Elections should bring peace, not war. But for the past 15 years, whenever voters in Côte d’Ivoire went to the…
Browsing: Africa in Fact
Defamation and insult laws remain on the books in many countries, but for the most part, the West has abandoned…
One night in April 2013, Luisa, a 46-year-old woman living in a small town in Mozambique, was on her…
Tunisia’s “transitional justice” process, which was set in motion in late 2013 after the 2011 revolution that overthrew the…
Eritrea is a paradox, a country that dips vertiginously from the mountains into the sea, from mellow temperate Asmara,…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, have shaped Sudanese domestic politics and the country’s external…
In September 2015 the Namibian High Court, in the country’s capital Windhoek, found Geoffrey Mwilima, a former opposition parliamentarian, and…
The trial of Hissène Habré, Chad’s former tyrannical ruler, has raised hopes that new systems of so-called hybrid justice can…
Thomas Kwoyelo is the first person to face trial in Uganda for crimes he allegedly committed while fighting for the…
Over the past two decades, a series of interconnected conflicts has blighted the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a…
