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‘Genocide’ Singer may get life in prison
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged that a life imprisonment be imposed on Simon Bikindi, a Rwandan musician...
Pro-gov’t and Pro-FIFA teams confused at training camp
Kenya's preparations for the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers were hit by confusion as two parallel national teams trained at...
Angry FIFA orders Kenya court to reinstate Football Federation
World soccer governing body, Fifa, riled by the removal of Kenyan soccer officials last Friday, has given the country a 72-hour ultimatum to rescind...
Kenyan Football Federation refused court hearing
A group allied to ousted Kenya Football Federation Chairman Mohammed Hatimy, Monday moved to a Nairobi court, seeking orders to set aside the decision...
Arrested demonstrators to face trial in Zimbabwe
A Zimbabwean court, presided over by Magistrate Rose Dube, Thursday ruled that the embittered two members of Women Of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) arrested last...
Egyptian man sentenced to one thousand years in prison
An Egyptian man has been sentenced to 1,000 years in prison after being convicted of laundering over 280 million Egyptian pounds (U$52 million).
An Egyptian...
Football : Abdeslam Ouaddou wins racism case in France
The Metz family court (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Metz), France, sentenced a football fan on Tuesday for having insulted the Moroccan footballer Abdeslam...
French police under fire for the death of young Tunisian
Witnesses accused the police of blunder following the arrest and death of a young Tunisian on Friday in the city of Grasse (South East...
Mozambique murder trial continues
The trial before the Maputo City Court of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva took an unexpected turn...
Namibian Anti money laundering and Financial Intelligence Act soon effective
Namibia's first ever anti-money laundering law will become effective in July, paving the way for monetary authorities and law enforcement agencies to effectively monitor...
Liberia charges Gyude Bryant and two others with economic crimes
The Liberian government has indicted former head of s tate, Gyude Bryant, along with two legislators and two former officials of the Liberia Petroleum...
Morocco court postpones factory fire case
The case of Rosaor Ameublement, the factory that burned down April 26 causing the death of 56 workers, took an unprecedented turn in the...
Zambia seizes corrupt properties in Belgium to fund health sector
The Zambian government has disclosed it earned about 13.6 billion Kwacha from the sale of seized properties and that the money will be spent...
Zimbabwe : Two parties demand another recount
The election impasse in Zimbabwe deepened Wednesday after two political parties lodged fresh petitions challenging parliamentary results in 105 constituencies.
The southern African country held...
Ethiopia accuses AI for resorting to fabricated stories
Ethiopia has accused human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) of lending itself to a smear campaign against Ethiopian troops protecting the Transitional Federal Government...
Five die in northern Ghana ethnic fight
The death toll in ethnic clashes at Bawku in the north-eastern corner of Ghana has risen to five, Interior Minister Kwamena Bartel said on...
Nigeria : Armed thieves dismember policemen
Armed robbers in Nigeria seem to have grown from killing policemen to amputating them, going by the revelations made by Nigeria police boss Sunday...
Archbishop Ncube’s lover dies
ROSEMARY Sibanda, the woman at the centre of the infidelity storm that engulfed the then Archbishop Pius Ncube, and eventually forced him to quit,...
Liberian court rules on treason cases
Liberia's Criminal court in Monrovia on Friday acquitted two senior soldiers of the defunct Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) after being found not guilty...
Cameroonian suicide in Belgium sparks riots at detention facility
A young Cameroonian asylum seeker in Belgium has committed suicide by hanging himself in the toilet of a detention centre in Merksplas, Belgium, with...
Twin babies sold for US dollars
The Nigeria police have paraded a 26-year-old woman and her accomplices in the commercial city of Lagos after she allegedly sold her twin boys...
Ghanaians resort to mob justice as courts get clogged
When Naa Adorkor’s 15 year-old daughter was raped by a 45 year-old neighbour she vowed no expense would be spared in prosecuting the man....
Crime on the rise in Mozambique
Crime in Mozambique is on the increase, according to Attorney-General Augusto Paulino. In his annual report Tuesday to the country's parliament, Paulino said the...
Liberia to make armed robbery, rape, terrorism… capital offenses
In a move to check violent crimes in the country, the Liberian legislature on Wednesday began debating a draft bill aimed at making armed...
Nigerian university lecturers go on strike
Nigerian University teachers Monday began a one-week warning strike, to renew their demand for the reinstatement of their sacked 49 colleagues at the University...
Murderer changes journalist killing story and blames another
The man who led the death squad that murdered Mozambique's foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000, Monday changed his story and claimed...
Libya helps free Nur Missuari in the Philippines
Nur Missuari, President of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), was liberated Friday evening, in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, by the Kadhafi...
‘Justice for Darfur’ calls for the arrest of Sudan gov’t officials
Rights groups numbering more than 2,000 and under the banner "Global NGO Coalition on International Criminal Court (CICC)" Friday launched a campaign dubbed "Justice...
Ghana court decides Liberian refugees should go back home
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Thursday dealt a blow to the hopes of 23 Liberian refugees in Ghana when it ordered their...
Nigerian senator’s financial scam draws attention from lawyer and senate
A Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Wednesday called on the Nigeria's anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to declare Senator Iyabo...