Given the grey area between policy and operations, transparency on the police minister’s directions to SAPS should be required. Inappropriate political interference in the police and other criminal justice agencies has been a recurring concern in South Africa for many years. Allegations against suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu are now being examined by both the…
A Georgia judge has dismissed the sprawling 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump, ending the final effort to prosecute the president for allegedly attempting to overturn his loss to Joe Biden. Peter Skandalakis, who took over the case after the initial prosecutor’s removal, asked Judge Scott McAfee to dismiss the charges on Wednesday. Trump’s…
Sarah Rainsford, Eastern and Southern Europe correspondentIn Chisinau and Paul KirbyEurope digital editor in London Anadolu via Getty Images Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned voters their democracy was young and fragile and Russia endangered it The pro-European party of Moldovan President Maia Sandu is heading for victory and a new majority in parliament in elections…
