President John Dramani Mahama has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to comply with constitutional requirements by declaring their assets by 15 July, or face ...

A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabaab militants in a 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex, says an africanews report. In January that year ...

China will negotiate and sign a new economic pact with Africa that will get rid of all tariffs on the 53 African states it has diplomatic ties with, it said, a move that could benefit middle-income ...

Legalbrief - a daily alert of important legal newsMeanwhile, analysts do not expect tactics of the Russian paramilitary groups to change despite the transfer of Wagner assets in Mali to Africa Corps, ...

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity, according to ...

Thirty years after the execution of Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eights others sparked global outrage, they have been pardoned by President Bola Tinubu, a decision that has been ...

The UK has refused to grant Economic Freedom Fighter's (EFF) leader Julius Malema from South Africa a visa due to his ‘extremism’, which that country said includes his support for Hamas and a call to ...

Bill Gates – the world’s second richest person and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – announced that a significant portion of his nearly $200bn fortune would be directed towards ...

A Tunis court has sentenced exiled former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to 22 years in prison for offences related to ‘terrorism’, Tunisian media reported on Saturday. According to the New ...

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The Harare Magistrate’s Court has ruled that former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi should stay in prison. Mzembi, who had been in exile in South Africa since 2018, made a surprise return to ...