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President of Ghana Bar Association resigns over comments
The president of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Nii Osah Mills, has resigned over statements he made confirming claims of Tsatsu Tsikata, the jailed...
Kenyan minister addresses growing oil concerns
The Kenyan media last week went all out against foreign multinational companies that dominate the oil industry as the government launched a campaign to...
Uganda to compensate DR Congo
In an interview recorded Saturday, September 27, for the flagship news programme, La Grande Interview, broadcast September 29th, on the France based pan African...
Militants in the Niger Delta rounded up
Following information from some inhabitants of the Eleme area of Port Harcourt city, the Joint Task Force broke-into a den of suspected militants and...
Kenyan armed forces face Somali pirates
The Kenyan Armed Forces has deployed units of its military to combat the rising Somalia hijacking and pirate activities in an attempt to rescues...
Mbeki fights against judge’s vexatious, scandalous and prejudicial ruling
Former South African leader Thabo Mbeki, is fighting back. Less than 24 hours after he publicly announced his resignation, he has asked South...
Kenyan results irretrievably polluted
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
Report of the Independent Review...
South African president Mbeki resigns
President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday night confirmed that he had tendered his letter of resignation. "Today, I handed a letter to the honourable Speaker...
Egyptian tycoon goes to court over Lebanese star’s murder
The trial of Egyptian business tycoon and politician Hisham Talaat Mustafa for his alleged involvement in the killing of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in...
ANC’s revenge against Mbeki will plunge South Africa into anarchy
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has said the African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee's decision to "recall" President Thabo Mbeki is motivated...
Kenya : No land for sex offenders
Kenya has moved to step-up the fight against sexual offenders by establishing a national registry that would contain personal details of those convicted. The...
Man’s 86 wives and over 101 children stage protest march
The 86 wives of an 84-year-old Nigerian man, Alhaji Bello Masaba, and some of his over 100 children staged a four-hour protest in Minna,...
Tsvangirai prepares to punish Mugabe officials
Zimbabwe prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai has been quoted as saying some senior members of Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party could face trial over political violence,...
Zuma rape cartoon as seen by South Africans
South Africa was this week rocked by a controversial cartoon that made newspaper headlines around the country. The work of popular cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro,...
Anti-child pornography site launched in South Africa
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has launched an anti-child pornography website and has urged all citizens to report incidents and provide tip-offs anonymously...
US businessman goes to jail over Nigerian bribery charges
A seven-year prison sentence and a fine of $10.9m, has been handed a former chief executive, Albert Stanley, of US construction firm KBR who...
New Zealander arrested for pornography now charged with paedophilia
Police from The Gambia have charged a New Zealander with defiling a 16-year-old girl in the West African country, after initial accusations of pornography.
Police...
International investigations into massacre of Ghanaians in The Gambia lauded
A human rights group on Friday lauded the establishment of a joint United Nations-Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) team to investigate the...
Man with over 80 wives to face islamic death sentence
A foremost Islamic organisation in Nigeria has passed a death sentence (fatwa) on a Muslim, Muhammadu Bello Masaba, for marrying over 80 wives contrary...
Bakassi peninsula finally goes to Cameroon
Describing the process as ''very painful for all'', Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has assured that the planned handover of the resource-rich Bakassi peninsula to...
Lawyer wants movie director to get 80 lashes
An Egyptian lawyer has demanded that an Egyptian movie director be given 80 lashes for making a film said to have 'defamed' the country.
But...
Nine burnt to death as crowd cheers on
In an unprecedented reaction to the rising crime wave in Liberia, nine suspected criminals linked with armed robberies in Monrovia's commercial suburban district of...
Zuma slammed by South African press
Zuma, who is widely tipped to become the next President of South Africa, was back in Pietermaritzburg this week for a two-day hearing on...
Thabo Mbeki threatened with a lawsuit
Daniel Shunba the leader of the United People’s Party (UPP) plans to sue Mbeki if he is not immediately included in the on-going...
Transport minister questioned over abandoned cocaine plane
The police in Sierra Leone have questioned the country's sacked Transport and Aviation Minister Kemoh Sesay over the landing in the country of a...
Rwanda accuses late French president François Miterrand and top French politicians of facilitating genocide
Rwanda is preparing to indict members of the French political and military establishment over their alleged complicity in the country’s 1994 genocide after it...
Zuma says he is ‘prepared to die’ as legal hearings begin
A calm and relaxed Jacob Zuma, South Africa's ruling party chief Jacob Zuma sat in the accused’s dock in the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday,...
Zuma’s corruption trial grips international press
This week's Constitutional Court ruling, removing the biggest legal obstacle to the corruption trial of African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma rocked South...
Opposition takes gov’t to court for telecom deal
A group of Ghanaians is taking legal action against the government to halt the intended sale of state-owned Ghana Telecom to telecoms giant Vodafone...
Court pays heed to indigenes, military and parliament as it stops Bakassi handover
In a new twist to the saga of Nigeria's hand over of the resource-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, a court in Nigeria has stopped...