Mali parliament ex-VP handed 6 month suspended sentence
Bamako – A court in Mali’s capital on Friday handed a suspended six-month sentence to a former vice president of... Read more
4 Dec, 2021
Egyptian rights activist fined over ‘insulting’ online posts
Cairo – An Egyptian court fined prominent human rights activist Hossam Bahgat on Monday for “insulting” the country’s electoral commission... Read more
30 Nov, 2021
Senegal beauty pageant organiser sparks uproar over rape comments
Dakar – Hundreds of women filed legal complaints against the head of the Miss Senegal contest on Wednesday, activists said,... Read more
25 Nov, 2021
US teen cleared in protester deaths says self-defence ‘not illegal’
Washington – Kyle Rittenhouse, the American teen acquitted after fatally shooting two men during protests and riots against police brutality... Read more
22 Nov, 2021
Judge throws out two Malcolm X murder convictions
New York – A New York judge on Thursday threw out the convictions of two men imprisoned for decades over... Read more
19 Nov, 2021
A hero abroad, FW de Klerk’s evasiveness drew ire in South Africa
Johannesburg – Four activists abducted and murdered. A man pushed to his death from a police building. Five teenagers... Read more
18 Nov, 2021
Liberia ex-warlord Taylor sues for pensions, benefits
Abuja – Former Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, jailed for five decades for war crimes, has filed a lawsuit against his... Read more
27 Oct, 2021
