Africa, World

One Nfally Keita, a Malian national was recently convicted and sentenced to a mandatory jail term of three months by the Brikama Magistrates’ Court...

One Ismaila Ngum was on 31stOctober 2008, arraigned before Magistrate Sainabou Wadda-Ceesay of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court for robbery. Another...

It is with no little concern and dismay that some white elements in America have retrogressed from racial rhetoric to murderous threats. Before, it’s...

Chuckie Taylor, son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, was found guilty of torture and related crimes by a US court on Thursday 30 October....

A girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13 years old, not 23, contrary to earlier news reports. She had been accused of adultery in breach of...

It gets worse each day for Zimbabweans struggling with shortages and escalating food prices, now denominated in US dollars. "There is nothing you can...

Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The Control Arms campaign, which...

The heavy fighting in North Kivu, DRC, has intensified over the last 48 hours causing massive displacement of tens of thousands of people towards...

Armed informal diamond miners in Zimbabwe's eastern Manicaland Province, scraping a living in desperate times, are resisting attempts by police to...

Six months after President Abdoulaye Wade launched his agricultural growth initiative, small-scale farmers had mixed reviews even as the President on...