20 March 2021
Niger: Mahamadou Issoufou, who is about to hand over presidential power to his elected successor, has been awarded the 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. He has respected the two term-limit. But he hasn’t strengthened democracy and human rights. “(H)is regime has had a heavy-handed reaction to dissent.” He shouldn’t have been awarded the prize.
https://theconversation.com/why-its-a-big-surprise-that-the-african-leadership-prize-went-to-nigers-issoufou-157291
19 March 2021
Tanzania: Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in by the Chief Justice at State House in Dar es Salaam to become the country’s sixth and first female president. Her predecessor John Magufuli who died on Wednesday will be buried on 25 March in his western home village of Chato.
BBC Africa Live 19 March 2021. 7:22 resp. 8:22
South Sudan: With levels of violence growing in recent months and civilians being killed or displaced, UN human rights experts in February asked the country to bring those who had committed atrocities to justice. Human Rights Watch now added its voice to call for the AU-backed hybrid court that South Sudan had in January promised to establish.
BBC Africa Live 19 March 2021. 10:39