By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu LESS THAN a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague could easily have been mistaken for a committee meeting of leaders of the African Union. One of its long-term guests was Laurent Gbagbo, a former president of Côte d’Ivoire. […]
By Elmuntasir Ahmed Historical Context: IN SUDAN, there’s a lot that’s led to crisis over the years: famine, land and water issues; they all stem from deep-seated factors that are made worse by civil conflict and disputes in the region. This is also compounded by involvement of international financial institutions such as International Monetar...
By Paul Ejime POLITICALLY SPEAKING, India is the World’s largest democracy with a voter population of 969 million from the more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It towers above South Africa, which has less than 62 million people, and about 28 million registered voters. The Asian giant is also the World’s fifth-largest economy, while Africa’...
By Randy J. Sa-ah IN OUR article released on April 23rd, titled “Revealing Shadows: The African Union Commission’s Unlawful Suspension of AFCONE’s Executive Secretary,” we made a solemn commitment. We pledged to conduct a comprehensive investigation spanning twelve articles, each meticulously exploring the various facets and reperc...
By Randy J. Sa-ah IN AN APRIL 2024 investigative report titled “Inquiry into AU Collaboration with Member Institutions in Africa: The Case of AFCONE,” the Congolese investigative reporter Freddy Mayombo shed light on the unlawful suspension of the Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy Secretariat by the Ch...
