The Kenyan Government on Sunday appeared to be having second thoughts about an agreement to arrest and hand over to the International Criminal Court election violence suspects.
Barely a fortnight after a Canadian court slammed a life sentence on Desire Munyaneza for his role in the 1994 Genocide, Canadian police on Friday arrested Jacques Mungwarere another Genocide fugitive who has been living in the North American country.
Four Cabinet ministers convinced they could be arrested by International Criminal Court agents because of their role in post-election violence have held a series of meetings with lawyers to stall Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo's plans.
Charles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo on the country, and of using him as a scapegoat by falsely accusing him of responsibility for the flow of arms into the country. Mr. Taylor also denied widespread press and investigative reports that the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, traded diamonds with Sierra Leonean rebels under ...
HARARE magistrate Ms Chioniso Mutongi, who recently jailed a senior prosecutor for disrespecting the court, has resigned from the bench citing alleged interference, harassment and abuse by the prosecution authority.
There is a sense of optimism in the serial media hype regarding the Appeal Court ruling on the matter of Andy Uba seeking to take the governorship mantle after the incumbent governor, Peter Obi, quits office March 17, next year.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will this week commence the extradition of sacked former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, who has been accused of laundering over 10 million pounds while heading the bank.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that he will ask the tribunal to open an investigation into the deadly post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 and January 2008.
Charles Taylor did not order the execution of Sierra Leonean rebel commander Sam Bockarie, but rather sent his former vice president Moses Blah to arrest him on the Liberian border with Ivory Coast, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today.
In a surprising move, Charles Taylor today reinforced the truthfulness of his former vice president's testimony against him last year, but dismissed the evidence of a Liberian journalist as full of "lies" and "exaggeration."
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.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor, Louis Moreno Ocampo, left Kenyans with a clear message - that The Hague process had officially begun. During his three-day visit, the ICC prosecutor ensured that the government understood what was to happen next as the ICC president in The Hague had appointed a three-judge bench to determine the fate of masterminds of the post-election violence.
The verdict passed on the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiary, the Petroleum and Pipelines Marketing Company (PPMC) by the House of Representatives at the its inquest into the allegation of sharp practices in the award and execution of fuel import contracts has been described as a charade by the Trade Union Congress[TUC]
Lieutenant Colonel Gibril Bojang, the demoted and dismissed Commander of the State Guard was on Friday 6th November, sent to a mandatory jail term of two years, by Principal Magistrate Emmanuel Nkea, of the Banjul Magistrates' Court. Lt. Colonel Bojang's sentence was based upon his own plea of guilty to the two counts of theft preferred against him by the State. He was also ordered to pay D1, ...
A countrywide survey of the incidence of rape in Cameroon has returned disturbing statistics: 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women surveyed reported having been raped; another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt.
