To coincide with an African Union (AU) meeting on the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC), we publish the first responses to our debate on the Court and why human rights NGOs often appear to pick on African personalities and causes that are disliked by Western governments. In other words, why don’t we see human rights NGOs campaigning for the prosecution of Africans seen as the “darlings of the West” even if they commit the same human rights violations as the Africans disliked by the West? A typical example are the leaders of Rwanda and Uganda whose military adventures in DRCongo from 1996 to 2003 and their disastrous aftermath has led to the death of an estimated five million people in Congo. More...

A tiny rocky island situated just where Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania meet in Lake Victoria has become a bone of contention between Kenya and Uganda. “The island is in Kenya but the water is in Uganda. They want to fish here, but this is Uganda,” says Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni. But old colonial maps say otherwise. Wanjohi Kabukuru reports. More...

Do you know who brought Tony Blair and Muammar AlGathafi together, after years of intense Western animosity towards Libya? Read the answer here. Our correspondent, Lansana Gberie, interviewed Sierra Leone’s former President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah for his new book, Rescuing a Fragile State: Sierra Leone 2002-2008. More...