Moncef Marzouki

Amnesty 2023 report: Africa’s ‘limited progress’, ‘grim picture’ in some nations

Amnesty International’s 2023 report titled “State of the World’s Human Rights” says that Africa, on the whole, continues to make progress toward respect for individual rights from speech to political association, though it paints a grim picture of Southern Africa, highlighting troubling abuses in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Africa has shown “limited […]

China expands tariff-free access to African goods

China has announced plans to eliminate tariffs on nearly all imports from 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic ties, extending a previous policy that offered zero-tariff treatment to only 33 least-developed African nations. The announcement was made during a ministerial meeting in China’s city of Changsha, as African leaders gathered to review the […]

Burkina Faso: Military announce the removal of President Kaboré

Uniformed soldiers under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba announced Monday on Burkinabe television that they had overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who took office in 2015 and was sucked into the Sahel turmoil. They announced the end of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré’s powers, the suspension of the National Assembly and the […]