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Will Hissène Habré Receive a Fair Trial?

Will Hissène Habré Receive a Fair Trial?

It is going to be a very busy few weeks for Senegalese lawyers Mbaye Sène, Mounirou Balane and Abdou Gniing. They have piles of documents – up to 16 gigabites of them, according to the Senegalese media – to go through before the trial of Chad’s former dictator Hissène Habré resumes in Dakar on 7 […]

Why Are More Women Opting for Illegal Abortion?

Why Are More Women Opting for Illegal Abortion?

Fifteen-year-old Uwamahoro (not real name) has been living at Marembo Centre in Kigali for two years. The centre is a non-governmental organisation which supports and rehabilitates young people who have been orphaned, neglected or abused. Uwamahoro was raped by a stranger in 2013 and she ended up pregnant. Uwamahoro contemplated carrying out an abortion, but […]

Rwandan High Court Dissolves New Leadership of Lawyers’ Body

Rwandan High Court Dissolves New Leadership of Lawyers’ Body

The High Court, nullified the recent election of the leadership of Rwanda Bar Association (RBA) on grounds that the electoral process was characterised with malpractices. This follows a lawsuit by a senior member of the lawyers’ body, Richard Mugisha, calling for the cancellation of the elections in which Jean Marie Vianney Nduwamungu had been pronounced […]

Local Leader in Rwanda From Rwamagana On the Run Over Illicit Brew

Local Leader in Rwanda From Rwamagana On the Run Over Illicit Brew

Police have warned against cases of distilling illegal home-made brew locally known as Kanyanga, in the Eastern Province. This follows reports that a grassroots leader was found distilling Kanyanga in Muhazi Sector, Rwamagana District. Four people who worked for the local leader are currently detained at Kigabiro Police Station. Several litres of the illicit alcohol […]

Gambian Court Denies Taranga FM Manager Abdoulie Ceesay Bail

Gambian Court Denies Taranga FM Manager Abdoulie Ceesay Bail

The lower court in Banjul presided over by Principal Magistrate Momodou M.S. Jallow yesterday, 5th of August, 2015 refused bail to Abdoulie Ceesay, Managing Director of Taranga FM. Mr. Ceesay was arraigned on August 4 and charged with a single count of ‘Seditious intention’ contrary to section 51 (1) (d) of the Criminal Code, laws […]

Amnesty International Wants ICC to Intervene in Libya

Amnesty International Wants ICC to Intervene in Libya

Calling for an end to “an epidemic of kidnapping blighting” Libya, Amnesty International has faulted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to undertake any investigations into crimes under international law committed by armed groups in the last four years. Amnesty, a global movement of more than 7 million people fighting injustice and defending human […]

Namibian Cabinet Tightens Screws On Fugitives

Namibian Cabinet Tightens Screws On Fugitives

Government is busy tightening the legal screws to ensure Namibia is no longer a safe haven for international fugitives fleeing justice in their own countries. The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Tjekero Tweya, said this on Tuesday when he held a briefing on cabinet decisions. He announced that Cabinet had approved an action plan […]

Reports from Western Sahara make clear Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations

Reports from Western Sahara make clear Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations

Reports from Western Sahara make clear that Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations against the Sahrawi people, said RFK Center for Human Rights. According to an article posted on its site, in its latest report on human rights violations in Western Sahara between January and June 2015, RFK Center said “reports from […]

Legitimacy of Saharawi Issue Buried Morocco’s Autonomy Proposal

Legitimacy of Saharawi Issue Buried Morocco’s Autonomy Proposal

Algerian lawyer and member of the Central Committee of the Liberation Front (FLN) Mr. Sadek Bouguetaya has indicated that the legitimacy of the Saharawi cause “has buried the Moroccan autonomy proposal, which is contrary to the UN resolutions on the decolonization of Western Sahara.” Speaking at the Summer University of Saharawi Cadres, underway in the […]

‘Man of God’ Rapes Woman Until She Faints

‘Man of God’ Rapes Woman Until She Faints

A woman who was allegedly raped by Johane Marange Simon branch leader Clement Momberume after being drugged, has said that she passed out during the sexual assault. Taking to the witness stand before senior regional magistrate Mark Dzira on Thursday, the woman who is a second wife of Momberume’s nephew, said she passed out during […]

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