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A farmer tends to dried cannabis bundle in Ketama, in the northern Rif mountains, Morocco, 12 March 2021. Reuters/Stringer/File Photo

Morocco pardons nearly 5,000 cannabis farming convicts

Ahmed Eljechtimi 21 Aug 2024

Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, sits as he waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, 4 April 2024. Reuters/ Abraham Achirga

Detained Binance executive in court on Nigerian tax, money laundering charges

Camillus Eboh 4 Apr 2024

File photo: President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa addresses the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, US, 21 September 2023. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

Zimbabwe scraps colonial-era death penalty law

Nyasha Chingono 7 Feb 2024

Source: International Criminal Court.

South Africa refers Israel to ICC for Gaza war crimes

16 Nov 2023

Former Central African Republic militia leader Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka attends the International Criminal Court hearings to determine the exact charges it will bring against him, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool/File Photo

ICC prosecutor drops charges against Central Africa militia leader

Bart Meijer 19 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters.

Grieving Gambian families take govt to court over mishandling of cough syrup

Edward McAllister 14 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

HIV alarm in Uganda as anti-gay law forces LGBT 'lockdown'

9 Jun 2023

Ugandan human rights lawyer and activist leads fellow activists to file a petition challenging the signing of the new Anti-homosexuality law by President Yoweri Museveni, at the constitution court in Kampala, Uganda, 29 May 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

File Photo: Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Islamist Ennahda party and former speaker of the parliament, during an interview with Reuters at his office in Tunis, Tunisia, 15 July 2022. Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisian judge sentences opposition leader Ghannouchi to year in prison

Tarek Amara 16 May 2023

File photo: Zimbabwean novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest book "This Mournable Body" has been nominated for a Booker Prize, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Harare, Zimbabwe, 4 August 2020. Reuters/MacDonald Dzirutwe

Zimbabwe prize-winning novelist acquitted over anti-government protest

Nyasha Chingono 8 May 2023

Paul Mackenzie, 50, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers of the members of the Good News International Church to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest, appears at Malindi Law Courts, in Malindi, Kenya, 2 May 2023. Reuters/Stringer

Kenyan cult leader appears in court after more than 100 followers die

George Obulutsa, Humphrey Malalo and Duncan Miriri 2 May 2023

Source: Wikipedia. Former US President, Donald Trump.

Trump arrested, first American president in history to face criminal charges

4 Apr 2023

Cars drive past Nigerian national flags in Abuja, Nigeria 12 June 2021. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Financial crime watchdog adds South Africa, Nigeria to "grey list"

Tassilo Hummel, Alexander Winning and Bhargav Acharya 24 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Founder of Egypt's Juhayna Food Industries and his son released from prison

Farah Saafan, Haithem Ahmed, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan 23 Jan 2023

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A farmer tends to dried cannabis bundle in Ketama, in the northern Rif mountains, Morocco, 12 March 2021. Reuters/Stringer/File Photo

Morocco pardons nearly 5,000 cannabis farming convicts

Ahmed Eljechtimi 21 Aug 2024

Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, sits as he waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, 4 April 2024. Reuters/ Abraham Achirga

Detained Binance executive in court on Nigerian tax, money laundering charges

Camillus Eboh 4 Apr 2024

File photo: President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa addresses the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, US, 21 September 2023. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

Zimbabwe scraps colonial-era death penalty law

Nyasha Chingono 7 Feb 2024

Source: International Criminal Court.

South Africa refers Israel to ICC for Gaza war crimes

16 Nov 2023

Former Central African Republic militia leader Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka attends the International Criminal Court hearings to determine the exact charges it will bring against him, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool/File Photo

ICC prosecutor drops charges against Central Africa militia leader

Bart Meijer 19 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters.

Grieving Gambian families take govt to court over mishandling of cough syrup

Edward McAllister 14 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

HIV alarm in Uganda as anti-gay law forces LGBT 'lockdown'

9 Jun 2023

Ugandan human rights lawyer and activist leads fellow activists to file a petition challenging the signing of the new Anti-homosexuality law by President Yoweri Museveni, at the constitution court in Kampala, Uganda, 29 May 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

File Photo: Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Islamist Ennahda party and former speaker of the parliament, during an interview with Reuters at his office in Tunis, Tunisia, 15 July 2022. Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisian judge sentences opposition leader Ghannouchi to year in prison

Tarek Amara 16 May 2023

File photo: Zimbabwean novelist, Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest book "This Mournable Body" has been nominated for a Booker Prize, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Harare, Zimbabwe, 4 August 2020. Reuters/MacDonald Dzirutwe

Zimbabwe prize-winning novelist acquitted over anti-government protest

Nyasha Chingono 8 May 2023

Paul Mackenzie, 50, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers of the members of the Good News International Church to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest, appears at Malindi Law Courts, in Malindi, Kenya, 2 May 2023. Reuters/Stringer

Kenyan cult leader appears in court after more than 100 followers die

George Obulutsa, Humphrey Malalo and Duncan Miriri 2 May 2023

Source: Wikipedia. Former US President, Donald Trump.

