-19 response July 13, 2020 EX-President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is to co-chair, with the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, an independent panel to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 73rd World Health Assembly took the decision in May to establish the […]
WHO urges caution as African countries plan to re-start air travel July 7, 2020 AS African countries prepare to resume commercial flights later this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged governments to take “effective measures” to reduce the risk of a surge in COVID-19 infections as air borders are re-opened. In the early […]
The state of human rights in Africa amid COVID-19 June 22, 2020 Susan Muriungi, the Nairobi-based Africa Regional Director for Protection International, speaks to the ALC Pan-African Radio ALC Pan-African Radio: Human rights questions have been raised about how governments around the world have been using emergency powers to tackle COVID-19. Are such rights in […]