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June 15

  • South Africa: Understanding the Tshwane Principles [analysis]

    The Tshwane Principles on National Security and the Right to Information set out in unprecedented detail guidelines for those engaged in drafting, revising or implementing laws or... Read more »



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June 11

  • Namibia: Police to End Invasions of San Land [analysis]

    Sometimes it pays for communities to cry out in desperation. It has certainly paid off for the !Kung in Namibia's western Tsumkwe region, who issued a desperate plea last week for... Read more »

  • Zambia: Homophobic Trial Starts in Zambia [analysis]

    Many eyes in Zambia - and further afield - will be focussed on the Kapiri Mposhi Magistrates' court over the next two days. While two young men will be on trial for being gay,... Read more »



June 8

  • Angola: 'Ghost Town' Still Haunting Government [analysis]

    The size of the Nova Cidade de Kilamba, the Chinese built housing development outside Angola's capital Luanda, was as important as the construction itself. The US$3.5billion estate... Read more »

  • Namibia: Land Grabs Threaten San in Namibia [analysis]

    Just weeks after a critical UN report on the status of indigenous people in Namibia, the scale of the government's failure to promote and protect their rights has been highlighted... Read more »



June 6

  • Zambia: High Court to Hear HIV Activist Case [analysis]

    The Lusaka Magistrate's Court ruled today that the criminal case against HIV activist Paul Kasonkomona should be transferred to the High Court for a hearing on the constitutional... Read more »



June 5



June 4

  • Angola: Silence After Angolan Corruption Report [analysis]

    It has been a month since the release of a damning report into a massively corrupt Angola-Russia debt deal. A month since it explained in forensic detail how more than US$700... Read more »

  • Angola: Singing Out in Angola [analysis]

    Titica is one of Angola's most popular Kuduro singers and received a 2012 Kora nomination for best female artist in Southern Africa. She is also a regular guest on state... Read more »

  • Swaziland: Supreme Court Orders Eviction of 150 People [analysis]

    Swazis have long known that there is one law for King Mswati and his cronies and another for everyone else - and this has just been brutally confirmed by a Supreme Court ruling... Read more »



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