Trump arrested, first American president in history to face criminal charges

4 Apr 2023

Cars drive past Nigerian national flags in Abuja, Nigeria 12 June 2021. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Financial crime watchdog adds South Africa, Nigeria to "grey list"

Tassilo Hummel, Alexander Winning and Bhargav Acharya 24 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Founder of Egypt's Juhayna Food Industries and his son released from prison

Farah Saafan, Haithem Ahmed, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan 23 Jan 2023

Botswana's former President Ian Khama returns to his seat after giving a speech during the Botswana-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) in Pretoria, South Africa, 11 November 2016. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Botswana's ex-president Khama asks court to set aside arrest warrant

Brian Benza 6 Jan 2023

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Malawi vice president arrested over corruption, says graft watchdog

Frank Phiri and Bhargav Acharya 25 Nov 2022

Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in Nairobi, Kenya, File. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Kenyan court drops $60m corruption case against deputy president

Humphrey Malalo 11 Nov 2022

Burkina Faso court finds execs at Trevali mine guilty of involuntary manslaughter

Burkina Faso court finds execs at Trevali mine guilty of involuntary manslaughter

15 Sep 2022

Source: Reuters.

Flutterwave's accounts frozen in Kenya over money laundering claims

8 Jul 2022

Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh, who is also a presidential candidate for the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC), smiles during a rally in Banjul, Gambia, 29 November 2016. Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon

Gambian government says it will prosecute exiled ex-president Jammeh

Pap Saine 26 May 2022

Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, walks in handcuffs to a courtroom in Kigali, Rwanda 17 February 2021. Reuters/Clement Uwiringiyimana/File Photo

Prosecutor seeks life sentence for convicted 'Hotel Rwanda' hero

24 Jan 2022

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Niger police seize more than 200kg of cocaine from mayor's truck

David Lewis, Boureima Balima and Cooper Inveen 4 Jan 2022

Tunisia court sentences ex-president Marzouki to prison in absentia

Tunisia court sentences ex-president Marzouki to prison in absentia

Tarek Amara 23 Dec 2021

South Africa needs to tighten controls on substandard and counterfeit medicines. Here's how

David R. Katerere 25 Nov 2021

Nicholas Mwendwa, President of the Football Kenya Federation (FKF), reacts as he displays his handcuffs at the dock after arriving at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya 15 November 2021. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Kenya's top football official granted bail amid corruption investigation

Ayenat Mersie 16 Nov 2021

Nigeria bans Twitter in the country days after president's post is removed

Nigeria bans Twitter in the country days after president's post is removed

7 Jun 2021

The separation of powers is critical for good governance. Yellow Dog Productions/The Image Bank

South Sudan's chief justice is overstepping his bounds: why it matters for the rule of law

Mark Deng 13 May 2021

The move towards an open process for appointing judges is unprecedented in Lesotho. shutterstock

Choosing Lesotho's judges on merit should be only the start of judicial reforms

Hoolo 'Nyane 12 May 2021

Thomson Reuters and Juta announce strategic partnership to connect African lawyers to the world

Thomson Reuters and Juta announce strategic partnership to connect African lawyers to the world

Jackie Rhodes & Kamal Patel, Juta and Company 13 Apr 2021

Bushiri extradition request served on Malawi authorities

Bushiri extradition request served on Malawi authorities

7 Dec 2020

Government investigating Bushiris' escape

Government investigating Bushiris' escape

23 Nov 2020

Extradition process begins for Bushiris

Extradition process begins for Bushiris

16 Nov 2020

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The best interests of the child require detention to be used as a last resort. Shutterstock

How South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe measure up on child offenders

Rongedzayi Fambasayi & Admark Moyo 13 Aug 2020

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Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. EPA/Michael Kooren

Flirting with fire: African leaders and international law

Marco Bocchese 16 Jul 2019

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