Israel scoffs at South Africa’s allegations of genocide in Gaza in case filed at ICC as ‘blood libel’
South Africa asked The Hague-based court to issue an interim order for Israel to immediately suspend its military operations in Gaza. A hearing into the request is likely in the coming days or weeks. The case, if it goes ahead, will take years, but an interim order could be issued within weeks.
Trump foes in GOP hope US Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ ban will keep him off 2024 ballot
Passed after the US Civil War, Section 3 bars anyone from holding public office if they engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” after previously swearing an oath in support of the United States.
200 people killed as fighting rages between Israeli forces and Hamas in Khan Younis, Gaza
Nearly all of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes at least once and many are on the move again, often reduced to taking shelter in makeshift tents or huddled under tarpaulins and plastic sheets on open ground.
Election observers flag ‘massive irregularities’ as Congo rules out re-run, opposition plan protests
The team of Moise Katumbi, one of Tshisekedi’s main challengers, has ruled out using legal channels to contest results, asserting that state institutions were committed to tipping the vote in the president’s favour. The CENI denies this.
South African playwright and creator of Sarafina! Mbongeni Ngema, 68, killed in a car crash
Ngema was killed in a head-on accident while returning from a funeral in a rural town in Eastern Cape Province, the family said in a statement on Wednesday. The celebrated playwright was a passenger in the vehicle.
So inefficient is Uganda government that the president has the luxury to decide when you can die on Kampala-Jinja Road
It is the president who decides whether or not Jinja-Kampala Road, which has become a principal killer road, to be or not be made passable.
Kenya’s economy grows by 5.9 per cent as inflation eases to 6.6 per cent in December
The East African country’s economy has been among the fastest-growing on the continent in recent years, but a heavy debt load and a weakening currency have emerged as potential problems.
Vatican greenlight to Catholic priests to bless gay unions elicits strong rejection in Africa
Pope Francis has hit back against the criticism and what he called inflexible ideological positions that hinder the Church from moving forward. But in many African countries, such as the continent’s most populous one, Nigeria, even having a same-sex relationship is outlawed and often punishable by long jail terms.
Uganda urgently needs pragmatic economics as Museveni’s idea of wealth creation is a fleeting daydream
Unfortunately, this is turning Uganda into a potentially and actually security and peace poor or deficient country well into the future. One consequence, yet to rear its head, will be destruction of what we now call islands of development, transformation and progress.
Academia, academics are in a flux at African universities as mediocrity outpaces meritocracy
Hierarchical teaching and learning become a thing of the past and all become teachers and learners when they interact, not in classrooms or lecture theatres, but in teams. That way universities start to produce graduates who are more of independent thinkers who can see alternative views as sources of new ideas rather than opposition.