Kenya will be the first country to have its nationals go through the pre-trial chamber process at the International Criminal Court.
ZANU PF this week stepped up its efforts to block in the House of Assembly the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill which seeks to limit the powers of the central bank governor.
The MDC transport manager who was severely tortured after he was abducted by state security agents last month, is still being denied private medical care, in what his lawyers say is a 'calculated' and 'deliberate' act by the state.
A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps."
It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law.
Former consultant for Willbros International Inc. (WII), a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. (Willbros), Paul G. Novak, yesterday admitted to engaging in a conspiracy to pay more than $6 million in bribes to Nigerian government officials as well as officials from a Nigerian political party.
A Lusaka Magistrates' court today freed a newspaper news editor who stood charged for circulating photographs of a woman in labour during Zambia's strike earlier this year.
Hunger will be a thing of the past in the region should plans by the East African Community to start formal cross border trade in food yield positive results.
FIVE inmates who have been waiting to be hanged for more than 20 years, were on Friday released by the Luzira Prison authorities. They were the first condemned inmates to be released without a presidential pardon.
The US Government will cooperate with the International Criminal Court to prosecute perpetrators of the post-election violence if a local mechanism fails. President Obama's special envoy on war crimes Stephen Rapp also said in Nairobi that the US would continue issuing visa bans.
The United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone today transferred its detention centre to the national prison service.
The court case against MDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett hit yet another snag on Monday, when Judge Chinembiri Bhunu refused to recuse himself from the case.
Scores of lawyers gathered in Harare on Monday to protest the increasing intimidation tactics being used by the state against them, as they try to defend various human rights activists in the country.
A magistrate in Lusaka, Zambia, today threw out the case against the Post editor Chansa Kabwela, who was charged with distributing obscene materials in a case brought against her by the state after she sent photos of a woman giving birth in the street to Zambia's vice president and health minister to draw attention to the consequences of a health sector strike in June this year.
