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Two ex-presidents try to boot a judge from an apartheid probe. Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki filed separate legal bids to remove Justice Sisi Khampepe. She chairs the commission investigating stalled prosecutions of apartheid era crimes. Both men claim she cannot be impartial due to past roles...

Pop star wrecks car, gets forced vacation. South African singer Makhadzi crashed her vehicle on New Year's Eve, traveling from Limpopo to Johannesburg. The musician suffered injuries requiring hospital treatment but is now stable at home. Doctors ordered a strict ten-week rest period with no...

Politician number five thousand says he'll save the country. National Assembly member Bakary Badjie launched the United Gambian Front in Brikama. He called the party a necessary tool for national liberation and restoring dignity. Badjie stated this move was an obligation, not a choice, for...

Cops are swarming a beach to stop migrant boats. Gambian police launched a big joint operation along the Jinack coastal area. They want to prevent dangerous sea crossings and break up smuggling networks. Multiple security agencies teamed up for this intelligence-driven mission. Forces included...

Cops bag a Norwegian in a Gambian drug sweep. The Drug Law Enforcement Agency arrested multiple people, including a Norwegian national. Gavanes Kalathar Ganesan was caught with suspected cocaine hidden in bags. Another man was arrested with crack cocaine stones wrapped in old newspaper. Several...

This farmer actually learned useful stuff online for once. A young Gambian in the North Bank Region uses social media to study modern agriculture. Alagie Jarjue focuses on agroforestry and vegetable farming on his sizable plot. He adopts techniques like drip irrigation to save water and labor...

Teachers are done waiting for paychecks. A group of over a thousand unpaid educators in Ghana just threatened massive protests and lawsuits. Their salaries are over a year late, and some are missing twelve to fifteen months. The Ghana Coalition of Unpaid Teachers also wants their official ID...

Flag raising in London sparks political drama. The Palestinian ambassador hoisted his country's flag over a new embassy there. This followed Britain's official recognition of Palestinian statehood. Ambassador Husam Zomlot called it a historic shift toward sovereignty during the Hammersmith...

Maduro calls himself a prisoner of war in the NYC court. The former Venezuelan leader and his wife pleaded not guilty to drug and weapon charges. U.S. forces captured them in Caracas over the weekend, bringing them to New York for arraignment. He faces accusations of narco terrorism conspiracy...

Junta throws a bone with prisoner pardon during ongoing crisis. Myanmar's military ruler freed over six thousand inmates and some foreign nationals. This happened on the country's independence anniversary, calling it a humanitarian gesture. About six hundred were jailed under a law banning...

Cops are absolutely crushing opposition rallies in Uganda. Amnesty International dropped a report detailing security forces using wild excessive force. They targeted events in Kawempe and Iganga with tear gas, beatings, and arbitrary arrests. Officers even used attack dogs and rifles as clubs to...

Another day, another law firm poach. Quinn Emanuel just grabbed litigator William Charles for its London office. He comes over from Milbank, where he was a partner for six years. Before that, he spent eight years at Slaughter and May. His thing is big-ticket commercial fights and regulatory...

Law firm promotes a crowd right before a huge merger. Hogan Lovells just promoted 28 lawyers to partner. This matches their promotion count for the last two years. Almost half are women, but that ratio dipped a little from last time. They also moved 53 people up to counsel. Most new partners...

Boutique law shop nabs big firm partner again. Humphries Kerstetter just picked up Matthew Scully from Clifford Chance. He is a litigation partner with over twenty-five years of experience in messy corporate fights. His resume includes banking lawsuits, fraud cases, and antitrust battles. The...

Big law firm raids competitor, film at 11. Latham and Watkins just snatched three finance partners from A and O Shearman for its London office. The hires are David Oppenheimer, David Varne, and Lucy Oddy. They focus on real estate and structured finance for big clients like lenders and private...

Legal org boss dies, actually did stuff for once. Frederick Krebs died at 76 after dealing with kidney cancer. He ran the Association of Corporate Counsel for twenty years. The guy took it from a small group to a huge global thing. Membership exploded under him from under 8,000 to over 25,000...

Law firm partner promotions show a slide in gender parity this year. Hausfeld made five lawyers partners, but only two are women, down from four in the last round. The new partners are Stella Gartagani in London, Karl-Christoph von Steuben and Christoph Schubert in Germany, plus Ashley Crooks...

Lawyers are ditching big firms to go solo right now. Three heavy hitters, Alex Bevan, Paul Friedland, and Charles Adams, all left their partnerships this month to hang their own shingles as arbitrators and counsel. This is a clear power move in the legal world. Bevan left A&O Shearman, where he...

Biglaw drama drops as a firm raids another right before a mega merger. Paul Hastings just snagged two regulatory heavyweights, Lynn Mehler and Phil Katz, from Hogan Lovells for its D.C. life sciences team. This happens as Hogan Lovells plans its huge combination with Cadwalader. Mehler will...

Zimbabwe just got a seat at the continent's AI strategy table. The country's ICT Minister, Tatenda Mavetera, joined the new Africa AI Council. This group operates under the Smart Africa initiative. The council is a high-level body formed by Rwandan President Paul Kagame. It includes African...