Entries tagged with “Chad”
Issues
Dec 28, 2022
Zambia Becomes 25th Sub-Saharan African Nation to Abolish Death Penalty
Fulfilling a pledge made while campaigning for office, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on December 23, 2022 signed legislation abolishing the nation’s death penalty (pictured). Zambia’s repeal of its colonial-era capital punishment law made it the 25th sub-Saharan nation in Africa to abolish the death penalty. The new law also removed the offense of criminal defamation of the President from Zambia’s penal code. In announcing the repeals, President Hichilema tweeted: “Promised to amend…
Issues
Sep 20, 2022
Equatorial Guinea Becomes 25th African Country to Abolish Death Penalty
Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, becoming the 25th African nation to end capital punishment and the fourth in the past two years. According to state television reports, on September 19, 2022, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signed into law a new criminal code that removes the death penalty from the statute books of the central African nation of 1.3 million people on the continent’s Atlantic coast. The new law is considered a major reform for one of the world’s most…