Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the reported release from house arrest of the President of Mauritania, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was overthrown by the country's military in August, and called for the restoration of constitutional order as soon as

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC) over what it described as an "evidence of compromise of EC officials during the recently-held 2008 elections."

Mozambique's Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating possible theft of funds from the Local Initiative Investment Budget (OIIL), allocated to each of the country's 128 districts.

THE Government is in the process of transforming the Prison Service into a modern correctional institution in line with the United Nations (UN) standard minimum rules for the treatment of offenders.

Public health and individual human rights are poor friends. What may be good for society may be bad for the individual, or the other way round. And nothing sharpens this tension as starkly as AIDS.

Men of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Army carried out more than 90 summary executions in suppressing the rioting that rocked Jos in November, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

Nigeria Prison Service (NPS) has exonerated itself from the alarming rate of congestion in various prisons across the country.

Somalia's President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein have met Jendayi Frazer, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in Nairobi, officials said on Monday.

On 18 December 2008, Thiernodjo Dayedio Diallo, managing editor of "La Verité", was arrested and detained at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police in Guinea.

The Niger State police command has apprehended a lorry carrying 245 children believed to be trafficked from states bordering Niger.The truck with Kano registration number, XB241GE was intercepted by the police at about 3:00am yesterday in Minna. The children were

THE Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Delta State said at least 10 innocent Nigerians are killed monthly at police/military checkpoints nationwide, according to a recent study carried out by the organisation.

With one strike of the pen, Kenya may return to the era of media oppression and suppression, a move that seems could be replicated in the EAC region. Media freedom in the region is going through a patchy period as

Zimbabwe's new attorney-general celebrated his appointment last week with the prosecutions of white farmers in defiance of a regional court ruling which was supposed to protect them from eviction.

THE Ogun State House of Assembly has passed the state's N100 billion 2009 Appropriation Bill into law. The approval indicated that N39, 866,552, 075:16k was earmarked for recurrent expenditure.

In a lecture delivered by the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, at the University of Ibadan sometime in April, the Professor highlighted what he felt are things that went right in the 2007 general elections. Although

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has said that he would not return to Nigeria in response to the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was speaking in an interview with the

The Plateau State Government has initiated moves to implement reports of inquiries into past crisis in the state in line with calls from various quarters in this regard. Already, the report of the Plateau Peace Conference held in 2004 has

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, declared former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, wanted over alleged misappropriation of N32 billion public funds.

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The Cape High Court has sent a 21-year-old man to prison for 10 months for raping a 12-year-old girl, and his accomplice, who the girl said had held his hand over her mouth during the attack, was allowed to effectively