The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention
The planned National Dialogue should aim to achieve a resurgence of people’s power so evident in the 1980s resistance to apartheid
There will be no state of emergency, but authorities are working to bring instigators of the week’s violence to book, the president said on Friday night
‘A serious military operation is yet to come. Once you disrupt Soweto, you have the attention of the country and the world’
Police, State Security Agency were not ‘missing in action’, says Minister Ayanda Dlodlo of violence and pillaging sweeping across parts of South Africa
Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines
The dearth of political will and the extractive practices of external actors can no longer be used as an excuse for inaction. We no longer have a choice; we need a radical change…
New regulations have a far-reaching impact on people’s rights, but they are finely balanced against people’s Constitutional rights
Schools closed, visas revoked, non-essential travel stopped as South African president announces the number of Covid-19 cases has jumped to 61
Our solutions to the epidemic of men murdering and raping women cannot be grounded in the same hyper-masculine violence they serve to address
In the 1980s, the apartheid state imposed successive states of emergency, including censorship of the media
Following the resignation of its prime minister, Ethiopia finds itself on the precipice of widespread political unrest.
On Sunday, Rapport, sister publication of News24, reported that the Presidency had started to compose regulations for a state of emergency.
France has been under a state of emergency for nearly two years and the president now wants to make certain controversial elements permanent law
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has imposed a state of emergency in three states worst hit by increasing violence by Boko Haram extremists.
Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki has extended the country’s state of emergency through to January after a recent series of attacks by extremists.
Gunmen have attacked a police station in Nigeria, killing a teenager and wounding an officer in the first such incident during its state of emergency.
Judge President of the Land Claims Court, Fikile Bam, has died at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg.
Namibia’s president on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in northern parts of the country after heavy flooding displaced nearly 10 000 people.
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Tuesday and gave the army control of public order.
