The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in Trump v. Barbara. The Court will decide a case that reaches far beyond the usual debates over immigration policy. President Trump aims to withhold birthright citizenship from certain children born on US soil, based solely on their parents’ immigration status. Ultimately, the Court will [...]

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the federal government’s practice of turning away asylum-seekers at ports of entry along the US–Mexico border. In Noem v. Al Otro Lado, the government contends that turning asylum-seekers away is within the bounds of federal law and is a critical tool for managing [...]

Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta’s tenure as Ghana’s Finance Minister from 2017-2024 was marked by ambitious economic reforms, heavy borrowing, and controversial fiscal policies. Initially celebrated for his financial acumen, he later became the target of fierce criticism as Ghana’s debt crisis deepened. By 2025, his reputation was further complicated by corruption charges filed by Ghana’s [...]

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, in two cases about whether states may restrict participation on girls’/women’s school sports teams to students classified as female based on biological sex at birth. The two cases are Little v. Hecox (No. 24-38) from the Ninth Circuit, and West Virginia v. [...]

The state of judicial independence in Romania has come into the spotlight following one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history and two weeks of mass protests in Bucharest calling for judicial reform, with tens of thousands taking to the streets. Why are Romanians taking to the streets? The demonstrations were sparked by [...]

In Ghana’s ongoing battle against corruption, few institutions have attracted as much attention—and controversy—as the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). The Office of the Special Prosecutor was established in 2017 under the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959). There are also subsidiary legislations governing the OSP such as the Office of [...]

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution under the Eighth Amendment. Joseph Clifton Smith was sentenced to death in Alabama for a 1997 [...]

Violence against children and other persons in Nigeria has become one of the most pressing human rights concerns in West Africa. From the attacks by Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North-East to clashes in the Middle Belt involving armed gangs, the toll on lives, livelihoods, and religious freedom [...]

This week, President Donald Trump pardoned a man federal prosecutors described as the architect of a “narco-state” who moved 400 tons of cocaine to United States shores. In September, the US military began killing people on Caribbean vessels based on unproven suspicions they were doing the same thing on a far smaller scale. The strikes [...]

Editor’s Note: This explainer is published ahead of the November 12, 2025 Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of Ghana’s deportation agreement with the United States. In mid-2025, Ghana entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Repatriation and Temporary Hosting of West African Nationals with the US, to accept deportees and host certain West [...]