Legal

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Junta-led Niger has officially submitted its request to withdraw its membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC), nine months after announcing its intent to leave, calling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression". In...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Ugandan authorities have blocked a top Kenyan lawyer and former Justice Minister Martha Karua from entering the country and ordered her to return home, Uganda Law Society alleges. Karua on had arrived Entebbe...

By Emmanuel Nduka Nigeria's former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been acquitted of all bribery charges brought against her by British prosecutors, bringing an end to one of the most closely watched international corruption...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has filed an urgent application before a High Court, seeking to ​stop the parliament from commencing an impeachment probe, in connection with his "Farmgate" scandal. A court paper...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Israeli authorities have released the co-founder of Hamas group, following his detention for over two years without trial in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, his son announced. Hassan Yousef, 71, was “freed...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna US President Donald Trump is making plans to repatriate a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, ​a security fragile nation with a history of violence and high poverty rate,...