Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested for crimes against humanity – a blow against impunity: The arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, who served as president of the Philippines between 2016 and 2022, for crimes against humanity for his part in the country’s violent “war on drugs” is a welcome blow against impunity. Duterte was arrested on March …
Ali Hassan Mwinyi: the Tanzanian former president who oversaw the transition to market economy: Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania’s second president who has died aged 98, pushed through tough economic and political reforms that transformed the East Africa nation from socialism to an open economy and a multi-party democracy. He was president from 1985 to 1995. …
The two faces of Jacob Zuma – former South African president campaigns to unseat the ANC he once led. Who supports him and why?: Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s political comeback builds on support from marginalised and angry constituencies within or close to the governing African National Congress (ANC). His vengeful but “loyal” rebellion …
A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel’s final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell: In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a …
Theresa Kufuor: Ghana’s former first lady was a quiet and unobtrusive champion of change: Flags have been flying at half mast in Ghana in tribute to Theresa Kufuor, the wife of John Agyekum Kufuor, president of Ghana from 2000 to 2008. Born Theresa Mensah, the former first lady passed away on 1 October at the …
Former MTN Top Executive’s Unrelenting Quest for Justice Six-Years After: Telecommunications giant MTN is currently embroiled in a protracted legal battle with a former top executive Mr. Ahmad Farroukh over the non-payment of his severance package. The burgeoning legal battle with MTN, which still lingers more than six-years after he had exited the company is …
Colombia: former Farc fighters who signed 2016 peace deal now live amid threats and assassinations: Former members of the Farc guerrilla army in Colombia who laid down their arms as part of a peace deal in 2016 are being forced off the land they were allowed to settle after they demobilised. More than 200 families …
Boris Johnson: freed from the constraints of office, the former prime minister could be even more dangerous: The House of Commons committee of privileges has published its long awaited report on the conduct of Boris Johnson and the conclusions are damming. If Mr Johnson were still a Member he should be suspended from the service …
‘They just ignored my tears, they ignored my unhappiness’: former Irish nuns reveal accounts of brainwashing and abuse: Shutterstock/Thoom Any thoughts of escaping to a more natural life was regarded as being sinful. The idea of being unfaithful to your vocation was a step on the way to hell. It would be a mortal sin. …
Corruption in South Africa: former CEO’s explosive book exposes how state power utility was destroyed: Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter. PenguinRandomHouse One repeated theme of the memoir Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s troubled power utility, Eskom, is that “negligence and carelessness had …
Explosive revelations about South Africa’s power utility: why new electricity minister should heed the words of former Eskom CEO: The entrance to South Africa's coal-fired Tutuka power plant operated by Eskom. Marco LongarI/AFP via Getty Images A month ago South Africans heard some hard truths about the state of the power utility, Eskom, from the …
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Theresa May (and soon Nicola Sturgeon): the strange backbench lives of former national leaders: UK Parliament/Flickr, CC BY-NC Former prime ministers are currently making a habit of intervening in government policy. Boris Johnson deployed sources to urge current prime minister Rishi Sunak not to abandon his Brexit policies and to send …
‘Uncomfortable heritage’: how cities are repurposing former slaughterhouses: Smithfield meat market. Cedric Weber In the second half of 2022, the Museum of London threw a five-month-long leaving do in anticipation of departing from its home of nearly 50 years. The museum has been housed in London Wall, on the Barbican estate in central London, since …
Henry Kissinger at 100: history will judge the former US secretary of state’s southern African interventions to be a failure: Former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Henry Kissinger, who sexed up the art of diplomacy in the eight years between 1969 and 1977, will turn 100 in …
Beirut port disaster: former Lebanon prime minister charged with homicide: The investigation into the Beirut port explosion has taken a new turn, with the judge overseeing the probe charging a former prime minister and two other former ministers with homicide with probable intent. The explosion in August 2020, which happened in a massive silo in …
Dominic Ongwen: how the case of a former child soldier exposed weaknesses in international criminal law: Guilt and innocence are rarely clear-cut, even in the most heinous of crimes. The recent appeal of Dominic Ongwen, former commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), shines a light on the complexity of defence in international criminal law. …
Police officer resignations have risen by 72% in the last year – we asked former officers why: Brian A Jackson / Shutterstock Policing has long been known as a “job for life”. With low rates of leaving and high rates of loyalty, a career of 30 years or more was very much the norm. However, …
Tavistock Clinic fallout: what the courts would consider in a litigation by former patients: Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young people, now seem set to be examined by the courts in clinical negligence claims brought by …