State Of Emergency
latest news & developments
Botswana faces new HIV scare as shortage of medicines deepens
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
Let’s draw lessons from people’s power on 40th anniversary of State of Emergency
The planned National Dialogue should aim to achieve a resurgence of people’s power so evident in the 1980s resistance to apartheid
‘We will extinguish the fires that are raging’- Ramaphosa
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
Phase Two: looting was just the start say investigators and intelligence
‘A serious military operation is yet to come. Once you disrupt Soweto, you have the attention of the country and the world’
No plans for state of emergency, says security cluster
Police, State Security Agency were not ‘missing in action’, says Minister Ayanda Dlodlo of violence and pillaging sweeping across parts of South Africa
Civil unrest turns deadly in Guinea
Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines
The time to act is now: A letter to African leaders about the Covid-19 crisis
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…
Constitutional rights during disaster
New regulations have a far-reaching impact on people’s rights, but they are finely balanced against people’s Constitutional rights
National Disaster declaration follows confirmation of internal transmission of covid-19
Schools closed, visas revoked, non-essential travel stopped as South African president announces the number of Covid-19 cases has jumped to 61
The death penalty won’t end gender-based violence
Our solutions to the epidemic of men murdering and raping women cannot be grounded in the same hyper-masculine violence they serve to address
Weekly Mail drew a line on censorship
In the 1980s, the apartheid state imposed successive states of emergency, including censorship of the media
Ethiopia’s state of emergency could destabilise the Horn of Africa
Following the resignation of its prime minister, Ethiopia finds itself on the precipice of widespread political unrest.
Leaked SANDF document details powers of ‘control officer’ during state of emergency
On Sunday, Rapport, sister publication of News24, reported that the Presidency had started to compose regulations for a state of emergency.
Inside Emmanuel Macron’s draconian anti-terrorism law
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 declares state of emergency in three states
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has imposed a state of emergency in three states worst hit by increasing violence by Boko Haram extremists.