Africa
Sierra Leone ex-president a suspect in coup attempt - police
Mr Koroma, who was granted bail on Saturday, has been under house arrest....
Ugandan serial killer sentenced to 105 years in prison
Musa Musasizi was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to the murder of three women said to ...
Niger junta refuses to free ex-leader and have sanctions dropped
His relatives say they have had no information about him since he tried and failed to escape from de...
ECOWAS Court launches training manual for lawyers, CSOs
Vice-President of the Court, Justice Gbéri-Bè Ouattara launched the manual last Friday during a capa...
South African woman jailed for 50 years for $28m theft
Hildegard Steenkamp siphoned off the money over a 13-year period from the healthcare company she wor...
Sierra Leone: President Bio appoints new Chief Justice
Justice Browne-Marke was named as replacement of Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards on Thursday, Dece...
Nigeria court convicts and sentences four Boko Haram financiers
According to the charge filed by the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, DPPF, Mr. M....
Guinea-Bissau's parliament dissolved after 'coup bid'
Heavy battles raged in the early hours of Friday in the capital Bissau between members of the nation...
British-Nigerian hacker pleads guilty to $6m fraud in US court
Idris Dayo Mustapha, 33, was part of a hacking ring that infiltrated email and brokerage accounts of...
Kenya Parliament bans suits loved by President
Speaker of Parliament Moses Wetangula said Kaunda suits, as well as traditional African clothes, wer...
Niger coup leaders repeal law against migrant smuggling
The legislation allowed authorities to take action against smugglers who transported migrants throug...
Sierra Leone lifts curfew after breakout from Freetown's Pademba Road Prison
There will be a new nine-hour night-time curfew beginning at 21:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Monday,...
Nigerian student faces jail time, deportation over threat to bomb UK university
Somtochukwu Okwuoha, 26, claimed he had enlisted ISIS, an international terrorist organisation, to h...
Niger junta sues ECOWAS, Court to rule Dec 7
The coup leaders asked the ECOWAS court to immediately lift the sanctions imposed on them by their W...
SA parliament suspends opposition leader Malema, other MPs for a month
The parliament's powers and privileges committee found them guilty of contempt of parliament for sto...
South Africa calls on ICC to issue arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister
SA's Minister in the Presidency said if the ICC did not do this, it would signal a "total failure" o...
Nigeria frees 4,000 inmates jailed over fines
Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said those freed were inmates who had been in custody for not p...
Kenya's parliament approves police deployment to Haiti
The MPs' decision came on Thursday, just as the court was hearing a petition on the legality of the ...
South Africa has referred Israel to ICC - Ramaphosa
“As South Africa we have accordingly, together with many other countries in the world, saw fit to re...
Togolese journalists jailed for defaming minister
Newspaper editor Loic Lawson and freelance reporter Anani Sossou had accused the housing minister of...
I’m no longer married to my ex, we’re divorced, woman says
She said the marriage, which was contracted under the Urhobo Native Law and Custom, has been dissolv...
Why South Africa regrets its liberal post-apartheid asylum laws
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced plans to toughen asylum and immigration laws in...
Ex-doctor on trial in France over Rwanda genocide
Sosthene Munyemana was a 29-year-old gynaecologist living in the south of Rwanda at the time of the ...
South Africa: A judge found that a man did not intend to rape his girlfriend, Supreme Court to hear appeal of case
It is an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Eastern Cape, against a local high court rul...
Burundi prosecutors seek life sentence for ex-Prime Minister
Mr Bunyoni’s trial started in September, a year after he was fired by President Evariste Ndayishimiy...
