During late 2012 and early 2013, there have been numerous legal threats brewing across Africa, in respect of homosexuality. This cannot be ignored, particularly by businesses, as the growing international trend, particularly in Europe and the US, is to prevent discrimination along the lines of gender, race, or sexual orientation. However many business forget that …
Over the last few months Renamo (the opposition party and former rebel movement), has alongside creating instability through small pockets of violence, displayed a more heated rhetoric around its willingness to return to war if its demands around its political participation are not met. This has been marked by the return of party’s leader Afonso …
Burundi’s President, Pierre Nkurunziza, has approved a new media law that sets out new press protocol and threatens freedom of speech in the country. This new piece of legislation was approved last week after it was passed by the House of Representatives and Senate earlier in April 2013. The law restricts the right of journalists …
Reports have started to surface of yet another militant threat that has emerged in Nigeria, which claims to be trained by Al Qaeda and specifically targets Westerners. The group known as Ansaru is said to have split from Boko Haram in January 2012 – the dominant Nigerian extremist group responsible for almost weekly shootings and …
Former president Rupiah Banda was arrested by the Government Joint Investigative Team (GJIT) in late March 2013, charged with corruption and later stripped of his presidential immunity, allowing for further investigations into charges against him. According to Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba’s statement to Parliament at the time, Banda’s “government diverted money from the sale of …
Sources have indicated that the police in Malawi have arrested 11-ex ministers and senior government officials for an alleged coup plot to overthrow current President Joyce Banda. This group of coup plotters are said to have tried last year already to prevent Banda from becoming president after the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika. Notably, …
In an interview with I-Net Bridge during the middle of February 2013, President Ian Khama of Botswana said labour militancy in South Africa and port congestion at Durban Harbour is putting bilateral trade, between Botswana and South Africa, in jeopardy. A three-week wage strike by transport workers in September and October 2012 greatly slowed down …
What is clear is that Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is ready to challenge the incumbent President Jacob Zuma as Motlanthe has accepted candidacy to run for president. Motlanthe has also indicated that he will run for the position of Deputy President along with businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, current ANC Treasurer General, Mathews Phosa, and Human Settlements …
17 September 2012 marks the one year anniversary of the signing of Madagascar’s groundbreaking Roadmap, through which the current President of the Transition, Andry Rajoelina, bowed to international pressure and agreed to allow for the unconditional return of his exiled predecessor, former president Marc Ravalomanana. One year on, this Indian Ocean Island has made little …
In light of mounting evidence that Rwanda is supporting armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in particular the so-called M23 movement in the east, the United States (US) announced that it has cut this year’s planned Foreign Military Financing (FMF) assistance of some US$200 000 to the country. While the actual amount …