Legal

WASHINGTON/LONDON — Iran is facing renewed scrutiny for its deadly suppression of nationwide protests in 2019, as a London tribunal organized by rights groups...

ACCRA, GHANA — Supporters and opponents of Ghana's new anti-LGBT bill faced off in parliament on Wednesday in the first public hearings into the...

PRETORIA, A South African ex-policewoman Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has been found guilty of killing five relatives and her boyfriend at the end of a trial that has gripped the country.The six were murdered between 2012 and 2018, most with the help of a hit...

NAIROBI — Media controlled by rebellious northern Ethiopian forces said the government launched air strikes on the capital of Tigray region on Monday, though...

KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA — Auwal checked his two guns before another night of patrolling his village in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.“I have decided to arm myself with these guns to protect my family because the government has failed to keep us...

The panel for the appointment of the next Chief Justice held its inaugural meeting on Thursday, 30 September 2021, under the chairing of Judge Navanethem Pillay, to deliberate on procedural and substantive matters of the work of the panel. The panel ha...

A Malawi Magistrate’s Court in the capital, Lilongwe, has sentenced a Chinese national, described by some as one of the biggest African wildlife trafficking...

(Conakry, September 27, 2021) – The trial of suspects in the massacre of more than 150 people and the rape of dozens of women...