South Africa: a time to worry
Spare a thought for South African journalists, reduced to peering into murk and gun smoke for...
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Category: AIF Issue 35
Nigeria: delays and distractions
One of Nigeria’s most dramatic episodes of judicial corruption happened in January 2013. The...
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Côte d’Ivoire: war crimes and elections
Elections should bring peace, not war. But for the past 15 years, whenever voters in Côte d’Ivoire...
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Southern Africa: defamation and insult
Defamation and insult laws remain on the books in many countries, but for the most part, the West...
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Mozambique’s gender-based violence laws
One night in April 2013, Luisa, a 46-year-old woman living in a small town in Mozambique,...
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Tunisia: transitional justice
Tunisia’s “transitional justice” process, which was set in motion in late 2013 after the...
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Egypt: worse than before?
Since president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi took power in Egypt in May 2014, critics have accused...
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Eritrea: dictatorship and terror
Eritrea is a paradox, a country that dips vertiginously from the mountains into the sea,...
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Sudan: playing the anti-Western card
The International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, have...
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Namibia: justice delayed
In September 2015 the Namibian High Court, in the country’s capital Windhoek, found Geoffrey...
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Senegal: universal jurisdiction
The trial of Hissène Habré, Chad’s former tyrannical ruler, has raised hopes that new systems of...
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Uganda: justice in transition
Thomas Kwoyelo is the first person to face trial in Uganda for crimes he allegedly committed while...
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