Safeguarding within the Church and in theInstitutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life(ICLSAL) is about authentic authority rooted in responsibility, accountability and transparency, and not about “importing secular governance into the Church”, African Catholic Sisters in the legal profession have been told.
Author: Chris Anu
There is perhaps no political phrase more symbolic of Paul Biya’s four decades in power than the famous expression attributed to him: “Na Caterpillar go move me for ya.” In plain English, the message was unmistakable: only a bulldozer could remove him from office. For years, that statement became more than a joke. It became the governing philosophy of a political system where retirement seemed optional, succession was taboo, and public office was treated less as a constitutional responsibility than a lifetime possession. Today, Cameroon finds itself confronting the irony of that statement. President Biya has now spent weeks away…
Catholic Sisters serving in the legal profession across Africa have been told that sound knowledge of canon and civil law is key to their prophetic witness and responsible stewardship in the Church.
There are moments in the life of a people when history draws a clear line. Once that line is crossed, there is no honest way of pretending that the line didn’t exist. The Southern Cameroons crossed such a line on October 1, 2017. Whether one supports the declaration of independence or opposes it, whether one identifies as an independentist, a federalist, or a unionist, no serious observer can deny that 2017 fundamentally altered the political trajectory of the Southern Cameroons. It marked the culmination of a political process that had begun decades earlier. That is precisely why the recent calls…
South Africa’s Cabinet has welcomed the African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) approval of US$13 million in emergency grants to strengthen the response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda and South Sudan.
CommentaryOpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay AI-enabled weapons that select and engage targets on their own are already in the field, and international law has not settled who answers when they kill the wrong person.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday called American democracy “very fragile” and said no person or group “should have too much power,” while observing that young people need to study an unvarnished version of the nation’s history.
Africa’s vast reserves of critical minerals are attracting growing global interest, placing the continent at the centre of discussions on mining investment, technology and restry leaders will gather at African Mining Week (AMW) 2026 to examine the policies, technologies and geopolitical developments shaping the future of mining across Africa
Legal education will be modernised and Kerala will be turned into a hub of higher education, Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan has said.
The increasing mobility of individuals across national borders has transformed family law into one of the most dynamic areas of private international law. The significant rise in cross-border marriages involving foreign nationals, Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) has inevitably led to an increase in matrimonial disputes spanning multiple jurisdictions. Whether a…
