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Results following the vote in the General Assembly on the resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity. Photo: UN Photo/Manuel Elías
AFRICAN UNION

Beyond “Africans sold Africans”: What Ghana’s UN slavery motion demands

Almost immediately after the vote, critics in Ghana and beyond have argued that Africans, having participated in the slave trade, cannot frame it as the gravest crime against…

  • Kofi Bediako
7 min read
Guard jealously: Africa must move at pace with other nations seeking to protect data as a strategic asset. Photo: Dragos Condrea
AFRICA

Africa’s data, the new sovereignty frontier

Data sovereignty refers to the principle that all data is subject to the laws and regulations of the nation state or jurisdiction in which it is collected. This concept gained…

  • Melusi Simelane
6 min read
The Office of Botswana’s Ambassador to the United Nations recently announced that Botswana has nominated renowned jurist and scholar, Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake, to run for Judge of the International Court of Justice
AFRICA

Botswana nominates its finest jurist as judge of International Court of Justice

The Office of Botswana’s Ambassador to the United Nations recently announced that Botswana has nominated renowned jurist and scholar, Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake, to run…

  • Oarabile Mosikare
4 min read