Comment & analysis

The list of Barack Obama’s crimes is a long one, but one of the worst is his refusal to even attempt a dismantling of the mass incarceration state in America. In criminal justice as in other issues, Obama fakes left while actually moving to the right.

The Protocol guarantees comprehensive rights to women and provides a formidable legal framework to address the violence and discrimination against them. It was informed by African realities and negotiated by Africans for Africans.

Kenyans are obsessed with politics — and love talking about it, almost all the time. The media are obsessed about politics, devoting most of their coverage to politics and politicians. Nearly 100 per cent of op-ed pieces deal with politics (including, I have to confess, most of mine).

African governments lose billions of dollars in revenues each year through illicit financial flows. Dishonest companies use offshore accounts, trade mispricing and tax avoidance to pump out money that should be meeting the continent’s needs – including its huge unmet need for modern energy.

In the middle of this month, I read three sets of papers that told the same story – do not fight terrorism with terrorist methods.

I am ashamed of the inconceivable act of transgression that happened in multiple forms when at the Carnival in Swakopmund some dressed in costumes of the Ku-Klux-Klan; the German “Allgemeine Zeitung” pictured these as an attire of “originality”.

On Friday night 3 July, three more women fell prey to Glebelands warlord. After threatening letters stating “If you want to die, stay in your room,” were shoved under their doors, they were shot at and forced from their rooms in Blocks 45 and 48.

This report is produced as part of Mathare Social Justice Centre’s (MSJC) campaign to ‘Stop Extra-judicial Killings’ in Mathare and Nairobi environs. This campaign has both a practical and participatory action research component.

2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were scheduled to reach certain objectives in the reduction of poverty and the improvement of living standards in so-called developing countries.

This article is a response to Eric Chanda, president of Fourth Revolution Party (4R), who is ardent at opposing the inclusion of dual citizenship into the Zambian Constitution. On June 16, 2015, Mr.