During our last trip to Kenya on the Georges Tadonki trial, I had the opportunity to develop an association with the lawyer Evans Monari of Daly & Figgis Advocates (photo – center), who is one of the best known business and human rights lawyers in East Africa. Below is an article Evans has contributed for the RobertAmsterdam.com [...]
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the first of Zimbabwe’s new independent newspapers could be on the streets as early as this Sunday after media groups were finally granted licenses last week. Sixteen months after the launch of the power-sharing government, the Zimbabwe Media Commission gave five groups permission to operate. Its action came after months [...]
The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart has written an intriguingarticle on the proposed law in Uganda that would criminalize homosexuality, an issue this blogger has discussed here on the blog and in conversations with one of the leading international opposers to the bill, British MP Peter Tatchell. A commission created by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has [...]
The treasurer general of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Roy Bennett, a longtime opponent of President Robert Mugabe, was acquitted yesterday of all charges, including terrorism, his lawyer said. Judge Chinembiri Bhunu found Bennett not guilty of all charges: banditry, sabotage, terrorism and insurgency. “He is now a free man,” lawyer [...]
For almost a decade, the US, EU, UK, Canada and Australia have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, for a continued lack of democratic progression occurring from the former breadbasket of Africa. Only recently have we seen the beginnings of perhaps a sustainable institutional infrastructure, ushered in by Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. On April 21 Mr. [...]
More than a hundred British Members of Parliament have condemned Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which could equate to the death penalty for those Ugandans who engage in homosexual acts. The 118 MPs have signed what is known as an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the UK Parliament, urging the scrapping of the Bill. The EDM, drafted by east London [...]
It appears as though Ghana will retain 38% of its domestic oil revenue, an advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Joe Amoako-Tuffuor has stated, quoting a Daily Graphic report from March 6, 2010. The newspaper cited a recent presentation Amoako-Tuffuor made, wherein he noted that Ghana will earn from direct and indirect sources [...]
It has been a difficult month for the Tories across the pond in Britain – talk of internal divisions and doubts over their economic policy make question time fun to watch again. Now is the time for a positive PR campaign, some votes for the blue boys. The Guardian gets proper credit for reporting this one [...]
Two years after the violence that devastated Kenya, the country shuffles forward on a razor’s edge. Very soon, the International Criminal Court will decide whether to allow prosecutors to open investigations in to those believed to be responsible for mass expulsions and killings following a controversial election. This occurs parallel to the uncoordinated political agenda [...]
Marian Tupy is a policy analyst at the CATO Institute in Washington DC with a unique interest in Zimbabwean affairs. He, along with many of our readers and indeed writers, was horrified while watching images emanating from Zimbabwe covering the cholera outbreak, and was baffled as to why it wasn’t nipped in the bud at [...]
