A red marks the face of Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Though genocide survivors would ideally want Kabuga to be prosecuted in Rwanda, it won’t be possible, for legal or political reasons.
Abuses by police and the army point to the need for citizens to be involved in security and other crisis response measures
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Ramaphosa’s call for a new social compact will fall on deaf ears unless there are some fundamental changes to the way in which the pandemic is being managed.
Guillaume Soro’s conviction is seen as an attempt to exclude him from the presidential elections scheduled for late October.
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It remains to be seen whether the former rebel commander and national assembly speaker will accept his situation or fight to capture the presidency.
Lesotho’s embattled prime minister deployed troops onto the streets in April, ostensibly to ‘restore order’.
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South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
Tom Thabane, prime minister of Lesotho, during a recent visit to Ethiopia.
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Power is visibly draining away from Tom Thabane. But, even at 80 years old, he remains a wily operator, and seems determined to cause maximum trouble to secure his immunity from prosecution.
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For the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994, citizens have had to accept stringent restrictions on their normal civil liberties.
Police trying to enforce COVID-19 lockdown regulations outside a shop in Yeoville, Johannesburg.
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Unlike in wealthy nations, lockdowns are simply impossible in overcrowded conditions with no sanitation and high levels of poverty.
South Korea has been the quickest to bring the pandemic under control.
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It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
Soldiers escort a homeless woman to a gathering point in the Johannesburg CBD during the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown.
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The South African National Defence Force has suffered from terrible neglect over the past 25 years of democracy.
Iraqi, Iranian and Somali asylum seekers at a tent camp in the Netherlands.
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The survival resource of the world’s most vulnerable people – their social networks – may become compromised
The Shaik brothers Moe, Schabir and Chippy after Schabir was found guilty of fraud and corruption and sentenced to 15 years.
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Moe Shaik fancies himself as an analyst who can read people well. And yet, he has a rather large blind spot for his leaders – until they fall out with him.
Access to clean water remains a huge problem in Zimbabwe and many other African countries.
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The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
Sudanese protestors celebrate a deal with the ruling generals on a new governing body, in the capital Khartoum, recently.
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The African Union’s staunch support for al-Bashir, cloaked in criticism of the International Criminal Court, denied justice to the millions affected by the conflict in Sudan.
Supporters of Cameroonian President Paul Biya outside the French embassy in Yaounde.
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The African Union’s intervention track record in conflict situations is mixed.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) shakes hands with the opposition coalition leader Raila Odinga to symbolise a truce in March 2018.
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Even in the most tense and dangerous of moments, the elite has found a way to come back together.
Sudan’s ousted President Omar al-Bashir appears in court in Khartoum on December 14, 2019. He was later sentenced to two years in prison for corruption.
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The ICC must not further destroy its credibility by cooperating with the sorts of bad actors who should be before a court themselves.
A statue of Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi, who was killed in 1957.
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The resilient Mau Mau freedom fighters failed to maintain revolutionary action after independence.
Dag Hammarskjöld died along with 15 others when his plane crashed in Zambia.
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Does South Africa have skeletons in the closet over the death of the UN Secretary-General?
Malawi’s President elect Peter Mutharika waves to supporters during the swearing in ceremony in Blantyre in May last year after the contentious poll.
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A new round of elections offers an opportunity to strengthen civil and political freedoms.
Peter Mutharika during his inauguration as the President of Malawi last May. A court has annnulled his election.
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Will the same electoral commission, so heavily criticised in the court’s ruling, improve its capacity and arrange more credible elections?