Legal

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A court in Enugu, South East Nigeria, has ordered the United Kingdom to pay the sum of £20 million each to the families of coal miners killed by colonial authorities in November 1949,...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A court in Abidjan, capital of Ivory Coast on Friday sentenced a Malian politician, Mamadou Hawa Gassama to three years in prison for insulting Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara. Gassama, a member of junta-ruled...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A Kenyan court on Wednesday struck out a claim for compensation brought before it by the families and victims of the August 1998 bombing of the United States embassy in the capital, Nairobi....

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Rwanda has taken legal actions against the United Kingdom’s refusal to disburse payments under the now-scrapped, controversial agreement for Kigali to receive deported asylum seekers, a Rwandan official and UK media reports say....

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Norwegian police on Monday said they have filed charges against an oil firm and two executives in Norway over their involvement in alleged payment of millions of dollars in bribes to close family...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A South African court has dismissed an appeal by the country's heritage body, South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) to stop the export and sale of various artefacts connected to the late anti-apartheid...