BAA Required to Sell Stansted Airport Followed By Edinburgh Or Glasgow Airport

BAA will be required to sell Stansted Airport followed by Edinburgh or Glasgow Airport, the Competition Commission (CC) has confirmed.

South African Cabinet Approves Draft Judges’ Remuneration And Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill

The South African Cabinet has approved the the draft Judges’ Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill, 2011.

Zimbabwe Court Orders Poll Re-run for Parliamentary Speaker

Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo was irregularly elected and ordered fresh polls to choose the House of Assembly’s top official.

Liberian Supreme Court Squashes Truth And Reconciliation Commission Ban on Politicians

The Controversial 30 year ban from politics imposed on Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and a number of politicians and individuals by the now dissolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), for their alleged roles in the country’s atrocious...

State of Emergency Partially Lifted in Guinea

The Prime Minister of the Transition in Guinea, Jean Marie Dore, has ordered the partial lifting of the state of emergency and partial opening of the country’s borders, in a move aimed at comforting citizens who have lately been subjected to drastic...

The Waiting Game in Guinea

With military authorities having declared a state of emergency, Guineans face an anxious waiting period before confirmation of final results from the November 7th presidential elections by the Supreme Court.

Asking the Wrong Question

The title of Michael Tomasky’s piece for the new (December 9) issue of The New York Review of Books is “Can Obama Rise Again?”  His analysis of the decline of Barack Obama’s popularity and effectiveness is cast in a critical examination of two...

Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court Throws Out Minister’s Appeal Against Prolonged Detention

Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has thrown out a case in which Finance Minister Tendai Biti was suing the police for prolonged detention two years ago.

White Farmers in Zimbabwe Seek Supreme Court Intervention in Land Dispute

Zimbabwe’s white farmers have applied to the country’s Supreme Court for an order granting a moratorium on ongoing evictions from farms expropriated by the government and preventing further acquisition of equipment and materials, the Commercial Farmers...