FOR DECADES BEFORE 1991, when it came to questions of criminal jurisdiction in cases concerning a trial of a fugitive abducted from a foreign country, courts rigidly followed the legal maxim mala captus, bene detentus, which translates to: “wrongfully captured,…

On 7 April, Namibia observed World Health Day as usual. It coincided with the World Health Organisation launching a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health: ‘Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures’. Lamentably, in Namibia, as with many sub-Saharan African countries, there…