Courts

A repeat shoplifter from a city supermarket was Wednesday jailed for one year or pay an alternative fine of Sh100,000....

DR Congo's top court on Monday tossed out a 13-year jail term handed to a former aide to President Felix...

South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma on Thursday lost another bid to delay his corruption trial, as a court rejected...

A South African court on Friday delayed the trial of the man accused of burning down parliament in January, saying...

A Ugandan court has issued an arrest warrant for an award-winning author who fled the country after being charged with insulting...

Ugandan author and activist Norman Tumuhimbise and a female journalist have been charged with cyber-stalking the country's president, their lawyer...

Raymond Zondo, whose three-year investigation detailed rampant corruption under former president Jacob Zuma, was Thursday named chief justice of South...

A Kenyan court on Thursday ordered 16 motorcycle taxi riders to be remanded in custody for a fortnight over a...

A top court in Gabon has dismissed a bid by opposition figures for a medical assessment of President Ali Bongo...

An award-winning Ugandan author who fled the country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has...

A Sierre Leone rebel on trial in Finland for war crimes in Liberia's bloody conflict has been released by the...

A popular Ghanaian activist who organized protests against President Nana Akufo-Addo's government was charged with treason on Monday after making...

Many challenges face South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the aftermath of riots last July that left more than 350...

More than 200 judges and lawyers in black robes protested Thursday outside the main court in the Tunisian capital after...

Uganda protested Thursday at an order by the UN's highest court for it to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo...

South African investigators Tuesday released a 646-page report detailing how rampant corruption under former president Jacob Zuma undermined both the...

South African ex-president Jacob Zuma was back in court on Monday in a fresh bid to replace the chief prosecutor...

A Rwandan court on Tuesday ruled that a prosecution appeal to increase a prison sentence against "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul...

Kenya's highest court began Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country's political system,...

The hero of "Hotel Rwanda" failed to appear in a Kigali court on Monday as state prosecutors sought to increase...

After careful reflection and following broad consultations with lawyers, human rights and justice defenders, progressive politicians, and Mr. Miguna himself,...

After spending the weekend in police cells, Mathira Member of Parliament Rigathi Gachagua was Monday morning arraigned at the Milimani...

Senate Speaker Kenneth Makelo Lusaka has been sued by a woman seeking Ksh.200,000 per month in support for her unborn...

A law set to take effect in the 2022 polls which requires contestants for Member of Parliament (MP) and Member...

Chief Justice Martha Koome has urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to swear in the six judges he failed to appoint from...

Supreme Court judge William Ouko has urged Chief Justice Martha Koome to use diplomatic skills to bring to an end...

A student from Ainamoi Secondary School on Wednesday hit his head teacher with a piece of wood which had a...

Lawyers' lobby LSK has demanded that President Uhuru Kenyatta appoints the six remaining judges omitted from his gazzeted list of...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected the names of four judges from the list of those whose who were nominated for...

A court has granted detectives 10 days to detain Shantel's murder suspects, pending conclusion of investigations. The two suspects were...