A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced a Member of Parliament in the country, Édouard Mwangachuchu to death on treason charges. The...
A DR Congo Army Colonel has been sentenced to death after he was found guilty in the killing of more than 50 anti-UN demonstrators in August....
Hearing in petitions filed before Uganda’s Constitutional Court challenging the recently passed anti-gay law in the country commenced on Monday, with the petitioners labelling the law...
A 20-year-old Ugandan man is currently facing the death penalty after he was arrested and charged with “aggravated homosexuality” which is an offence punishable by death...
Ghana is the latest African country to abolish capital punishment as the country’s parliament voted against the death penalty on Tuesday. According to a parliamentary committee...
Islamic authorities in Mauritania have demanded the death penalty for a female student for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad after she was arrested on charges of blasphemy....
Global human rights group, Amnesty International, says it harbours fears over an impending Anti-Homosexuality Law in Uganda leading to the death penalty for offenders. AI raised...
The Zambian government has pardoned 390 death-row inmates and commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment after President Hakainde Hichilema abolished the death penalty in the...
The government of Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signing a new law to the effect on Monday. The...
An Egyptian criminal court in Giza, Cairo, on Tuesday, sentenced a senior judge, Ayman Hagag, to death for the murder of his TV presenter wife, Shaima...