Determined – and brave – staff at Uganda’s Makerere University law school have done it again: they have incorporated a current ‘hot’ Ugandan human rights issue into an examination written last week. While it is common practice in many countries …Share...
Prominent Eswatini lawyer, Mangaliso Magagula, faces a personal D-Day: he has been charged with contempt of court by high court judge Titus Mlangeni who said the evidence indicated, on the face of it, that Magagula had committed contempt by undermining …Share...
Tensions continue to build in Uganda, where the government and the army are still ignoring the supreme court judgment of more than two weeks ago. This landmark decision nullifies trials of civilians in military courts, ordering that all civilians still …Share...
A constitutional crisis looms in Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni has slammed last week’s watershed judgment by the country’s highest court. The judges found that courts martial had no jurisdiction over civilians and that all such trials had to stop...
In an extraordinary judgment, the highest court in Eswatini has come out strongly supporting human rights and against the kingdom’s police chief. The stance taken by the supreme court in this decision is almost unheard of in that country, particularly …Share...
