The arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir issued by the International Criminal Court on 4 March comprehensively overshadowed the golden jubilee of Chinese-Sudanese relations. March...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has secured Singapore's interest in Rwanda's future. Singapore Cooperation Enterprise's Chief Executive Officer, Alphonsus Chia, was in Kigali in February to talk up investment opportunities. This is...

The political crisis in Khartoum after the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has fostered new hopes among the opposition, not least...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir made a long and inflammatory speech at a 16 March ceremony in Khartoum's Green Square. The Sudan Armed Forces, security, militia and...

Oscar King'ara was murdered a day after he had pointed to a cabinet minister and the Kenyan police as being directly responsible for a two-year wave of extrajudicial...

Millions of dollars, hundreds of troops and over two dozen ships from around the world chase pirates off the Somali coast (AC Vol 49 No 24). Yet the...

Ransom payments range from US$500,000 to $3 million. The total since January 2008 is about $50-80 mn. Legal fees for a typical case are around $300,000, plus $100,000...

President Joseph Kabila’s worsening rivalry with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe, is dividing the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD),...

The arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, which the International Criminal Court issued on 4 March, is a landmark event (AC Vol 50 Nos 2...

Kenya’s long-serving Attorney General, Amos Shitswila Wako, has been targeted for special censure by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston, who has...