Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA)

Malawi's former ruling party - the ironically-named Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) - has a lot to answer for. It should be cravenly apologising for the mess it made of Malawi and working to come up with some decent policies for the elections ahead (or disbanding in shame). Instead, it is trying to drum up support by beating the old drum of homosexuality - hoping that this divisive issue will make Malawians forget the party's past abuses.

What do a lawyer from the attorney general’s office in Angola, the president of the Mozambican Bar Association, the dean of law at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo and a university lecturer from Sao Tome and Principe all have in common other than being from Lusophone Africa? They are all in Maputo, along with another nine people, attending an intensive training course on international criminal justice (ICJ), supported by OSISA as part of its work to capacitate lawyers, judges and prosecutors to participant in ICJ discourse and conduct training of university students.

Just a year ago he was the darling of the donors and the Chairperson of the African Union.

Crackdown intensifies with arbitrary arrest of John Kapito