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Zuma’s court appearance may trigger violence
JACOB ZUMA, South Africa's ruling ANC president would be going to the courts in August and already warning of violence have been issued by...
Al-Bashir’s indictment criticised by Arab league
The head of the Arab League travelled to Sudan on Sunday night to discuss an Arab plan aimed at defusing the crisis over the...
Zimbabwean government lawyers walk out of Namibian tribunal
The whole legal team of the Zimbabwean government yesterday embarrassed itself by walking out of the hearing of a regional tribunal in Namibia.
They refused...
Positive reactions to Al-Bashir’s possible prosecution
Africa Action, a Washington-based organisation, Tuesday applauded the International Criminal Court’s call to prosecute Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and genocide...
An ex-Zanu PF henchman’s fears and regrets
Stanlus Marowa's brief stint as a henchman recruited by local ZANU-PF party leaders is coming back to haunt him since they abandoned him, and...
Tough court ruling against two Moroccan terrorists
Moroccan terrorist, Hicham Doukali, who attempted a suicide attack against tourists on August 13, 2007 in Morocco, was sentenced, Thursday, for life while his...
Ghanaian lawmakers tighten screws on corruption
Ghanaian lawmakers on Wednesday turned their attention to strict assets declaration by public office holders as they seek how to tighten the screws on...
Reckless drivers forced to wash and fondle corpses
Soldiers at Ghana's military hospital in Accra have devised a weird way of punishing commercial vehicle drivers who flout road traffic regulations – wash...
Rioting Nigerian soldiers explain action ahead of court martial
The Nigerian Army has set up a board of inquiry over last Friday's demonstration by soldiers from the 323 Artillery Regiment in Akure, capital...
16 arrested over savage beatings of three white Zimbabweans
Two elderly white Zimbabwean farmers Mike Cambell (75), his wife Angela (70) who made history by taking the Robert Mugabe regime to a...
ANC to bring Zuma rape accuser back to SA from Netherlands to apologise
The ANC leadership is reported to be keen to have Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser brought back from the Netherlands to apologise for making...
Mbeki overlooks justice and extends Selebi’s contract
Thabo Mbeki has extended the contract of suspended national police commissioner Jackie Selebi by 12 months, reports say.
This is despite various charges of corruption...
Casablanca court sentences culprits of mattress factory fire
judgment of the three persons accused of direct responsibility in a factory fire which caused the death of 55 workers and wounded several others...
Ex-gov’t official’s conviction politically oriented or legal ?
A five- year jail sentence handed down on Tsatsu Tsikata, a key opposition figure and close ally of Ghana's former president Jerry John Rawlings,...
Fatwa Divorce generating massive uproar from women
A fatwa issued by a Mufti in Tunisia, allowing women to break matrimonial ties a third time a husband mentions divorce from...
Chinese are now Black, rules South African court
IN A landmark ruling, the Pretoria High Court (South Africa) ruled on Thursday that South Africa’s 10000 strong ethnic Chinese community are...
Former gov’t official gets five year jail term for financial misconduct
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Wednesday sentenced a key opposition figure to five years' imprisonment for wilfully causing financial loss to the...
Attorney general’s office charges military over torture
Kenya's Attorney-General is set to make history, becoming the first civilian to investigate human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the military in an operation...
Investigations into oil block awards begin in Nigeria
Nigeria’s government is investigating awards of oil exploration blocks made in the last days of the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo, the previous president.
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ANC youth leader vows to kill for Zuma
South Africa’s ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema has vowed that the youth of South Africa would die in supporting ANC President Jacob...
Judge orders police to give Tendai Biti’s location
A judge in Zimbabwe on Friday ordered police to bring the arrested MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti to court after they failed to reveal...
Three suspected road robbers burnt alive
A road armed robber and his two accomplices were extracted with force, Wednesday, from the main police station in Kouroussa, 400 km from Conakry...
Three terrorists sentenced in Morocco
Three teenagers charged in the Casablanca explosions which took place in the areas of Sidi Moumen and Hay El Farah on March 11th and...
The West blamed again as Egypt moves to ban female circumcision
The Egyptian Parliament has passed a new legislation that bans female circumcision and changes the legal minimum age for marriage to 18 years for...
Imprisoned ex-opposition rioters become new bone of contention
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday ruled out general amnesty to perpetrators of the post-election violence which rocked the country over disputed presidential elections.
Addressing...
Cameroonian journalists receive two suspicious police summons
Two journalists working for the Cameroonian private daily, Le Messager in Yaoundé, have been summoned to the police headquarters.
Marie Noëlle Guichi and Jean François...
Smoking in public places banned in Zambia
The Zambian government has banned smoking in public places with immediate effect, and offenders will face maximum jail term of two years or maximum...
Arrests of xenophobic criminals in South Africa
Two South African miners accused of intimidating their African colleagues, mostly Mozambicans at the East Rand Proprietary Mines (EPRM) at Boksburg, near Johannesburg, have...
Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s new child
The High Court in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, has given American diva Madonna the go ahead to permanent adopt a two-year-old Malawian toddler, David...
Nigeria begins investigations into the cause of death of 46 soldiers
Nigeria's upper legislative chamber, the Senate, has mandated its committee on defence to investigate the death, in a road crash last Wednesday, of 46...