Justice - Page 15
Missing trial cash exhibit, ex drug baron charged
Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has recommended the trial of a former Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
Chad kicks out its only foreign correspondent
The Chadian government effectively forced the country's only permanent foreign correspondent to leave the country on Thursday after withdrawing her work permit without explanation,...
Editor on the run
The founder and editor of the private bimonthly newspaper Umuco went into hiding last Tuesday, a day before a police raid on his residence...
Conjugal sex for Ugandan prison inmates
Sex is an important issue bordering the development of Ugandan prisons. According to Dr. Johnson Byabasaija, Ugandan Prisons headquarters the Commissioner General, the government’s...
Former Egyptian presidential candidate will remain in prison
Egypt's highest court Monday turned down another bid by jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour to be released from prison, due to his medical condition.
His...
Egypt : Appeals against shut down of 49 web sites
An Egyptian judge is appealing a lower court's ruling that upheld the freedom of expression on the Internet.
In the appeal, which begins 17 March,...
Billion dollar fraud charges levelled against defector
Dumiso Dabengwa, who defected from Mugabes's Zanu PF recently faces an investigation on abuse of billions of Zimbabwean dollars.
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Mozambique: ex-migrant workers storm labour ministry
Over a hundred Mozambicans, who had once been migrant workers in the now defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR), Wednesday burst into the Labour Ministry,...
Nigeria: Police win bloody fight against bank robbers
The Nigeria police have foiled an attempt to rob a commercial bank in the economic capital city of Lagos, killing four and arresting five...
Kenya: South African judge to head poll fraud investigation
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has formally appointed a team of electoral experts to undertake investigations into the disputed Presidential elections that saw him re-elected...
Kenyan minister’s aide arrested over US$ 2,800 bribe
The integrity of Kenya’s Minister for Local Government, Uhuru Kenyatta, was called into question Wednesday following the arrest of his aide, Mr. Justus Kariuki,...
Rights group demands justice for 44 persons murdered in Gambia
Scores of human rights activists and families of some 44 Ghanaians and other nationals allegedly killed in the Gambia in July 2005 while trying...
Zimbabwe: Blacks and Government fight over White land
Government’s controversial land redistribution policy has been put to the test in the southern province of Masvingo as former fighters for Zimbabwe’s liberation take...
Nigeria police dismiss 35 officers for corruption
The Nigerian police have dismissed 35 officers for corrupt practices, after they were summarily tried, the local press reported Saturday.
The report quoted the Inspector-General...
Ethiopia: Committee to Protect Journalists condemns arrest
A global media freedom body, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has condemned the recent arrest and two-week imprisonment of three journalists from Ethiopia...
“D-Day-cum-Super-Tuesday” for Nigerian Politics
A Nigerian court is expected to rule Tuesday (26 Feb) on whether or not President Umaru Yar'Adua was duly elected at the 21 April...
Nigeria: opposition will accept court’s verdict
Ahead of Tuesday's expected ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Nigeria's disputed presidential elections, one of the petitioners, former Vice President Atiku...
Angola extradites MEND leader, associate to Nigeria
The Angolan government said it extradited the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Himomotin Okah (popularly called...
Yar’Adua’s Boot Camp Reforms: Kicking himself out of office?
Whilst he is combatting political acrobatics, strategically rehearsed and put into practice by Nigerian politicians since time immemorial, to rig elections, through the setting...
Sudan : A british School teacher judged for offending Mohammed
A british teacher appears before court, this Thursday, at Khartoum, to have allowed her pupils to name their class teddy bear Mohammed. Gillian Gibbons,...
Zoe’s Ark affair : Is Cécilia Sarkozy on-board ?
Daniel Gonzalez, a crew member of the Spanish flying company Girjet told the judge in charge of the inquiries that Cécilia Sarkozy was on...
Zoe’s Ark: French will stay in Chad’s prison
This Wednesday, the judge has refused to release the nine person accused in the Zoe’s Ark affair. His decision followed the huge anti-French march...
Government accused of hypocrisy in Zoe’s Ark affair
Surrounded by the 103 African children caught up in an alleged abduction plot by a French charity, Chadian president Idriss Déby appeared before photographers...