Law & Order

Ugandan author and human rights activist, Norman Tumuhimbise, has been arrested ahead of his book launch, his lawyer said Friday,...

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...

Police brutality and impunity are nothing new in Kenya. They’re a legacy of British colonial rule when the role of...

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...

Campaigning Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege is urging his country's government to do more to bring war criminals to justice, alleging...

Controversy has dogged Kenya’s pursuit of a digital identity database for all children, citizens, and residents, intended to replace the...

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

The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has implicated officers based at Riruta police station in the murder of...

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

Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua was on Friday morning arrested from his Nyeri home. He was picked up by DCI officers...

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution issued a statement regarding the arrest of two High Court Judges; Said...

A serial killer who has brutally murdered five young girls after assaulting and defiling them, is currently in our custody. ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered swift investigations into the murder of Kenyan environmentalist Joanna Stuchburry. In a statement on Friday,...

Wanted policewoman Caroline Kangogo has shot herself dead at her parents' home in Elgeyo Marakwet County. Police said they narrowed...

Joseph Ngigi Kariuki, a Kenyan diaspora man who was a former employee at a Smithfield assisted living center was found...

U.S comedian Bill Cosby was freed from prison Wednesday, in a blow to the #MeToo movement, after a US court...

Four people were killed Monday morning in a suspected terror attack on a lorry transporting miraa on Rhamu-Elwak road in...

A flyover under construction in Kangemi, Nairobi County, collapsed on Monday, leaving at least three workers injured. A witness said at...