FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, failed yesterday to appear before the House of Representatives Committee probing the power sector with Chief Obasanjo citing slight indisposition.
TWO Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions leaders who were arrested last week for making speeches at a workers' day rally have been denied bail when they appeared in court on Monday, ZCTU said in a statement.
IT IS ironic, in a way, that proposed amendments to SA's competition law are to go to the cabinet just as the Competition Commission is reporting ever richer successes in busting cartels.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has ordered the Registry to appoint a lawyer for an accused who is still at large, Fulgence Kayishema.
Susan Brown, the wife of Fidentia CEO J Arthur Brown, fled SA with her children for Australia on April 25 with an unexecuted arrest warrant hanging over her head, the Cape Town District Court was told yesterday.
Debate about amnesty for those implicated in the violence sparked by the December controversial presidential election results peaked at the weekend. There were two diametrically opposed views - the nays and the yea - both representing the discordance of thoughts
Bongwa Leoncie, wife of the genocide acquitted Andre Ntagerura, Monday testified in defense of Prosper Mugiraneza, former Rwandan minister for Civil Service, who is accused of 1994 genocide and crimes against humanity alongside three other former ministers before the Arusha-based
Egyptian authorities should immediately investigate and prosecute those security officials responsible for beating Ahmed Maher Ibrahim, Human Rights Watch said today. Maher, a 27-year-old civil engineer, used the social-networking site Facebook to support calls for a general strike on May
On 8 May 2008, Unity Radio, a station run by Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), was shut down on the orders of the Minister of Information and Communication, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo.
Detectives from the Family and Child Sexual Offences Unit are investigating the rape of a young medical student, the sister of a Springbok rugby player, in Cape Town.
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday called for the release of its members in prisons across the country.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the members of Nigeria's House of Representatives to stop delaying the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill after its consideration was deferred for the fifth time last week.
As children of God most Rwandans have lost their innocence, thanks largely to the actions of the self proclaimed representatives of Christ's message on earth.
