Political Insight

26/12/2022

Dutch King Says Slavery Apology Start of ‘Long Journey

The Netherlands funded its “Golden Age” of empire and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries by shipping around 600,000 Africans as part of the slave trade, mostly to South America and the Caribbean. Dutch King Willem-Alexander welcomed the government’s apology for the Netherlands’ role in 2...

26/12/2022

Horn of Africa faces most severe drought in more than two generations – UNICEF

© UNICEF/Grace Ekpu A ten-month-old boy is treated for severe malnutrition at a hospital in Puntland, Somalia. The number of children suffering from dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday. A...

26/12/2022

Why Are Black Refugees Treated Differently?

A hundred million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022. The UN continued to help those in need in a myriad of ways, and push for more legal, and safe ways for people to migrate. The 100 million figure, which includes those fleeing conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecutio...

26/12/2022

Shaky Start for DRC Voter Registration

The logistical challenges of holding an election in a such vast country with limited resources as the Democratic Republic of Congo were felt early on as registration opened in the first 10 provinces over the weekend to long lines and undersupplied stations KINSHASA —  Almost 50 million people acr...

25/12/2022

Dutch NGO explain ground-breaking lawsuit against Shell in Nigeria

  In 2008 four farmers, together with Milieudefensie, initiated legal proceedings against the headquarters of Shell in The Hague. Their motivation was oil pollution in the villages Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo in de Niger Delta in Nigeria. The oil spills occurred between 2004 and 2007. In January 20...

25/12/2022

15 years later, Nigerian farmers and their villagers get justice

… as Shell agrees to pays 15 million euros compensation for oil spills in Ogoni. …proceedings took so long that all the original claimants (Barizah Dooh, Chief Oguru, Elder Friday and Alali Efanga) have since died. Four Nigerian farmers and their communities in the Country’s Niger Delta will r...

05/12/2022

From “Unknown Gunmen” to “Unknown Looters”,Something New is Brewing in Nigeria

The reported looting of Osun State Government House in Osogbo, South West Nigeria has been attributed to “unknown looters”. Funke Egbemode, the ex-information commissioner in Gboyega Oyetola’s cabinet said , “unknown men” were behind the looting, She described as “beyond laughable” the...

05/12/2022

UN mission in Mali at Crossroads

The United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire and other nations plan to pull their troops out of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, clouding its future as it undergoes internal review. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts discuss the mission’s challenges and scenarios for what could come next. What is new w...

05/12/2022

Four blood brothers earn PhD same day from same University

05/12/2022

260 pro-democracy protesters jailed in Chad

A Chadian court has handed jail terms ranging from two to three years to 262 pro democracy demonstrators arrested after deadly protests in October. About 401 people had been put on trial in Koro Toro prison, a high-security prison located in the desert 600 kilometres (375 miles) from the capital Ndj...

05/12/2022

“Abracadabra” Nigeria 2023 – Quintus Serenus Sammonicus

By Prince Charles Dickson Ph.D. One cannot eat crab in secret. At the beginning of the year, I had promised that for 12 months, In Shaa Allah, I will once a month X-ray the issues around the forthcoming general elections in the world’s largest black population and sufacracy. This is the grand fina...