Ashley Abrahams, a 37-year-old homeless man, is one of over 100,000 regular heroin users in South Africa, according to a survey published in March by European project ENACT, which fights organised transnational crimes. Heroin has been wreaking havoc in South Africa’s cities and rural areas since the early 2000s, with a trafficking market generating about […]
A Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker was charged on Tuesday with subversion, his lawyer said, after a video surfaced where he purportedly said President Emmerson Mnangagwa would be overthrown before the next election in 2023. Mnangagwa, 76, has promised to break with the past ways of his authoritarian predecessor Robert Mugabe, who was removed after a 2017 […]
Nigerian Authorities have seized jewelry and a customized gold iphone worth 40 Million Dollars from former Minister of Petroleum in that country, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The order for the seizure was given by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, a High Court Judge. In granting the order, Justice Oweibo directed the applicant, EFCC, to publish the interim forfeiture order […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria have seized jewelry worth a whopping 40 Million Dollars from former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. A judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday, Friday, July 5th 2019 ruled that the items including a customized gold iphone be forfeited […]
Nine Nigerians have been confirmed dead in the airstrike, which struck a Libyan Migrant Detention Camp in Tripoli on Tuesday night. The foreign ministry in its statement in Abuja on Thursday, said the casualty figure were preliminary findings by a diplomatic mission that visited the hangar in the suburb of Tajoura. “A diplomatic mission confirmed that nine nigerian men […]
From Brussels, former president Laurent Gbagbo has taken taken up the reins of the Front Populaire Ivorien (FPI) again and dreams of the day when he can finally return home to Côte d’Ivoire. There are no hard feelings, simply a real desire for revenge. Laurent Gbagbo doesn’t go out much, but this was different: it […]
ALFRED AGBESI WOYOME V. REPUBLIC OF GHANA APPLICATION No. 001/2017 JUDGMENT [MERITS AND REPARATIONS] 28 June 2019 A DECISION OF THE AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS Date of Press Release: 28 June 2019 Arusha, 28 June 2019: Today, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Court or the Court) delivered […]
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has unanimously dismissed a case filed by beleaguered businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, against the state. The court said Woyome’s right to non-discrimination, right to equality before the law, equal protection before the law and his right to be heard by an impartial tribunal had all not been violated. […]
Three pupils were on Wednesday struck dead by lightning in Kibaale District, western Uganda. Police and residents identified the deceased as Robert Zabayo, a 14-year-old pupil at Kisalizi primary school, his brother Mbabazi Marina, 6 and a friend Moses Alinaitwe, 10. Zabayo and Mbabazi were children of Obed Byomugisa while Alinaitwe was Ayebale’s son, both […]
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha, Tanzania, has set Friday, June 28, to deliver judgment in the matter of Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome versus the Republic of Ghana. Mr Woyome applied to the Continental court arguing that his human rights were being trampled upon by Ghana in relation to the case […]
The President of Ghana Union of professional students, Justice Aboagye-Sarpong has graduated from Nasser leadership fellowship yesterday, 22nd July 2019 in Cairo, Egypt. The Nasser fellowship was organized by the Ministry of Youth and sports (Egypt) in conjunction with the African Youth bureau and Pan African Youth Union (PYU). The two weeks fellowship brought over […]
Former Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi has narrated how he was refused the privilege of touching the Quran when he requested for it. In a quote that has been attributed to the late former president, Mr. Morsi said he just wanted to touch and have a feel of the Holy Quran as he had already memorized […]
