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Zuma to return to court as President in August?
ANC president Jacob Zuma has vowed not to recuse himself as the party's presidential candidate saying that will be tantamount to pleading guilty to...
US court authorises Nigerian death suit against Pfizer
Pfizer drugs giant has offered an apology to Nigerian who were adversely affected by a drug study and experimentation in 1996, although they still...
Reserve Bank officials pounce on South African farmer’s property
Last Sunday he had to slaughter 1000 of his pigs and feed the meat to crocodiles because farm invaders had decided that no pig...
Militia leader Thomas Lubanga to plead not guilty
The trial of Thomas Lubanga, former leader of the armed group UPC (Union of Congolese Patriots) in Ituri, north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic...
Did Ex president woo aide back to have him killed?
Malawi on Thursday launched a probe into the mysterious death of a top assistant to former President Bakili Muluzi, authorities have said. The inquiry...
ANC to tamper with constitution for Zuma’s immunity?
Jacob Zuma, the clear frontrunner to become South Africa’s next president following elections due within weeks, will go into the campaign facing corruption charges...
Senegal’s judicial doublespeak and homosexuality
Nine homosexuals were sentenced to eight years behind bars, Tuesday, in Dakar, Senegal. The men were arrested in a flat on the outskirts of...
Military bans sirens and horsewhips as victim sues
Apparently to forestall a repeat of the incident in which navy soldiers brutally assaulted a lady motorist in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos last...
Liberia: Charles Taylor’s financial assets to be frozen
The UN Security Council has stressed the need to freeze the financial assets of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, his family and associates. Taylor...
Ethiopia releases corrupt official, Ex dictator still at large in Zimbabwe
Tamerat Layne, Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister convicted by the Ethiopian Supreme Court in 2000 for corruption and abuse of power has been released.
He is...
Convicted Rwandan genocide planner Bagosora to appeal
There have been celebrations of justice among factions of Rwandans over the indictment of Theoneste Bagosora and his cohorts, for planning and inciting the...
Moroccan convicted of Madrid bombings vows to appeal
Abdelilah Ahriz has been convicted for raising money for terrorist activities as well as being part of the criminal group that carried out the...
Three convicted and sentenced for Rwandan Genocide
A UN backed tribunal in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, has sentenced former Rwandan army colonel, Theoneste Bagosora, along with former army commanders Alloys...
Ethiopians react to Teddy Afro’s sentence
The jailing of Ethiopia's popular music star, Teddy Afro, on manslaughter charges after a nine-month-long trial, dominated the headlines of Ethiopia's daily newspapers this...
Nigerian opposition : The real losers are Nigerians
The presidential candidate of Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC), Atiku Abubakar, said Friday that democracy and all Nigerians were the real losers after...
Ethiopian opposition singer thrown into jail
Ethiopian singer, Teddy Afro whose songs became an anthem for opposition protests of the Ethiopian government in 2005, is convicted of the manslaughter of...
Court orders ‘racist’ Mugabe gov’t to settle white farmers
The SADC Tribunal Friday dealt a deadly blow to Zimbabwean government's chaotic and violent land reform, which it said was racially motivated and violated...
MEND Leader, Henry Okah, Released for Medical Examination
A court in Nigeria has granted Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), three weeks to undergo...
Egypt sends first man sent to jail for sexual assault but …
Noha Rushdi has won a monumental court case that saw an Egyptian court send a man to prison for the first time for sexual...
Blood for Oil : Bowoto v. Chevron Oil Begins in the US
Chevron Oil company is at last facing trials in an international hearing in a federal court in San Francisco in the landmark human rights...
Officials detained for impounding truck amid fraud claims
Police in Zambia on Thursday detained five Patriotic Front (PF) officials who impounded a Ministry of Health truck on suspicion that it was carrying...
Two Kenyan Judges face criminal charges, one for attempted murder
A Kenyan Judge was on Tuesday arraigned in court, charged with attempted murder for stabbing a driver, Robert Kamau, on the stomach. Kenyan High...
Marriage or Legal paedophilia : Morocco battles with under age marriages
More than 33,560 marriages of female Moroccan minors, representing 86.79% of the requests submitted in 2007, were approved by judges, a women's rights group...
Sudanese president still legally free
As a result of insufficient evidence to indict the Sudanese president on war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the Judges at the International Criminal...
Kenya exposed: Child labour revelation
As a participant to the international conventions against the Child Labour, Kenya’s alarming employment under aged children has been exposed to the international labour...
Shell punished over greed and malice
After going behind the community to obtain a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) over a land that belonged to the natives, without the...
Ex governor charged for supplying chickens at about US $100 each
A former governor of Nigeria's northern Kebbi state, Adamu Aliero, has been charged to court over a contract for the supply of 9,422 chickens...
Oil company charged with human right abuses in Nigeria
According to documents released by Earth Rights International, Royal Shell Petroleum has been indicted with actions of oppression against non-violent resistance to its environmental...
Kenyan official arrested in connection with hijacked ship
Kenyan police were still holding Thursday a maritime official arrested Wednesday for allegedly giving sensitive news to the press about the hijacked arms freighter...
Dutch company to blame for deaths and poisonous sledge in Abidjan ?
A trial is under way in Abidjan of local officials accused of conniving in the dumping of toxic oil sludge in August 2006 and...