Legal

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings this week to determine whether it has jurisdiction to judge if atrocities committed by the...

Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights...

GENEVA — UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, is condemning the rise of militia group attacks on displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of...

A Tanzanian court has ruled the leader of the opposition Chadema party and three other defendants must stand trial on terrorism charges. The party says the allegations are politically motivated.The decision was handed down Friday by Judge Joachim Tigan...

Zimbabwe's High Court has voided the government's three-month suspension of striking teachers, ruling the ministry of education overstepped its authority. The teachers went on strike last week over poor salaries just as schools were set to reopen after...

ABUJA— A highly decorated police officer in Nigeria has been arrested following accusations he belongs to an international drugs cartel, police say.Abba Kyari, already suspended for allegedly helping self-avowed fraudster Hushpuppi to launder his money...

QUESTION: (Via translation) Thank you again, Mr. Secretary, for this interview, as you have just held a ministerial meeting to coordinate global efforts in the fight against COVID. Why hold such a meeting at this time? What are the concerns? What c...

Rivers State authorities have forcibly evicted thousands of residents of waterfront communities from their homes in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in southern Nigeria. The area is home to an estimated population of 60,000 people. The Go...