As thousands of Twin Cities Somalis gatheredMonday to celebrate an important holiday on the Muslim calendar,their leaders expressed sympathy for the families of several youngmen who are missing and may have gone to Somalia to fight.

History was made at the weekend in Kano when the Edo State Police Command became the champions of the maiden edition of the Inspector General of Police Cup.

Delta State Chief Judge, Justice Rosalin Bozimo has warned judges and magistrates in the state against imposition of stringent bail conditions.

Eight soldiers entrusted with the responsibility of safe-keeping the military arms at the Command and Staff College arms depot, Jaji and the One Base Army Ordnance, Kaduna were found guilty by a General Court Martial that sat in Kaduna to

LOCAL and international environmental activists handed over a petition yesterday calling on the government to investigate the suspension of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) water expert Anthony Turton, which they believe is an assault on academic freedom.

JUSTICE department director-general Menzi Simelane is taking the fall after the government's failure to make its case against suspended national director of public prosecutions Vusi Pikoli.

Parliament's correctional services committee has recommended that prisons return to the pre-1994 regime of labour for prisoners.

THE Constitutional Court has abolished the rule of African customary law which prevented women from owning immovable property in a customary marriage.

FRENE Ginwala's conclusion that suspended national director of public prosecutions Vusi Pikoli was fit to hold office came with a "but". In her report she qualified her conclusion with doubts on whether he had the "capacity and understanding to carry

WHEN Bellville regional magistrate Frans Botes recently called for the swift implementation of new liquor legislation that seeks to clamp down on illegal shebeens, it was like music to the ears of Western Cape finance, economic development and tourism MEC

People will have a chance to reflect on human rights, progress made in the province, and the work that still needs to be done, at this year's International Human Rights Day Event, Wednesday, Dec. 10.

NATIONAL Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Vusi Pikoli has paid twice over now for the fact that he is unbending in the face of political pressure. Yesterday, President Kgalema Motlanthe declined to reinstate Pikoli to the job from which he was

PRESIDENT Kgalema Motlanthe yesterday upheld Thabo Mbeki's decision to axe prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli, in a move that appeared to ignore the Ginwala inquiry's findings that the government had failed to make its case against Pikoli.

THE Electoral Commission of Kenya was last night preparing for an all-out war against the coalition government and threatening court action to nullify any decision by Parliament against them.

SOUTH Africans are still prejudiced about homosexuals despite having some of the most progressive legislation in the world, with 80% of the population believing that sex between lesbians or gay men is wrong, according to a study commissioned by the

A depressed woman. Often rape victims suffer more than the physical ordeal because they go through a hard time to report the case and have the offenders prosecuted

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma today expressed grave concern at the dire humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe and called on Commonwealth member countries to give their strong support to the appeal launched by the United Nations to assist the country.

On 27 November 2008, Kinshasa's N'Djili court handed down 10 and nine-month sentences, respectively, to Nsimba Embete Ponte, editor of the Kinshasa-based, independent bi-weekly l'"Interprète", and his assistant, Davin Tondo Nzovuanga. The court's decision was only made public a week

THE Government has granted amnesty to 22,930 former rebels under the Amnesty Act since 2003.