As tension mounts in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the takeover of a key city by Rwandan-backed rebels, leading to fears of a regional war with international impact, African leaders are ...

US President Donald Trump has said he will cut all future funding to South Africa over allegations that it was confiscating land and ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’. BBC News reports ...

A constitutional crisis looms in Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni has slammed last week’s watershed judgment by Uganda’s highest court finding that courts martial had no jurisdiction over ...

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President John Mahama has taken a significant step toward fulfilling his promise to implement the constitutional review process by establishing a Constitution Review Committee, reports GBC Ghana ...

A Judicial Conduct Tribunal into sexual harassment allegations against Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge is due to begin today. It marks the first time a judge has faced potential ...

Kenyan President William Ruto has acknowledged abuses by Kenya's security forces, in the wake of demonstrations against a recent wave of alleged kidnappings that have sparked outrage in the country, ...

One of SA's most respected lawyers, recently appointed to probe child abuse claims in the Anglican Church of SA, is himself being accused of the sexual abuse of a teenage boy. Advocate Jeremy ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has exposed Angola, Cameroon, Eritrea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tunisia in Africa as leading jailers of journalists in 2024. Malawi24 reports that the CPJ ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that two pieces of legislation – the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act and the Basic Education Laws Amendment (Bela) Act – would be implemented irrespective of ...

As a result of what Zulu King Misuzulu KaZwelithini has called ‘a disintegrated marriage’, he has filed papers to institute divorce action against one of his wives. The papers filed in the High Court ...

Six years after its enactment, Nigeria’s Political Parties Act remains toothless, crippled by the absence of regulations, enabling politicians to evade accountability and transparency, reports The ...