May 18

• Social Policy Commission Analyses Copyrights Draft Law

  ANGOP

  The members of the Social Policy Commission of the Cabinet Council last Thursday in Luanda, analysed Copyrights Draft Law, which is aimed at changing the Law number 4/90 of 1990... Read more »

• Jonathan Secures Release of Nigerian Prisoners in Equatorial Guinea

  Vanguard

  President Goodluck Jonathan has secured the release of 10 prisoners held by Equatorial Guinea for various immigration offences, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said... Read more »

• One Dies, Three Trapped As Four-Storey Building Collapses in Lagos

  Vanguard

  ONE person died while three workers were trapped as four-storey building under construction at Liverpool Estate in Ijegun, Lagos collapsed. Read more »

• Akwa Ibom Orders Closure of Illegal Motor-Parks

  Vanguard

  The Akwa Ibom Government has directed operators of commercial vehicles and tricycles to relocate to government- owned motor-parks across Uyo so as to check criminal activities. Read more »

• Sama Welcomes Professor Karabus Home

  COSATU

  17 May 2013 The South African Medical Association (SAMA) welcomes Professor Cyril Karabus back home after a protracted ordeal in the UAE. SAMA is delighted at his return following... Read more »

• City Spin Doctors Lies to Cape Town Citizens

  COSATU

  The shambles caused recently by the claims that the City used the wrong law to evict people should be investigated - above and beyond the moral questions in relation to the... Read more »

• Rugare Girl Murder Suspect Remanded in Custody

  The Herald

  THE Harare man who allegedly confessed to raping and strangling to death 10-year-old Rugare girl Stacy Munjoma yesterday appeared in Read more »

May 17

• New Big Man, Old Politics - the Road Ahead for Djotodia [analysis]

  ThinkAfricaPress

  Since independence, the Central African Republic has experienced five coups. What chance does the country's latest strongman have of seeing out his term in office? Read more »

• Cape Town's Asylum Seekers Struggle to Get Documented

  IRIN

  When Jean Baptiste*, a medical student from Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arrived in South Africa in September 2012, he headed straight for Cape Town,... Read more »

• Bemba Drops 13 Witnesses

  Bemba Trial Website

  Lawyers representing Jean-Pierre Bemba in his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have reduced from 63 to 50 the number of witnesses they intended to call to testify... Read more »

• Call to Investigate Alleged Torture of Detained Sahrawis [press release]

  AI London

  The Moroccan authorities must immediately launch a full, independent and impartial investigation into allegations that six Sahrawi activists - including a child - were tortured in... Read more »

• Woman Loses Court Appeal to Claim Chieftancy [analysis]

  OSISA

  Lesotho's Constitutional Court today struck a serious blow against women's rights and gender equality by upholding a discriminatory section of the Chieftainship Act, which denies... Read more »

• PM Bars Democrats From Swazi Senate

  Swazi Media

  Members of political parties advocating for democracy in Swaziland will not be allowed to become members of the Swazi Senate, the kingdom's Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has... Read more »

• Ingabire Trial - Prosecution Questions Honesty of Defense Witness

  Focus

  A defense witness in the trial against Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire on Thursday told the Supreme Court that accusations against Ingabire were fabricated long before she came back to... Read more »

• GMO Ban Has No Legal Basis, Official Says

  SciDev.Net

  A senior Kenyan government official has dismissed last year's ban on the import of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the country - calling it ill-advised and lacking the... Read more »

• Tax Evasion, Urbanisation and Drought

  Maka

  The latest press coverage on corruption, human rights abuses, violations of freedom of the press and socio-economic exclusion in Angola: Read more »

• UN Chief 'Very Concerned' About Deteriorating Security in Northeast Nigeria

  UN News

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on all extremist groups in Nigeria to cease their attacks amid deteriorating security in the country and where a state of emergency has... Read more »

• Ruto Denies ICC Shuttle Diplomacy

  The Star

  DEPUTY president William Ruto yesterday clarified that he is on "an official bilateral trip" to four African countries, as the Senate saw heated debate on the issue. Read more »

• Uhuru in Closed-Door Meeting With Top Cops

  The Star

  Police chiefs have told President Uhuru Kenyatta that they are losing command of the police following overlaps and contradictions in two key police Acts -The National Police... Read more »

• Bong Attorney Orders Journalists Detained

  New Dawn

  Two Liberian journalists, along with their foreign trainer and local driver were ordered arrested and detained for several hours by Bong County Attorney Cornelius Wyenna, who... Read more »

• Three Arrested Over Night Prayer Girl's Murder

  New Vision

  Three suspects have been arrested over the gruesome murder of an 8-year old girl who was defiled and strangled during night prayers at Pastor Wilson Bugemebe's church. Read more »

• Court Halts Extradition Proceedings

  New Dawn

  The Criminal Court "B" at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia has halted the extradition proceedings of eight Ivoirians and summoned City Court Magistrate Nelson B. Chinneh to show... Read more »

• Pader LC5 Councillors Arrested Over Corruption

  New Vision

  The Police in Pader are holding three LC 5 councillors who were arrested over alleged corruption cases worth sh6m. Read more »

• Media Puts Law Reform Chairperson On Chopping Block [press release]

  MISA

  The Chairperson of the Law Reform and Development Commission (LRDC), Sacky Shanghala, has come under fire from some media institutions after his call to host a consultative meeting... Read more »

• Nampol Deploys More Officers to South Sudan

  New Era

  Namibia has sent an additional contingent of police officers to join the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the United Nations African Mission in... Read more »