A 24-year-old Tanzanian portrait artist, Shadrack Chaula, who displayed his frustration with the President Samia Suluhu Hassan administration by burning her photograph, has been sentenced to...
A former Zambian Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Charity Katanga, has been sentenced to three years in prison after she was found guilty of illegal possession of...
Algerian defender, Youcef Atal, has been handed an eight-month suspended prison for allegedly “inciting religious hatred” in a social media post in the wake of the...
The Zambian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Gilbert Phiri, has rejected what he described as the light prison sentence of five months given to a stalwart...
A former Zambian Minister of Foriegn Affairs, Chishimba Kambwili, will spend the next five months at the Milima Prison in Kasama District after being found guilty...
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has been remanded in the Kuje Prison in Abuja on the orders of a Federal High...
Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has revealed that over 4,000 inmates held in prisons across the country were unable to pay N500 million in fines....
Jailed South African paralympian champion, Oscar Pistorius, has filed an appeal at the country’s highest court, the Constitutional Court or ConCourt, in a bid to regain...
A 52-year-old serial child-sex offender, Gerhard Ackerman, has been sentenced to 12 life sentences for his extensive record of sexual crimes against children by a High...
A Moroccan court has sentenced a 48-year-old man, Said Boukioud to five years in prison for criticizing Morocco’s King, Mohammed VI, in Facebook posts he made...