Tanzania’s repression of dissent under the guise of counterterrorism
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South Sudan’s security crisis and the looming war
The seminar will discuss a new report on South Sudan’s intelligence services and its role in the current security crisis. South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) actively promotes repression, democratic regression and instability and is contributing to the country’s descent into renewed civil war. These are the findings of an Intelwatch report that unmasks the […]
Russian Security Assistance in Africa Soviet In Style; Extractive In Substance; Destabilising In Impact
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Beneath The Surface: South Sudan’s Intelligence Services’ Reign of Terror
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Recruitment: Advocacy and Capacity-building Director | CLOSED
Intelwatch is a recently launched non-profit organisation based in South Africa, and working internationally. We aim to promote democratic oversight of state and private intelligence agencies, monitor and report on surveillance activities, raise awareness of the risks of undemocratic intelligence and surveillance activities, and advocate for progressive laws and policies that safeguard fundamental rights. Intelwatch […]
Op-ed | Renditioning dissidents: Kenya’s secret service to Empire goes retail
This piece by Paula Cristina Roque was first published by African Arguments. While Kenyan authorities deny their involvement in renditioning Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, a blood-stained history of collaboration in Western-backed renditions speaks dubiously for itself. A clandestine network of spies, a fabricated rendezvous, a carefully orchestrated kidnapping, the misuse of counter-terrorism operatives, a miscalculation […]
Op-ed | The Angola-US honeymoon — political amnesia and moral decay
This piece by Paula Cristina Roque was first published by Daily Maverick. This type of relationship has been a realpolitik practice of many democracies’ engagements with autocratic, corrupt and failing states. Here’s why it is a problem. President Joe Biden’s visit to Angola this week, his first to Africa, has sparked much debate on a […]
Op-ed | Mozambique: A revolution born in the search for electoral justice
This piece by Paula Cristina Roque was first published by African Arguments. Another stolen election has sent the people into the streets. They await Venancio Mondlane, the leader of the protest movement. The old elite await a $50 billion resource jamboree. Is this the end of FRELIMO? Mozambique’s fight for justice, freedom and prosperity is being […]
Op-ed | Assassinations, fraud and intimidation mark Mozambique’s 2024 elections
This piece by Paula Cristina Roque was first published by Daily Maverick. Mozambique’s largest observation platform comprising seven NGOs, with 1,900 observers across the country, declared that this month’s elections were fraudulent. International observers publicly questioned the credibility of the polls. Multiple gunshots under the cover of darkness pointed to an orchestrated execution. Twenty-five bullets were […]