Moroccan Rabha El Haymar has been awarded US International Women of Courage Award 2024 for her successful efforts made to gain recognition of her traditional marriage to spare her daughter a life of marginalization and discrimination as an undocumented child. Ms. Rabha has navigated her country’s legal system thanks to a recourse provided by Morocco’s […]
Convicted Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, dubbed the “Terminator,” has been transferred from the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) to Belgium to start a 30-year sentence for war crimes. The 49-year-old Ntaganda was convicted by the ICC in 2019 of leading a reign of terror in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the early […]
The number of African countries offering e-visas has risen from 9 in 2016 to 26 in 2024, the latest addition of the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) has revealed, with Benin, The Gambia, Rwanda and the Seychelles ranked the highest in visa openness, with Africans requiring no visas to enter these countries. The 2024 Africa […]
