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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mozambique President Daniel Chapo last week took the oath of office in front of a heavily guarded audience of dignitaries in Maputo following weeks of violent demonstrations over the fiercely disputed ...

This work examines the challenges rural women face in navigating SA's legal system. High litigation costs, travel distances and alien procedures hinder access to formal courts, while traditional ...

Ahmed Kouchouk, Egypt’s Finance Minister, has announced that a simplified tax system designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), entrepreneurs and professionals will soon be ...

Nigeria has hiked mobile tariffs by up to 50%, the first increase in over a decade following lobbying efforts from MTN amid currency pressures and elevated inflation. Fin24 reports that the Nigerian ...