African Union

International law needs to move beyond legal recognition of the wrongfulness of chattel enslavement and the trade in enslaved people, toward repair and remedy.

AI governance in Africa is reproducing extraction dynamics at a continental scale through the guise of development.

With the possibility of renewed fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, reminders of the toll and recommendations for the world to take preventive action.

While AICHR has succeeded in creating a regional platform for norm-setting, its reliance on non-binding procedures has limited its effectiveness in delivering protection.

If the Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group is to succeed, the United States must anchor its offerings in rules-based governance.

A confluence of factors threatens to reignite the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, exacerbating displacement and human suffering, and destabilizing the entire region.

The South Sudan government should be held strictly to its commitment to establish and politically support new truth commission legislation.

International courts must respect international law, also in dire times. The International Criminal Court’s denial of immunity to heads of third States does not.

A new protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights obligates governments to ensure the fundamental rights of older people.

The landmark African Union case over an Ethiopian election provides a roadmap for safeguarding democracy in the face of authoritarianism.

It may aid stability as US and European support tips toward Morocco. But it has provoked Algeria, which is eyeing Russia and China.

Unless parties are willing to come to the table, there is no pathway from war toward restoring civilian rule and a democratic transition.