Legal

WASHINGTON, The United States hailed the withdrawal from northern Ethiopia of Eritrean forces whose presence had been viewed as a key stumbling block in a landmark peace deal with rebels.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commended the withdrawal of ...

This contribution will benefit over 220,000 South Sudanese refugees in the state amid a complex humanitarian situation in the country, which has seen alarmingly high rates of food insecurity. The new funding will also benefit members of the host commun...

Somali government forces have ended a more than five hourslong al-Shabab siege of the compound housing the Mogadishu mayor’s office and other local government facilities.The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism said security forces shot dead si...

Geneva (ICRC) - During a visit to Moscow over the past two days, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, raised the importance of upholding international humanitarian law and additional critical humanita...

Following incidents of journalists being obstructed in their work and a lawyer being attacked in Zimbabwe, media and lawyers’ associations are demanding that police respect their rights.When police escorted 25 members of the Citizens Coalition for Chan...

PRETORIA, Jan 17 (NNN-SANEWS) — President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the decision handed down by the South Gauteng High Court Division to interdict the private prosecution brought against him by former President Jacob Zuma.The former President has in...

A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a Senegalese journalist and prominent anti-government critic after more than two months in detention, his lawyers said.Pape Ale Niang, head of the Dakar Matin online news site, was arrested on November 6 and ch...

A court in Uganda on Tuesday quashed a section of a communications law that has been used to prosecute government critics, journalists and writers, including two who fled to exile in Germany, its judgment said.Under Uganda's Computer Misuse Act, one of...